Moog
by Hans Fjellestad
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Actor: Charlie Clouser, Edd Kalehoff, Gershon Kingsley, Herbert Deutsch, Keith EmersonDirector: Hans Fjellestad
Cinematographer: Elia Lyssy
Editor: Hans Fjellestad
Producer: Hans Fjellestad
Producer: Adriana Trujillo
Producer: Gary Hustwit
Producer: Keith York
Producer: Ryan Page
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 72 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-31
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Plexifilm
DVD Reviews of Moog
DVD Review: Everything old is new again
Summary: 5 Stars
Knowing almost nothing about analog synthesis, I got my hands on Moog's "Little Phatty" Synth ("LP" for short) just recently. The LP is said to be the last product that Robert Moog had input on and that his vision was to put the power and versaility of the Analog Synth into the hands of more people. (the Voyager is quite expensive, not to mention complex).
Well, it worked. I picked up the "Tribute Edition" of the LP on eBay and was lucky enough to also get the "Tribute" CD and Flash feature, still shrink wrapped.
Stumbling onto the Moog movie was a direct result of the trailer that was on the CD and just about a week ago, I downloaded the movie. I can't stop watching it.
As one reviewer put it (and I'm paraphrasing), capturing Moog and a few backstage friends on film is a priceless view into a world that we may never have known [if this movie was not produced].
Personally, I could have done with a bit less of the DJ scratchin' but it does give air time to the subculture of enthusiasts that use Moog technology for their own brand of what was once considered experimental music.
As quiet and observing as Bob Moog was said to have been (it is said that he preferred to listen to others rather than to speak about himself and his accomplishments), his manner, the stories of collaboration, and especially the clips of the good ole days, tie together a great story of how his first machines came to be.
DVD Review: love!!!!!!!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you like synths you'll love this DVD guaranteed. A must see are the Shaffer light commercials.DVD Review: "Moog" a brilliant Film for anyone interested in moog,
Summary: 5 Stars
"Moog" a brilliant Film for anyone interested in moog,theremins, synthesizers or the history of eletronic music!!!!! this is a great DVD [[ASIN:B00095L94W Moog]
This is one of the best documentaries i own and its a brilliant peice of both art and science in one!!!
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DVD Review: Analog Synthesizer Fever
Summary: 5 Stars
I finished watching it 5 minutes ago and the first time I did was come here to amazon to see how much a minimoog costs, too bad I will have to wait a couple of years before I can afford one. Anyway, it's a very good documentary, I'm glad someone honored Mr. Moog making a documentary about him, he desserves that and way more.DVD Review: mumbling, muttering mess
Summary: 2 Stars
A documentary about Robert Moog, one of the most important figures in electronic music? Yes, please, sign me up. Alas, this premise goes awry from the outset. This mishmash of a documentary feels like a collection of outtakes from a better work. I don't need to see Robert Moog talking about pepper plants and Money Mark diddling around on a synthesizer.
MOOG demonstrates that sometimes it's best to not rely on the subject of the documentary as the subject matter expert of the film. Robert Moog is not the most well-spoken advocate and historian of his life's work. Likewise, showing the electronic guts of his machines doesn't do much to explain how they work or why Moog's work is important to the music world.
When utilizing archive footage, MOOG works. Unfortunately, these moments are few and far between leaving MOOG a mumbling, muttering mess for its interminable seventy-two minutes. Moog and electronica deserve better.
Description of Moog
ROBERT MOOG HAS BEEN INVENTING AND BUILDING ELECTRONIC MUSICAL instruments for nearly half a century. MOOG, the film, takes us inside the mind of this legendary figure as he shares his ideas about creativity, design, interactivity, and spirituality. To this day, Moog continues to shape musical culture with some of the most inspiring instruments ever created.MOOG features interviews and performances by Stereolab, Keith Emerson, Walter Sear, Gershon Kinsgley, Jean-Jacques Perrey & Luke Vibert, Rick Wakeman, DJ Spooky, Herb Deutsch, Bernie Worrell, Pamelia Kurstin, Tino Corp., Charlie Clouser, Money Mark, Mix Master Mike and others.
A man who genuinely revolutionized late-20th Century music gets his due with Moog, writer-director Hans Fjellestad's absorbing documentary about Robert Moog, inventor of the synthesizer that bears his name. In his seventies when this 2004 film was made, Moog began working with electronic music in the late 1940s, when he designed and built theremins (the source of the wavy sci-fi sound heard on the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations"). But it was the development of the Moog synthesizer, an analog instrument with electronic components, that put him on the map. Unsurprisingly, it was initially dismissed as a soulless novelty, a notion not helped by its use in silly commercial jingles; Moog himself was regarded as nothing less than a dangerous anarchist out to destroy music as we know it. That all changed when he added a keyboard to his machine and musicians of all stripes gradually began using it for more serious ends. Moog credits Walter (now Wendy) Carlos' Switched-On Bach as the first important milestone, and the list of major artists who have used it since then includes the Beatles (on Abbey Road), Stevie Wonder (a vital early proponent who for some reason goes completely unmentioned here), Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and Rick Wakeman of Yes. The latter two perform briefly in the film, as do many others (P-Funk's Bernie Worrell, Sun Ra, Charlie Clouser of Nine Inch Nails), but Moog is the star here. Indeed, it's hard not to believe this genial, self-effacing man when he talks of the "spiritual connection" between his invention and the people who play it. --Sam Graham
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