Robert Moog: Father of the Synthesizer Gets Google Doodle

Bob Moog: Father of Electronic Music

Google Australia is celebrating the birthday of Robert Moog with a playable Moog synthesizer. You can twiddle the knobs, play the keys, and record/play back what you've just churned out.

• Google Australia: Celebrating Robert Moog
  

Hopefully the rest of the world's Google landing pages will follow suit. Once you're done tapping into your inner Brian Eno, you can check out Moog, a documentary on Bob Moog's work and influence.

Already a theremin manufacturer, Robert Moog invented one of the world's first electronic instruments: his Moog synthesizer is definitely the most well-known. This is because, unlike his earlier competitors, Robert Moog fitted his synths with a piano-like keyboard interface. Those raised on 80's syth riffs take this as a no-brainer, but, in the mid-1960s, it was quite the opposite.

Born May 23, 1934, Robert Moog died from a brain tumor on August 21, 2005. "Moog" rhymes with "vogue", by the way.

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