Moog Music Inc is an American synthesizer company based in Asheville, North Carolina.
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15 Facts About Moog Music
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Moog Music manages Moogfest, a pioneering electronic music and music technology festival in Durham, NC.
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In 1963, Moog met experimental composer Herbert Deutsch at a music education conference in Rochester, New York, after Deutsch had built a theremin following Moog's design.
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Moog Music ran deep into debt, turning a profit only one year of its existence – 1969, following the 'Switched-On' sensation ignited by Carlos.
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Moog Music, Inc was ultimately sold to Norlin Industries in 1973.
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In 1977, once his contract with Norlin expired, Robert Moog Music officially left the company to pursue his own ventures, founding the firm Big Briar.
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Moog Music began contract manufacturing in 1981 in various other industries, including subway system repairs and air conditioning systems.
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Moog Music attempted to pivot to produce digital synthesizers, but declared bankruptcy in 1987.
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In 1994, the Moog Music trademark expired and was purchased by Don Martin; a legal battle ensued in 2000 over ownership of the name, and it was returned to Robert Moog in 2002.
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Moog Music moved to Asheville, North Carolina, and continued its development of products created under Robert Moog's former company Big Briar, such as the Moogerfooger pedals and theremins, as well as introducing numerous new products such as the Minimoog Voyager, Little Phatty, Sub 37, and Mother 32 some of which continue to be produced and sold today.
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Moog Music has seen fiscal growth and increased interest due in part to the analog revival, evidenced by the introduction of so many new analog synthesizers being released by companies such as Moog, Korg, Arturia, and Dave Smith Instruments, that has continued climbing to reach a high point in the 2010s.
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Moog Music has in recent years seen the results of a strong incentive to introduce new products to meet the demands generated by today's market and have produced limited edition reissues of historic Moog synthesizers as well as reaching out into the emerging Eurorack synthesizer market with instruments such as semi-modular synthesizers, the Mother 32, DFAM, Grandmother, Matriarch, and Subharmonicon.
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Moog Music went on to present the synthesizer at the 1964 Audio Engineering Society conference, where it rapidly gained notoriety.
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The Moog saw some measure of success as experimental artists as Paul Beaver, Suzanne Ciani, and David Borden began to employ it in their work, and the rise of psychedelic rock in the 1960s saw numerous commercial artists employ the Moog in their music, including the Byrds, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the Doors.
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In 2017, Moog Music unveiled the DFAM at Moogfest as a successor to the Mother-32 series of Eurorack-friendly semi-modular synthesizers.
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