Analog Days: The Invention and impact of the Moog synthesizer by Trevor Pinch and Frank Trocco, Harvard University Press, $29.95/£20.50, ISBN 0674008898 Reviewed by Jon Turney
PHOTOGRAPHERS in the 1960s offered a standard shot of musician-with-Moog synthesiser. The proud owner almost always had one hand on the keyboard, one on the bank of knobs behind it. The keyboard signified musical instrument; the knobs that this was no ordinary instrument. But in those days, it was not yet clear what kind it was going to be.
Bob Moog (rhymes with “vogue”) is the central figure in Trevor Pinch and Frank…
