RE: Moog Movie

[Richard Zvonar <zvonar@zvonar.com>]

Title: RE: Moog Movie

At 5:11 PM +0000 12/18/04, goddard.duncan@mtvne.com wrote:

> no carlos? no
> beaver/krause (r.i.p.)? no tomita? none of the guys from cave? 'tis
> only half the story then.

Filmmaker Hans Fjellestad:

> Of course, to include every musician
> influenced by and influential on the Moog synthesizer would not be
> realistic. But clearly there are central figures: Keith Emerson, Sun
> Ra, Stevie Wonder, Rick Wakeman, Herbie Hancock, Jan Hammer, Tomita,
> Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, DEVO, Bernie Worrell, Dick Hyman, Wendy
> Carlos and the list goes on... an extensive and impossible
> roster.
>
>
>  And equally untenable for this
> film would be a survey of technological and design advances by other
> synthesizer pioneers like Leon Theremin, Raymond Scott, Don Buchla,
> Thaddeus Cahill, Harald Bode and Hugh LeCaine, all of whom have had
> significant impact on Moog and each deserves a film to themselves
> (only Theremin has one as far as I know).
>
> We did make numerous attempts to
> recruit Wendy Carlos for this project, but she refused to be involved
> at all. She even threatened to sue.
>

Bernie Krause also has a reputation for litigiousness. You just can't get everybody.

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