[atlantaprog] Minis and Voyagers and Theremins Oh My!

You folks missed a great night at Eyedrum last night. The Moog film was an excellent portrait of a humble genius. His legacy to the music we love is immeasurable. High points of the film for prog-minded folks would have been the Emerson and Wakeman segments, but the bit with the cigarette smoking Theremin-woman was incredible, and Bernie Worrell was a hoot! Conspicuously absent from the film was any reference to Wendy Carlos, who's Switched On Bach was, probably more than anything else, responsible for Moog's ascendency to the ranks of "instrument-inventors-whose-name-has-become-synonomous-with-their- invnetion" (ie Les Paul, Leo Fender, Laurens Hammond). Bob did make a brief passing reference to SOB's impact, but if you blinked, you would have missed it. The rumor is that there was some sort of bad blood (lawsuits, etc) between Carlos and the filmmaker, but I couldn't say for sure. Of course, her omission left more room for everyone else, so it's all good.

The film is out on DVD now, so check it out if you can.

The second part of the eve featured quite a range of Moog madness. 14 performers, two Moog Voyagers, two Minimoogs, one Micromoog, one Moog Rogue, at least four Theremins, two laptops, one copy of Arturia's Moog Modular software, at least one Moogerfooger pedal, an ARP 2600, a few other keyboards and devices, one viola and one acoustic guitar - all of the above in various combinations with results than ranged from sublime to chaotic. All to a relatively sizable gathering of electronic music fans and various others.

Sorry (most of) you missed it :-(


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