Bob Moog Foundation

August Worley, Bob Moog, and the other very important person whose name I can’t remember. Here they are designing the Minimoog Voyager some years ago.

Dr. August Worley, designer and architect of the Minimoog Voyager, has a new venture making an electronic device for sonic therapy, promoting healing and health in the body. Not the same thing as music therapy. It’s called the Pyradym. Check it out at augustara.com.

An unknown electric violinist just jacked in to the Moogerfooger booth, run by Jason from Moog Music Inc., and they are doing some wild and hairy improvisations, wrenching astonishing sounds from her futuristic four-string. I’m going to try to interview her later.

The Orange Peel, on Biltmore Street, is Asheville’s premier intimate venue for touring rock bands. Check out the names on the marquee.

Maestro Dave Hamilton sets up the recording rig on the Orange Peel stage

Here’s Dave earlier in the day, setting up the recording and signal processing rig and supervising the soundcheck for all the musicians.

Michelle Moog is onstage right now thanking all the many organizations and people who supported this event. The main purpose of this event is to showcase our plans for the new Moogseum, which will be in Asheville, North Carolina. The Bunscombe County visitors bureau gave us a huge grant to get things started. We hope to break ground in 2012.

Lots of people are really enjoying themselves playing with Moog synthesizers, Moogerfoogers and guitars, and of course theremins. And we’re tracking and mixing an album of new music with contributions from dozens of musicians. There’s live video deejay work going on too. I wish I had access to all these peoples’ names, but I don’t right now. Maybe we can track some down and post them later.

Hi, I’m Wheat Williams, and I’ll be your blogger this evening. Here I am in the lobby of the Orange Peel, in front of their permanent Bob Moog exhibit. His Grammy award statuette is above my right shoulder.

Here are the first two Moog tribute birthday cakes, and the chef with Michelle Moog. Yes, those are real cakes. You can eat everything but the tires on the cars. And later on, people will.

Hi, I’m Wheat Williams. I’ve been a friend of the Moog family for many years and I’ve been volunteering with the Moog Foundation since its inception. I’ve done some press and media relations work, and I’ve worked in cataloging the Moog archives, but mostly these days I do IT and tech support. Michelle Moog-Koussa asked me to “live blog” this event. It’s a broad and impressive undertaking. We were here from 12:00 to 6:00 frantically setting up. Now the guests have arrived and there’s so much going on. Creative Director Dave Hamilton is onstage tracking a host of local musicians who are building up some improvisational music tracks with electric and acoustic instruments. Dave is mixing everything and processing it all through Moogerfoogers to create some hypnotic, rhythmic dance music.

Hundreds of people are here at the Orange Peel in Asheville, North Carolina.

We hope that in a few days you’ll see video clips from the event on the Electronic Musican Magazine web site, and also at GearWire.com.

I have a lot of photos and I’ll start posting them presently.