Asheville's annual electronic music festival and conference celebrated a decade with big performances, blown speakers and an alien landing
Driving in to Asheville, North Carolina, the succession of ammo and live bait stores abruptly give way to stores full of dreamcatchers and crystals instead. Like Austin, Texas or Olympia, Washington, Asheville is an outpost of crunchy in an otherwise un-granola-ed state. Also like Austin, home to SXSW, Asheville is becoming famous for its cultural event Moogfest.
This is where Dr Robert (Bob) Moog invented the Moog synthesiser in 1967, and his influence is hard to overstate. His creation effectively facilitated electronic music and it is not hyperbole to say that pop music sounds the way it does because of him. Moog still has its factory here, where just 17 workers make the machines by hand, honouring the geeky idealism of their eccentric progenitor.
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by Hermione Hoby via Electronic music | The Guardian
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