Peter Matussek

Medienästhetik des Klangs

9. Automatisierung der Klangproduktion

9.2.7 Der Moog-Synthesizer (Robert Moog 1964)

Funktionsweise:

BBC-Dokumentation 1968. Quelle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usl_TvIFtG0

Das Album, das den Moog populär machte:

Wendy Carlos (fka Walter Carlos): Switched-on Bach (1968). © Columbia Masterworks Records

Geburt des 'Progressive Rock':

Robert Moog und Keith Emerson 1974. – Quelle: www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul14/articles/emerson-moog-modular.htm

Live-Demo:

Keith Emerson war einer der ersten Rockmusiker, die den Moog einsetzten (seit Lucky Man auf dem Album Emerson, Lake & Palmer, 1970). Die Aufnahme ist aus dem Jahr 2004. Quelle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxTShKhAm74&list=RDMRYx0ySEhjk&index=6

 

 

Weitere Genres, die sich dem Moog verdanken:

Psychedelic Rock und Electronic Rock (Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Pink Floyd

9.2.7 Der Synthesizer (Robert Moog 1964)

Inspired by composer Herbert A. Deutsch, Robert Moog designs and constructs the first Moog Modular synthesizer, which sparked a revolution in electronic music in the 1960s. He set up shop in a Trumansburg, N.Y., storefront from 1963 to 1971, and The Beatles, Mick Jagger, The Doors, The Monkees and Simon & Garfunkel were among the first customers for the then-$11,000 instrument. Moog went on to design dozens of instruments, including the Minimoog.

“More or less in my spare time I built two voltage-controlled oscillators and two voltage-controlled amplifiers, and some kind of controller that could turn the sounds on and off and change the pitch and rates of modulation. It might have [amounted to] a couple of doorbells. When Herb [Deutsch] came up . . . he just flipped when he heard what my breadboards could do. By the end of that session and the one that followed, together we had come up with the basics of a modular analog synthesizer (Robert Moog: 1963).

It was Walter Carlos's 1968 album 'Switched-On Bach' that catapulted Moog-produced music into popular culture.

Quellen:
http://www.cornell.edu/video/trevor-pinch-history-of-moog-synthesizer
http://www.moogmusic.com/legacy/bob-moog-timeline

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