Robert Moog
Robert Moog
Robert Arthur "Bob" Moog, founder of Moog Music, was an American engineer and pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionInventor
Date of Birth23 May 1934
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
musicians
I'm an engineer, ... I see myself as a toolmaker, and the musicians are my customers. They use the tools.
final weeks
In the final weeks of his life, he was bedridden,
although artistic call certainly designers electronic high instrument maybe rather technology tools
It's certainly more than a technological activity, although we instrument designers certainly use electronic technology as a design tool. But I wouldn't call it an artistic activity. We're toolmakers. Making tools is a craft, maybe even a high craft. I'd say that we are craftsmen rather than artists.
brought changed electronic hear masses music
He brought electronic music to the masses and changed the way we hear music.
machines down-and information
When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.
together garbage sound
One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.
order firsts musician
I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer.
levels energy consciousness
Everything has some consciousness, and we tap into that. It is about energy at its most basic level.
dad thinking ties
To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off.
tools use musician
I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.
knowing use crafts
Part of what I do is a craft, but part of what I do is a science. And I guess the craft comes in knowing what science to use and what science not to use.
cat thinking long
I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.
opportunity thinking inspire
What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.
simple people kitchen
Back in the 40s and early 50s, building simple electronic projects was a popular hobby of many people. Back then, you could buy, you know, a few parts and - with tubes and build something on your kitchen table, and it would actually work.