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Chicago Today Magazine
July 9, 1972
The Synthesizer Sound
By Roderick Nordell
From tuba to piccolo at the flip of a switch In Milan, Italy, a dancer turns movement into sound by performing before a camera whose film has been replaced by photocells that feed into an electronic music synthesizer.
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Chicago Reader
June 30, 1972
Moog Muses: an interview with the father of synthesizer
Synthesizer devotees have alienated lots of musicians with vague claims that the synthesizer is not an instrument but rather- as it is capable of producing any tone in the musical spectrum- the musical instrument.
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Tonawanda News Frontier
September 9, 1972
Multi-charmed music to soothe the space-age breast
By John Kulda
AT THE END of a winding, roughly paved road in the Village of Williamsville, surrounded by wheat fields, and an old, low profile warehouse, is the electronic nerve center of a world-wide revolution that is changing the art of musical composition.
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STUDENT LIFE (Washington University)
September 29, 1972
Music depends on technology
By Steve Braitman
Robert Moog, creator of the Moog synthesizer, addressed a full graham Chapel Wednesday on the development of electronic music and trends for the future. He was introduced by John Perkins, chairman of the department of Music.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 1, 1972
The Synthesizer Wants YOU
By Frank Peters
THE SYNTHESIZER business is so young that three years ago takes us back to its infancy. In 1969 the "Switched-On Bach" record was hitting the country with the force of a tropical sunrise and Robert Moog followed the shock wave around, explaining the wonderful new musical instrument he had put together.
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El Paso Herald Post
December 4, 1972
Synthesizers Prove Symphonic Success
It was Family Day at the afternoon performance of the El Paso Symphony Orchestra yesterday in Liberty Hall when computers and synthesizers took their place alongside traditional musical instruments
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Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
December 10, 1972
The Moog's in Vogue- And the man who made it all happen is living quietly in Williamsville, hoping he's not really a Dr. Frankenstein
By Theodore Price
During the golden age of Stradivari's superbly crafted violins, more than 250 years ago, Prince Ferdinand de Medici recruited a harpsichord maker for his Florentine court.
Bartolomeo Cristofori developed a keyboard instrument with "piano e forte" (soft and loud) capabilities. Since 1709, that new invention has inveigled its way into every drawing room and sidewalk bistro on earth.
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