After reading about Moog, I looked up some of the musicians he worked with on YouTube. I saw clips of them back in their glory days hammering away at keyboards and playing with electronic sounds. Reading about Moog actually helped lead me back through parts of electronic music history since I just started looking into these people he worked with. And now, we have the same sounds available at our hands, but on a portable laptop instead of a big piece of equipment like these Arp synthesizers. Moog said something like he is the toolmaker and artists use his tools. So, the convergence of these two types of creative minds has unleashed fantastic results. Moog created the tools and then artists like Zappa, Pink Floyd, Sun Ra, Parliament-Funkadelic etc. used these tools to create music that would have not come into existence without his “tools”. So, the computer is just a continuation of this process. It is a tool that can be used by artists to create new results. On one side, people are creating programs like Ableton Live, Cecilia, and PD and on the other, artists are now using these tools to create what would have been unimaginable before.
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