Robert Moog

摘要

In one sense, music went electric in the 1950s when companies such as Fender and Gibson began mass-producing electric guitars. But that was only half a revolution. The music was electronically amplified, but the original sound was still generated by mechanical vibrations, as it had been for thousands of years. Glimpses of an all-electronic future had been offered since the end of the 19th century. The Telharmonium, a 200-ton mechanical ancestor of the Hammond organ designed to be played down the telephone, had allowed musicians to tinker with sound waves to produce interesting new noises as early as 1897. From 1920 the Theremin, played by waving one's hands in front of two radio receivers, generated eerie electronic glissandi without any moving parts.