timeline

1925 ARP inventor Alan Robert Pearlman born in New York City
				1934 Moog inventor Bob Moog born
1937 Buchla Box inventor Don Buchla born in Southgate, California
				1939 Switched-On Bach performer Wendy Carlos born (named Walter at birth, she later changes her name and sexual identity)
October 1952 One of the first tape music concerts is held at MOMA, foreshadowing the early synthesizer concerts there
				June 1958 Bob Moog marries Shirley May Leigh (known as Shirleigh)
1961 Moog publishes an article in Electronics World describing a fully portable transistorized theremin--he sold over a thousand $50 kits for his Melodia theremin
				1963 Moog rents a storefront, hires a couple of people, and sets up R. A. Moog Co. in Trumansburg near Ithaca--though the company would eventually be known for its synthsizers, theremin kits and "junk" guitar amps were its early mainstay
Winter 1963 Moog meets young experimental composer Herb Deutsch, who plays a crucial role in exposing Moog to new music and encourages him to begin work on the Moog synthesizer
				July 1964 Deutsch visits Moog and they work together refining and rebuilding Moog circuits, using a doorbell button as an early controller--later the keyboard will become an integral part of the Moog's success
Summer 1964 Moog's first prototype is finished
				Late Summer 1964 Moog and Deutsch go to University of Toronto Electronic Music Studio to demonstrate what they had made...the composers were impressed and gave Moog the important idea of developing a filter module, making the Moog sound even more interesting
October 1964 Moog gets a telephone call from Jacqueline Harvey of the Audio Engineering Society, inviting him to attend their annual convention of engineers in New York "We hear you people are doing some interesting things up there"
				Fall 1965 Though Buchla gets started a few months ahead of Moog, the first Buchla Box appears later. They are very similar: both are modular and used voltage control for the oscillators and amplifiers--but the Buchla Box consciously avoids keyboard controllers
April 1965 The Synket is the first synthesizer ever used in live performance when John Eaton performs "Songs for RPB" for soprano, Synket, and piano at the American Academy in Rome
				July 1965 "Variations V" premiers at Lincoln Center--John Cage commissioned Moog to set up antennas that would make percussive noises as dancers approached them. It was plagued with technical malfunctions, but being part of a concert at the center of New York City's art world meant Moog had come far in a short period of time
August 1965 Deutsch and Moog organize a legendary summer synthesizer seminar series in Trumansburg, to let composers to play with the latest equipment in turn teach Moog more about their needs
				January 1966 The link between psychedelic music and the synthesizer is born with the Buchla Box performance at the Trips Festival in San Francisco
October 1966 Moog files for a patent on his unique low-pass filter, the only item on the whole synthesizer he ever patented
				1966 Richard Teitelbaum brings the first Moog synthesizer to Europe, performing over 200 concerts with it and helps to found the pioneering live electronic music group Musica Electronica Viva in Rome
January 1967 The first issue of Electronic Music Review appears, with Moog as technical editor, containing equipment reviews, articles on how to use studio electronic music equipment, essays on different genres of electronic music, reviews of concerts and albums, etc.
				April 1967 Moog introduces for the first time a catalog with complete "synthesizers." He offered three different models (I, II, and III) ranging in price from $2,800 to $6,200
Spring 1967 With his factory, studio, catalog, and journal, Moog's position as a leading innovator in the field of electronic music is assured and he is invited to chair the sessions on electronic music at the AES meeting, just three years after his start in the industry
				June 1967 Beaver and Krause--Hollywood and pop music specialists who became major Moog networkers and sales brokers--rent a booth at the Monterey Pop Festival and score a record deal to produce The Nonesuch Guide to Electronic Music on their flight there
Summer 1968 Carlos completes the recording of Switched-On Bach; her partner Rachel Elkind lands a record deal at Columbia for a thousand dollars
				Summer 1968 Jon Weiss from Moog flies to London to bring the Rolling Stone a Moog Series III modular synthesizer--Her Majesties Custom and Excise Officers spend three hours taking the equipment apart searching for drugs
Summer 1968 Mike Vickers of Manfred Mann was at the Abbey Road studios when a Moog was first brought in--he probably set up the synthesizer on Abbey Road
				October 1968 Carlos makes a rare public appearance at Bob's famous airing of a selection from Switched-On Bach at the New York AES (just before the album was released) Moog: "I can remember peoples' mouths dropping open. I swear I could see a couple of those cynical old bastards starting to cry. At the end, she got a standing ovation."
Summer 1969 New York City experiences its first ever live synthesizer concert when Bob Moog performs at MOMA's "Jazz in the Garden" series
				1969 Tom Constanten plays Moog synthesizer the Grateful Dead's third album, Aoxomoxoa
1969-1970 A flood of Switched-On Bach knockoffs are released, including Switched-On Bacharach, Switched-On Nashville, and Switched-On Santa
				January 1970 The First Moog Quartet is performed at Carnegie Hall (accompanied by movies and dancers) to less than rave reviews, receiving an "outright slam by the New York Times"
Easter 1970 Premier of Minimoog synthesizer by David Borden and Mother Mallard for piece "Easter" at Barnes Hall, Cornell University
				August 1970 Dick Hyman, a high-profile Moog musician, premieres the Model D at the "Jazz in the Garden" series at MOMA
October 1970 Hemsath and Moog introduce portable synth the Minimoog at AES--it was developed under extraordinary circumstances in less than a year
				May 1970 The ARP 2500 is shown at the California AES and launches an anti-Moog ad campaign: "If you would like to spend your time creatively...rather than fighting your way through a nest of cords, a maze of distracting apparatus, you'll find the ARP uniquely efficient...P.S. The oscillators stay in tune."
1970 Jazz musician Paul Bley takes the modular Moog on a tour of Europe and performs one of the early live synthesizer concerts at Carnegie Hall
				May 1971 With the Moog company experiencing economic trouble, Bill Waytena assumes their debts and moves the company near Buffalo NY, leaving behind most of the engineering team
early 1972 Moog salesman David Van Koevering records 121 different sales in 107 different cities in 25 different states--he sells 86 Minimoogs and an additional 168 synthesizers (Sonic V, Sonic VI, and Satellites), plus a range of accessories, including Moog T-Shirts, LPs, literature, tapes of radio and TV shows
				1975 Keyboard magazine launches--a much slicker publication than EMR, aimed at the mass market--and becomes a must-read for enthusiasts
1977 In a publicity coup, the ARP 2500 appears in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and the ARP 2600 is used for the voice of R2D2 in Star Wars...meanwhile, the modular Moog has enduring influence on the many waves of German electronic music during the 1970s, eg. Kraftwerk's Trans-Europe Express
				1978 Shirleigh Moog, an accomplished cook, produces the Moog Musical Eatery recipe book, published by Crossing Press
1981 The new MIDI standard (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) begins a mainstream diversion away from analog synthesizers
				1983 The Yamaha DX7--usually regarded as the breakthrough digital instrument--appears with great commercial success
1988 A "second summer of love" for English "rave" culture, which inherits some aspects of synthesizer and drug culture from Buchla's scene
				1994 Moog and Deutsch are called as "expert witnesses" on opposite sides of a lawsuit between Casio and the U.S. Government to determine whether their devices are "machines" or "musical instruments" (more expensive to import)...the government won despite Moog's testimony that Casios are not musical instruments because they do not offer "real-time control"
1996 Bob remarries Ileona Grams and after a long legal battle, recovers the right to use his own name, "Moog Music, Inc."
				October 2002 Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer is published by Harvard University Press