Analog Days

The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer

Trevor Pinch

Frank Trocco

  • 2002 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Second Place Winner Popular Culture Category

Foreword by Robert Moog

Preface

Introduction: Sculpting Sound

1. Subterranean Homesick Blues

2. Buchla's Box

3. Shaping the Synthesizer

4. The Funky Factory in Trumansburg

5. Haight-Asbury's Psychedelic Sound

6. An Odd Couple in the Summer of Love

7. Switched-On Bach

8. In Love with a Machine

9. Music of My Mind

10. Live!

11. Hard-Wired-the Minimoog

12. Inventing the Market

13. Close Encounters with the ARP

14. From Daleks to the Dark Side of the Moon

Conclusion: Performance

Discography

Sources

Notes

Glossary

Index

  • Cover: Analog Days
  • A photo of the author

Trevor Pinch is Professor and Chairperson of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University.

Frank Trocco is Assistant Professor of Adult Baccalaureate Studies, Lesley University.