The electric sound of a synthesizer reverberates in the music of The Beatles and the Rolling Stones thanks to the innovations of Grammy-award winning Robert Moog Ph.D. ’64. Last week, the University ...

Robert Moog, who died Sunday at 71, was an electronics tinker who invented and named the Moog synthesizer, the touchstone for a revolution in sound production that has reached every corner of music.

The organ as we know it dates from the 14th century, Bartolomeo Cristofori invented the piano in 1709, and Robert Moog developed his first synthesizer prototype in 1964. Each left music a completely ...

It's been said that the Moog synthesizer is as important to popular music as the electric guitar. Robert Moog, a pioneer in the world of electronic music, died Sunday at age 71. He had been known to ...

When I woke this morning to find a funky-looking 24-key Moog synthesizer staring at me from just above Google’s homepage search box, I knew exactly what I’d be writing about. I’ve played the piano ...

Modern technology has spawned a new kind of instrument maker. The old craftsmen of music worked with wood, strings and valves; the new ones hook up wires, transistors and wave generators. The sounds ...

Gershon Kingsley, a composer who brought electronic sounds into popular music and wrote the enduring instrumental hit “Pop Corn,” died Dec. 10 at his home in Manhattan. He was 97. In the 1960s, ...