Home

Archives

Photo Gallery

Contact




Join The Bob Moog Fund for Electronic Music
Email:
 

Bob Moog Memorial Foundation for Electronic MusicMoog Music is a vibrant and growing company located in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North CarolinaThis website provides a glimpse into the history of MOOG, a leading Designer and Manufacturer of Electronic Music Instrumentation from 1953 to 1993 MOOG was shot on location in Asheville, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tokyo and London, and features interviews and appearances by Stereolab, Keith Emerson, Walter Sear and others

Archives - 1990

Archives Main | 1990

 

SOURCE BOOK

Spring 1990


ROBO BEETHOVEN

In the spring of 1957 a couple of Bell Telephone Laboratories scientists, Max V. Mathews and John R. Pierce, went to a piano recital at a nearby New Jersey college. The music-lovers were unimpressed by parts of the performance that night, and as they left, one said to the other, half-jokingly, "The computer can do better than this."

read this article