Switched On: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution
Autor Albert Glinskyen Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 noi 2022
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780197642078
ISBN-10: 0197642071
Pagini: 496
Ilustrații: 60 b&w halftones
Dimensiuni: 243 x 164 x 41 mm
Greutate: 0.86 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0197642071
Pagini: 496
Ilustrații: 60 b&w halftones
Dimensiuni: 243 x 164 x 41 mm
Greutate: 0.86 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
This is the first compete biography of Bob Moog, and it is entertaining and meticulously assembled, revealing an impressively detailed impression of the man and his life's work... Switched On provides insights into the electronic sound revolution by going deep into the technical, practical, and person details of one of the era's most innovative and influential figures. This is surely destined to become an essential point of reference for scholars and researchers interested in the history of music technology.
The right biography at the right time...a noteworthy book
A thorough, absorbing dive...Glinsky's ability to keep this massive show on the road, including various and sundry side trips, is impressive...what will remain in the memory is an absorbing, inspiring, sometimes amusing portrait of one of the great innovators of the 20th century.
My music book of the year is Albert Glinsky's wonderfully readable and informative biography, Switched On: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution.
In his 480 page and detailed biography, the American author Albert Glinsky illustrates how Robert Arthur Moog, born in New York in 1934, had a soft spot for technology even as a child.
Switched On is a riveting account not just of the development of the synthesizer, but also a journey of the man. It intimately immerses readers into the life of the determined trailblazer and the subsequent struggles affiliated with creation and change.
[an] absorbing new biography .... a towering tribute
an inspiring read
Jazz to Read By: Top Seven recommended holiday books of 2022
Glinsky's book tells the full story, covering every up and every down in a thoroughly entertaining, enjoyable read.
a book to savour and return to
Switched On makes a significant contribution to the history of American music in the 20th century.
Like Moog's eponymous instrument, Glinsky takes the raw information and material of Bob Moog's life, and skillfully composes it into a beautiful textual symphony that evokes the man (and the music's) complicated humanity. Switched On is a sonic literary triumph!
Albert Glinsky paints an amazing saga of a musical inventor who changed the music world, but who could never manage to find himself a stable position within it. In lively and fast-paced prose, Glinsky draws myriad connections that sparked beneath the surface of the music world in the 1950s and '60s among a kaleidoscopic variety of names, some famous, some influential behind the scenes. In so doing, he does for Robert Moog what his earlier book did for Leon Theremin: make a rather shadowy figure look like the secret center of the universe for rock music, the avant-garde, the counterculture, and the commercial music business.
Bob Moog. Iconic name, iconic man. His revolutionary instrument made it possible for me to find my true voice. I am forever thankful to him. And that's why I'm very excited about Switched On for shining a light on this giant of musical history.
I loved the book! Based on superb research into the history of the cloak and dagger era that defined the emergence of analog electronic music instruments and the challenges and misunderstandings of what this new technology meant, Glinsky gives us the very human portrait of a man who embodied the intersection of invention, musical culture, business and destiny. I lived through this era, but to see it etched in such defining detail untangles all the loose ends of a sometimes painful story. Switched On is a page-turner.
In Switched On, Albert Glinsky shows the character and brilliance of Bob Moog — a wry wizard of applying science to music, and the creator of tones and tools now foundational to our culture. Tracing Moog's technical advances in close but accessible detail, Glinsky gives an enlightening view of one of the twentieth century's most important musical innovators.
The right biography at the right time...a noteworthy book
A thorough, absorbing dive...Glinsky's ability to keep this massive show on the road, including various and sundry side trips, is impressive...what will remain in the memory is an absorbing, inspiring, sometimes amusing portrait of one of the great innovators of the 20th century.
My music book of the year is Albert Glinsky's wonderfully readable and informative biography, Switched On: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution.
In his 480 page and detailed biography, the American author Albert Glinsky illustrates how Robert Arthur Moog, born in New York in 1934, had a soft spot for technology even as a child.
Switched On is a riveting account not just of the development of the synthesizer, but also a journey of the man. It intimately immerses readers into the life of the determined trailblazer and the subsequent struggles affiliated with creation and change.
[an] absorbing new biography .... a towering tribute
an inspiring read
Jazz to Read By: Top Seven recommended holiday books of 2022
Glinsky's book tells the full story, covering every up and every down in a thoroughly entertaining, enjoyable read.
a book to savour and return to
Switched On makes a significant contribution to the history of American music in the 20th century.
Like Moog's eponymous instrument, Glinsky takes the raw information and material of Bob Moog's life, and skillfully composes it into a beautiful textual symphony that evokes the man (and the music's) complicated humanity. Switched On is a sonic literary triumph!
Albert Glinsky paints an amazing saga of a musical inventor who changed the music world, but who could never manage to find himself a stable position within it. In lively and fast-paced prose, Glinsky draws myriad connections that sparked beneath the surface of the music world in the 1950s and '60s among a kaleidoscopic variety of names, some famous, some influential behind the scenes. In so doing, he does for Robert Moog what his earlier book did for Leon Theremin: make a rather shadowy figure look like the secret center of the universe for rock music, the avant-garde, the counterculture, and the commercial music business.
Bob Moog. Iconic name, iconic man. His revolutionary instrument made it possible for me to find my true voice. I am forever thankful to him. And that's why I'm very excited about Switched On for shining a light on this giant of musical history.
I loved the book! Based on superb research into the history of the cloak and dagger era that defined the emergence of analog electronic music instruments and the challenges and misunderstandings of what this new technology meant, Glinsky gives us the very human portrait of a man who embodied the intersection of invention, musical culture, business and destiny. I lived through this era, but to see it etched in such defining detail untangles all the loose ends of a sometimes painful story. Switched On is a page-turner.
In Switched On, Albert Glinsky shows the character and brilliance of Bob Moog — a wry wizard of applying science to music, and the creator of tones and tools now foundational to our culture. Tracing Moog's technical advances in close but accessible detail, Glinsky gives an enlightening view of one of the twentieth century's most important musical innovators.
Notă biografică
Albert Glinsky is an American composer and author. His music has been performed internationally and he holds honors and awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Endowment for the Arts, among others. He was educated at The Juilliard School and New York University. His music ranges from acoustic to electronic works. His book, Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage, with a foreword by Bob Moog, is the standard work on Leon Theremin, and won the 2001 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. Glinsky is a frequent lecturer and appears regularly on television, radio, and podcasts. www.albertglinsky.com