Analog Days The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer

Name: Analog Days The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer
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ISBN: 9780674016170

ISBN-10: 0674016173

ISBN-13: 9780674016170

Edition: 2002

Authors: Trevor Pinch, Frank Trocco

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Though ubiquitous today, available as a single microchip and found in any electronic device requiring sound, the synthesizer when it first appeared was truly revolutionary. Something radically new--an extraordinary rarity in musical culture--it was an instrument that used a genuinely new source of sound: electronics. How this came to be--how an engineering student at Cornell and an avant-garde musician working out of a storefront in California set this revolution in motion--is the story told for the first time in Analog Days, a book that explores the invention of the synthesizer and its impact on popular culture. The authors take us back to the heady days of the 1960s and early 1970s,…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 11/15/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 7.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Frank Trocco is Assistant Professor of Adult Baccalaureate Studies, Lesley University.



Preface


Introduction: Sculpting Sound



Subterranean Homesick Blues



Buchla's Box



Shaping the Synthesizer



The Funky Factory in Trumansburg



Haight-Ashbury's Psychedelic Sound



An Odd Couple in the Summer of Love



Switched-On Bach



In Love with a Machine



Music of My Mind



Live!



Hard-Wired--the Minimoog



Inventing the Market



Close Encounters with the ARP



From Daleks to the Dark Side of the Moon


Conclusion: Performance


Discography


Sources


Notes


Illustration Credits


Glossary


Index