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Moog [DVD + soundtrack Amazon]

This is not brand new but you MUST check out if you haven’t heard about this yet!! This is a film about Bob Moog.

Bob Moog (1934-2005) invented and built electronic musical instruments
for over half a century. From his workshops in upstate New York and
later in rural North Carolina, Moog shaped musical culture with some of
the most inspiring instruments ever created. Moog explains that he "can feel what’s going on in a piece of electronic equipment… it’s something between discovering and witnessing." And he is convinced that many musicians come to "feel" a circuit in a similar way. "They make contact."
In fact, musicians make such strong emotional connections with the
electronics inside a Moog synthesizer that Moog himself has reached
cult hero status. Moog not only made prodigious
contributions to modern music and culture, but he became a character
within an unfolding "American maverick inventor" mythology. Moog
certainly walked and talked the "mad scientist" part, complete with the
fly-away white hair, intense eyes, eccentric mannerisms and a head full
of stories.

This feature documentary film – by filmmaker/musician Hans Fjellestad and the producer team behind Frontier Life (2002) – explores Moog’s collaborations with musicians over the years, and his ideas about creativity, design, interactivity and spirituality. The film was shot on location in Asheville, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tokyo and London, featuring appearances by Keith Emerson, Walter Sear, Gershon Kinsgley, Jean-Jacques Perrey & Luke Vibert, Rick Wakeman, DJ Spooky, Herb Deutsch, Bernie Worrell, Pamelia Kurstin, Tino Corp. with Charlie Clouser, Money Mark, Mix Master Mike, and an eclectic mix of performers.

Artists such as Stereolab, Meat Beat Manifesto, Tortoise, Money Mark, Luke Vibert & Jean-Jacques Perrey, 33, Moog Cookbook, Plastiq Phantom, Psilonaut, Bernie Worrell & Bootsy Collins, Roger O’Donnell, The Album Leaf, Pete Devriese, Bostich, Charlie Clouser, Baiyon, Suzanne Ciani, Gershon Kingsley, Doug McKechnie, Electric Skychurch and others created original music produced on Moog instruments for the soundtrack.

Additional discoveries like vintage films borrowed from dusty private collections round out this stylized, wonderfully strange story of a true American maverick and a true original.