[sdiy] A Memory

[Torbjörn Hörnfeldt]

Doug (and all), I don't know how well-known this is in the sdiy-
community, but Dr. Bob received the Polar Music Prize in 2001. He
shared it with K-H Stockhausen and B Bacharach.

http://www.polarmusicprize.se/

I believe Magnus D may have been present at the ceremony (?).

nTH

> 
> From: DWa2898572 at aol.com
> Date: 2005/08/23 ti PM 05:34:47 CEST
> To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Ämne: [sdiy] A Memory
> 
>   I became aware of Electronic music in the spring of 1967, mainly as an 
> outgrowth of listening to Rock/Soul/R &B, I was just 13. That summer I was taken 
> to the Montreal World's Fair, and in the entrance to the US Pavilion stood the 
> first Moog Synthesizer I'd ever seen, and was knocked over completely. I'd 
> just begun studying Saxophone and Flute, and was a child of the SpaceAge, so this 
> thing captivated me! After a demonstration, I sought out a bugged Dr. Moog 
> with a thousand silly Teenage questions, and his response was to "study Music, 
> Mathematics and  prepare for a career in Electronics. I bugged him for 3 days, 
> and never got to see the other exhibits at the fair because THIS WAS IT! THE 
> FUTURE OF MUSIC was the Moog. 
>   That fall and spring, I hunted down every Electronic Music recording I 
> could find,  and began to be really involved with "Progressive Rock" music; my 
> musical education proceeded, and finally I was able in 1979 to get my hands on a 
> Synthesizer, and finally returned to university to finish my BSEE at age 52! 
> I've been building Synths since 1986, and still give full credit to Dr. Moog 
> for the inspiration.
>   I'm just fortunate to have lived during a time when Musical genius was at a 
> high level,(Coltrane, Hendrix, Miles, Sun Ra, Duke, Stockhausen, Moog) and 
> experimentation seemed a lot less risky than now! Bob Moog was never afraid to 
> experiment, and his influence on Music Technology is profound, and I'll honor 
> him by adopting "VOLTS-PER-OCTAVE" as a "Moog" in further circuit construction, 
> and on my schematics
> 
>                                                                               
>    Doug
> 
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