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Moogfest is an annual music event
that honors the vision of Robert
Moog and his amazing musical
inventions that changed the course
of music. Moogfest is a 3-day,
multi-venue event held in Asheville,
NC. Robert Arthur Moog, commonly
called Bob Moog (May 23, 1934 –
August 21, 2005) was an American
pioneer of electronic music, best
known as the inventor of the Moog
synthesizer.
A
native of New York City, Moog
attended the Bronx High School of
Science in New York, graduating in
1952. Moog earned a bachelor's
degree in physics from Queens
College, New York in 1957, another
in electrical engineering from
Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in
engineering physics from Cornell
University. Moog's awards include
honorary doctorates from Polytechnic
Institute of New York University
(New York City) and Lycoming College
(Williamsport, Pennsylvania) During
his lifetime, Moog founded two
companies for manufacturing
electronic musical instruments. He
also worked as a consultant and vice
president for new product research
at Kurzweil Music Systems from 1984
to 1988, helping to develop the
Kurzweil K2000. He spent the early
1990s as a research professor of
music at the University of North
Carolina at Asheville.
Moog
received a Grammy Trustees Award for
lifetime achievement in 1970. In
2002, Moog was honored with a Grammy
Tech Award, and an honorary
doctorate degree from Berklee
College of Music. He gave an
enthusiastically-received lecture at
the 2004 New Interfaces for Musical
Expression (NIME-04), held in
Hamamatsu, Japan's "City of Musical
Instruments", in June, 2004. Moog
was the inspiration behind the 2004
film Moog.
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