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Started by Shana A, April 04, 2008, 05:42:48 PM

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April 04, 2008, 05:42:48 PM
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Posted by Sam Umland

http://60x50.blogspot.com/2008/04/trans.html

My friend Tim Lucas posted a comment in response to my previous entry, "His Master's Voice," containing a number of interesting ideas that prompted me to pursue yet another line of speculation regarding the meaning of the Moog synthesizer in sixties popular music. I'll admit to being especially intrigued by an observation made by Trevor Pinch and Frank Trocco in Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer (Harvard University Press, 2002), one which I cited in my earlier post:

The Moog was a machine that empowered . . . transformations. The [Moog] synthesizer . . . was not just another musical instrument; it was part of the sixties apparatus for transgression, transcendence, and transformation.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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