Have you opened Google.com today? Before typing a keyword in the search engine Google, you can try to put the cursor on an electronic piano keyboard that appears in decorative Google logo today. The keys can be read, as you play the electronic piano.
Today (05/23/2012), Google decorative logo (Doodle) was designed to commemorate the anniversary of the inventor of electronic music, namely Robert Moog. He was born on May 23, 1934. The man who has a long name Robert Arthur Moog was an inventor of electronic music with the terms of the famous Moog Synthesizer.
Electronic musical instruments ever created by him are Minimoog Model D, Minimog Voyager, Little Phatty, Moog Taurus, Bass Pedals, Moog Miniature and the Moogerfooger line of effects pedals. Now, his electronic music has even entered into the device with iOS operating system, namely the Animog IOS app.
Moog completed his education at The Bronx High School of Science at New York (1952). He continued his education at Queens College in New York and earned his Physics degree in 1957. Beside that, he also earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University. He also continued his education and obtained his PhD as a technician Physics from Cornell University. Moog also received honorary degrees from the Polytechnic Institute of doctorares New York University and Lycoming College (Williamsport, Pennsylvania).
During his lifetime, Moog founded two companies that have been manufacturing electronic musical instrument. He also worked as a consultant and vice president for research of new products in Kurzwell Music Systems since 1988 and helped build the product Kurzwell K2000. He spent the 1990's as a music professor at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.
Moog received a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Trustees Award in 1970. In 2002, he was awarded the Special Merit or Technical Grammy Award and received a honorary doctorate degree from Barklee College of Music.
Moog has two wives and four children. His first wife, Shirleigh Moog, married in 1958 and gave her three daughters, Laura Moog Lanier, Michelle Moog-Koussa, and Renee Moog, and a son, Matthew Moog. He later divorced and married again with Ileana Grams, a professor of philosophy, but do not have children until his death. In her previous marriage, Ileana has no children, so Moog's stepdaughter who later gave him five grandchildren.
Today (05/23/2012), Google decorative logo (Doodle) was designed to commemorate the anniversary of the inventor of electronic music, namely Robert Moog. He was born on May 23, 1934. The man who has a long name Robert Arthur Moog was an inventor of electronic music with the terms of the famous Moog Synthesizer.
Electronic musical instruments ever created by him are Minimoog Model D, Minimog Voyager, Little Phatty, Moog Taurus, Bass Pedals, Moog Miniature and the Moogerfooger line of effects pedals. Now, his electronic music has even entered into the device with iOS operating system, namely the Animog IOS app.
Moog completed his education at The Bronx High School of Science at New York (1952). He continued his education at Queens College in New York and earned his Physics degree in 1957. Beside that, he also earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University. He also continued his education and obtained his PhD as a technician Physics from Cornell University. Moog also received honorary degrees from the Polytechnic Institute of doctorares New York University and Lycoming College (Williamsport, Pennsylvania).
During his lifetime, Moog founded two companies that have been manufacturing electronic musical instrument. He also worked as a consultant and vice president for research of new products in Kurzwell Music Systems since 1988 and helped build the product Kurzwell K2000. He spent the 1990's as a music professor at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.
Moog received a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Trustees Award in 1970. In 2002, he was awarded the Special Merit or Technical Grammy Award and received a honorary doctorate degree from Barklee College of Music.
Moog has two wives and four children. His first wife, Shirleigh Moog, married in 1958 and gave her three daughters, Laura Moog Lanier, Michelle Moog-Koussa, and Renee Moog, and a son, Matthew Moog. He later divorced and married again with Ileana Grams, a professor of philosophy, but do not have children until his death. In her previous marriage, Ileana has no children, so Moog's stepdaughter who later gave him five grandchildren.
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