May 23rd is celebrated as International Synthesizer Day. It commemorates the birth anniversary of Bob Moog (rhymes with vogue), who is credited as being one of the early pioneers of synthesizer design ...

Digital electronics has profoundly changed musical instrument design. From toy keyboards to performance-grade pianos, synthesizers, and drum sets, to name a few, instruments that once would have been ...

Music Time demonstrates some of the extraordinary things you can do with an electronic drum synthesizer. Originally broadcast 25 February 1980. Explore more and follow BBC Archive. 1980: Electronic ...

Created by Erica Synths & Richie Hawtin, Bullfrog is an educational electronic music instrument designed to captivate and inspire youth and professionals alike. Bullfrog invites you to unlock ...

Who doesn’t love the synthesizer? Once considered the newest, hippest piece of tech to enter the world of music, this electronic musical instrument has evolved and changed quite a bit through the ...

Robert Moog, the creator of the electronic music synthesizer that bears his name and that became ubiquitous among experimental composers as well as rock musicians in the 1960s and 1970s, died on ...

In this paper we examine the sociological history of the Moog and Buchla music synthesizers. These electronic instruments were developed in the mid-1960s. We demonstrate how relevant social groups ...