Robert Moog

with Joan Thomson

Interviewer’s Home

February 2, 1979

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Biographical Information--building Theremins--Herb Deutsch’s concert--collaboration with Deutsch--Theremin kit--Myron Schafer electronic studio at Univ. of Toronto--Exhibiting at AES--growing up--Bronx Science--Eric Siday--producing equipment--Norwins--AES Convention--renting out electronic instruments to musicians in the recording industry--Mini Moog--being bought out by Norlin--Arp, Arp vs. Moog sythesizers--Arp learning from Moog--Alan Newman at Musitronics Morlin--personalities and conflicts--Polymoog--Micromoog--scientists misused by larger corporations--research and development at Norlin--digital organ--Les Paul--Beatles--rock groups--Eric Siday--synthesizer Moog built for him--Max Matthews--John Cage Variations Five at Lincoln Center--Cage, Tudor, Ussachevsky--most interesting things about electronic music in its history--Stockhausen--Mario Davidovsky--Columbia--Princeton--Morton Subotnick--Walter Carlos--Keith Jarrett--John Appleton--music Moog listens to--live performance vs. recorded sound--his teenagers--his parents--Max Jacobs.