Moogfest 2007 in NYC -- the first annual Moogfest Symposium

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The Bob Moog Foundation has partnered with Moogfest to create the first annual Moogfest Symposium. At the Symposium, which takes place at 8pm on Thursday September 20, 2007 at Columbia University, luminaries in the field of electronic music will gather to discuss Bobs legacy as it pertains to their own work and they will be taking questions from the audience. Symposium panel members include:

 

Herbert Deutsch collaborator on the development of the first Moog synthesizer; composer, musician and performer; twice Chair of the Music Department at Hofstra University and former Director of Sales and Marketing at Moog Music, Inc.

 

Gershon Kingsley musician and composer who led the Moog Quartet, which performed around the country and at Carnegie Hall. Best known for his catchy melody Popcorn, which is part of his Music to Moog By album, Mr. Kinglsey has recorded many Moog Albums, including The In Sound From Way Out with Jean-Jaques Perry and his most recent addition God is a Moog.

 

Joel Chadabe composer, performer and pioneer in the development of interactive music systems. Mr. Chadabe has had a lifelong career in academia and has lectured, performed and recorded extensively. He is currently Professor Emeritus at State University of New York at Albany; Director of the Computer Music Studio at Manhattan School of Music Visiting Faculty at New York University. Joel is the President of the Electronic Music Foundation and the author of Electric Sound: The Past and Promise of Electronic Music.

 

John Eaton Avant garde opera composer and performer and Professor Emeritus of Music Composition at the University of Chicago, where he taught for 10 years. He also taught at Indiana University (Bloomington) for 20. Mr. Eaton is a McArthur Fellow who, over a 20 year collaboration with Dr. Moog, created the Eaton-Moog Multi-Touch Sensitive Keyboard. He currently serves as the Composer and Artistic Director for the Pocket Opera Players, based in New York City.

 

David Borden musician, composer and performer; played and tested early Moog Modulars in Bob Moogs studio in Trumansburg, NY. Founder of Mother Mallards Portable Masterpiece, the first Moog synthesizer ensemble. Retired Director of the Digital Music Program at Cornell University, where he taught for 37 years.

 

Trevor Pinch Author of Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Syntheziser and professor and Chairperson of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell Univeristy.

 

Moogfest and the Bob Moog Foundation are proud and honored to be

sponsoring an event that pulls together Bobs lifelong friends and colleagues and the vast amount of experiences and knowledge that they share. This promises to be a very special evening.

 

Please join us at:

 

Center Room

3rd Floor, Prentis Hall

632 West 125th Street

Columbia University

 

For directions online, please see:

http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/contact/index.html

 

 

For those of you who live in the New York City area, we hope to see you at the Symposium and at Moogfest. Well be checking in with the rest of you to let you know how it all went.

 

Until then-

The Bob Moog Foundation