Here’s an excerpt from the New York Times’ coverage of Moogfest:
Geekiness reigned, proudly and openly, at Moogfest 2014, the largest iteration yet of a festival created by Moog Music, which makes all of its synthesizers and other equipment by hand at a small factory here in downtown Asheville.
The festival connected current music to the legacy of strange sounds and engineering breakthroughs like those made by Robert Moog, the inventor of the Moog synthesizer, who settled in Asheville in 1978 and died in 2005. Half a century after Moog hooked up the voltage-controlled oscillators that drive analog synthesizers, Moogfest mixed the retro and the futuristic, reveling in artificial sounds that could still be tweaked further.
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