Moog

If the word "Moog" conjures visions of a long-haired Keith Emerson noodling endlessly on a synthesizer keyboard attached to a what looks like a telephone switchboard, this short documentary might teach you a thing or two about the electronic instrument that revolutionized the sound of modern music. First, "moog" rhymes with "rogue." Secondly, it's the last name of the instrument's visionary creator, Robert Moog, who introduced his first synthesizer in 1964. Greeted with suspicion and even outright hostility by traditionalists who suspected Moog of engineering the end of music as they knew it, the instrument found favor first among music houses specializing in TV and ...