Stephen E. Dinehart's IMD Blog

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I've had Wendy Carlos's The Well-Tempered Synthesizer playing in my car for the last few weeks. Moving, timeless stuff.

I am glad to have shared an egg sandwich with Bob Moog, in the groundfloor cafeteria of the ATR, outside of Kyoto. To my suprise, we were both invited to give a talk that afternoon (Bob Moog was the keynote speaker at the NIME conference where I had presented a paper on my video instrument). Bob had ordered an egg sandwich that looked much tastier than my ham & cheese so he accepted a barter. He was very quiet and modest. Very straightforward and practical, he insisted that he was just an instrument-maker, not a researcher or a theorist - that he had always done this for pleasure. Yet the sound world around us would be completely different had he not existed. The last time I saw Bob was a few months later, in a club in Barcelona off the Ramblas called "Club Moog", where he was invited during Sonar for some sort of honorary reception - most of the ravers who used to go to that club had no idea that it was named after this old American engineer. I could never have told he had brain cancer. He will be missed.