{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Robert Moog, pioneering inventor of the Moog synthesizer. (Photo by Jack Robinson, 1970) Check this blog!", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/670674355614892032/", "html": "<img src=\"/media/555a8c87cfeb9a8b037b6606c44d1e6395cf56e3_fc3052e45077.jpg\" />\n<p><a href=\"https://aiiaiiiyo.com/post/669533776082305024/robert-moog-pioneering-inventor-of-the-moog\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">aiiaiiiyo</a>:</p><blockquote><p>Robert Moog, pioneering inventor of the Moog synthesizer. (Photo by Jack Robinson, 1970) <a href=\"http://aiiaiiiyo.com\" target=\"_blank\">Check this blog!</a></p></blockquote>\n<p>Robert Moog was in the orbit of Cornell University when he made his synthesizer, and decades later I took an &ldquo;Introduction to Music Theory through Digital Music Technology&rdquo; course from a guy who as an undergraduate had been the original beta tester </p><p>He was kind of a space case and I didn&rsquo;t really learn much music theory, but I got to monkey around in labs of tracker/ReBirth/sampler Macs with racks full of MOTU units (that constantly lost track of how to communicate with each other) Anyway, reportedly Moog and his co-lead got all excited that it was finally done, called him in to try it out, and the first thing he did was patch a cable wrong and the unit caught fire.</p>", "thumbnail_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/media/555a8c87cfeb9a8b037b6606c44d1e6395cf56e3_fc3052e45077.jpg", "thumbnail_width": 900, "thumbnail_height": 894}