Moogfest 2016, held May 19-22, 2016 in Durham, NC, is a multi-day music, art and technology festival.
Synthtopia’s coverage of the 2016 Moogfest event is sponsored by Vintage King Audio.
You can get the latest news from Moogfest 2016 below:
At Moogfest 2016, Critter & Guitari created a ‘Musical Playground’ for attendees, inside a geodesic dome. The ‘Dome Zone’ was made in collaboration with musicians George Langford of Javelin and Christopher Sean Powell of Man Man & Spaceship Aloha. Here’s a video that C&G’s Chris Kucinski shared that offers a look inside the dome:
At Moogfest 2016, Bastl Instruments introduced the bitRanger, a handheld, patchable analog logic computer designed for sound. In this video, Václav Peloušek & Peter Edwards (Casper Electronics) discuss their new collaboration and introduce the bitRanger handheld modular synthesizer.
At Moogfest 2016, Moog had a ‘pop-up factory’ set up, where they were assembling the new Minimoog Model D synthesizer. We talked with Moog’s TJ Mills, who gave us a tour of the Minimoog Model D assembly process:
At Moogfest 2016, held May 19-22, 2016 in Durham, NC, Gary Numan and his band performed three shows, to standing-room-only audiences. In his Thursday-Saturday night residency at Moogfest, Numan featured one of his classic albums each night: Replicas, The Pleasure Principle, and Telekon.
At Moogfest 2016, Moog was displaying three new, unannounced Eurorack modules, as part of its Global Synthesizer installation, above. According to our contact at Moog, two of the modules – the Geodesic Sampler and the Geospatial Reverb – are custom builds, specific to the Global Synthesizer. The third module, the Brother From Another Mother, was designed as a project… Read More Moog Brother From Another Mother Eurorack Module
At Moogfest 2016, Moog Music reintroduced the classic Minimoog Model D. In the video above, Moog synth guru Nick Montoya shares a look inside of the new Minimoog Model D, explains some of the lengths they went to to reproduce the original’s sound, and also notes what some things that they changed to make the new Minimoog more reliable and serviceable.
Faces of Moogfest 2016: The Orb performed to a huge crowd at Durham, NC’s Armory building.
At Moogfest 2016, the lawn of the Aloft Hotel is home for the Musical Playground – a geodesic dome incorporating analog and digital instruments from Critter and Guitari.
At Moogfest 2016, design firm IDEO has an interactive sound installation onsite, Play-Sound, aka The Beach Ball Synthesizer. The installation lets you play with sound by moving body-scaled inflatable spheres. Here’s a brief video showing the Beach Ball Synth in action:
This video, via producer celldweller, offers his take on the new Moog Minimoog Model D reissue. Moog has taken what it learned about 70s synth parts and manufacturing inreissuing the classic Moog Modulars, and is applying it to recreating the iconic Minimoog. They are using the same components and circuit board layout of the original Model D,… Read More Celldweller On The New Minimoog
