Word: electronica
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...DIED. ROBERT MOOG, 71, inventor of the Moog synthesizer, credited with ushering in the age of electronica in the 1960s and '70s; in Asheville, North Carolina. As a boy he built gadgets with his engineer father and became intrigued with the theremin, an earlier relative of the synthesizer. His musical instrument first drew attention in 1968 with the release of Switched-On Bach, Walter Carlos' electrified reworking of pieces by the Baroque composer, and was later adopted by artists ranging from the Beatles to Pink Floyd...
DIED. ROBERT MOOG, 71, inventor of the Moog synthesizer, credited with ushering in the age of electronica in the 1960s and '70s; in Asheville, N.C. As a boy, he built gadgets with his engineer father and became intrigued with the theremin, an earlier relative of the synthesizer. His eponymous instrument first drew widespread attention in 1968 with the release of Switched-On Bach, Walter Carlos' electrified reworking of pieces by the baroque composer, and was later adopted by artists such as Pink Floyd and the Beatles...
...funk and electronica...
...signature elements that are regularly deployed: dominant female villains, forays into violence and physical comedy, and the deployment of actors into elaborate, atmospheric sets that enhance the bleak spaces that separate them emotionally. Though some of his tropes can be grating—the alternations between loud yelling, electronica, and animalistic sexuality has grown somewhat predictable—we have all witnessed in Donahue’s work the genesis of a style, and the preliminary efforts of a professional talent of whom we will no doubt hear again...
...program was “Over,” choreographed by Sonia K. Todorova ’07 and set to the Libertango by Astor Piazzolla. Dancers dressed in oddly pinstriped costumes cut off at the knee appeared like primitive cavewomen as they writhed on the floors. The electronica-like soundtrack formed a deliciously appropriate background for the spunky dance, which at one point even featured one dancer deeply arching her back to form a table top while another slid suggestively under her back’s curvature. Again...