Analog days : the invention and impact of the Moog synthesizer / Trevor Pinch and Frank Trocco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pinch, Trevor, 1952-2021.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Trocco, Frank.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moog synthesizer.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xv, 368 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.

Summary:

The authors take readers back to the heady days of the 1960s and early 1970s, when the technology was analog, the synthesizer was an experimental instrument, and synthesizer concerts could and did turn into happenings. Includes interviews with synthesizer pioneers--Robert Moog and Don Buchla to musicians Brian Eno, Pete Townshend, and Keith Emerson. Illustrations.

Contents:

Introduction: Sculpting Sound 1

1. Subterranean Homesick Blues 12

2. Buchla's Box 32

3. Shaping the Synthesizer 53

4. The Funky Factory in Trumansburg 70

5. Haight-Ashbury's Psychedelic Sound 89

6. An Odd Couple in the Summer of Love 107

7. Switched-On Bach 131

8. In Love with a Machine 155

9. Music of My Mind 171

10. Live! 187

11. Hard-Wired

the Minimoog 214

12. Inventing the Market 237

13. Close Encounters with the ARP 257

14. From Daleks to the Dark Side of the Moon 276

Conclusion: Performance 302.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [332]-353), discography and index.

ISBN:

0674008898

OCLC:

50115753