May 23 - Robert Moog (The Musical Birthday Series)

Robert Moog (23  May 1934 – 21 August 2005) invented and marketed the famous Moog synthesizer.

Ode to Synthesis

I sing in praise of Robert Moog

Whose synthesizer had a vogue

With rockers and the avant-garde.

He’s easy now to disregard

When basic apps on any phone

Can conjure up a world of tone.

But let’s remember, he’s the one,

Who, if his work had not been done,

We couldn’t have GarageBand fun.

He showed the way, this engineer,

Inventor, seer, pioneer.

So celebrate a maverick rogue,

And sing the praise of Robert Moog!