Bob Moog Foundation

Wheat again.

Here is what was in the Silent Auction at Enter the Mind of Moog

You may not know it, but Michelle Moog-Koussa ran a successful gift shop, called Amore, in Asheville for many years. But soon after Michelle started the Bob Moog Memorial Foundation, she realized she had to close the shop to devote herself full-time to the Foundation. Because of Michelle’s extensive business experience, a lot of excellent Asheville gift shops donated lots of goodies for our silent auction. But there’s more in there for the collector and musician. Here is a quick summary of the items offered in our silent auction, which benefits the Moog Foundation.

Moog Archive Photograph, from 1958. Bob in a nice business suit playing a Melodia Theremin. Number 1 of a limited series of 25.

West Side Gift Basket

Gift certificates to some of the most popular stores and restaurants in Asheville

The Virtuoso International School of Music

4 online piano lessons and a DVD including all 6 volumes of the Virtuoso Methodology series. http://virtuosoism.com

SampleMoog musical instrument multisample library, from Sonic Reality and IK Multimedia

Value $230

Karmasonics Music Package

17 CDs from the music store, total value $150

L’eau de Vie Gift Package

$200 in hair care and facial treatment from one of Asheville’s premier salons.

Moog Little Phatty Synthesizer, value $1,300

Malaprop’s Basket

$230 of books from this popular Asheville independent bookstore.

Chocolate-Raspberry Cake from Rose & Lilly’s Cakes (designers of this evening’s Voyager cake). Total value $80.00

Echo Mountain Recording Studio package

One full day’s use of the facilities, value of $1,000.

Downtown Shopping Spree, total value $275

Father’s Day Basket

A bunch of gifts and gift certificates from numerous Asheville stores

Moog Archive Package

Vintage Moog Music sticker from the early 1970s, and Publisher’s copy of the article “Electronic Music” from the Encyclopedia of Applied Physics, 1994, authored by Bob Moog. Both come with a letter of provenance from Ileana Grams-Moog.

Sensibilities Gift Basket

$140 worth of bathroom-spa goodies from this popular Asheville store.

Well, I wish you could hear the music. The EP will be available soon so you’ll just have to buy a copy.

I’m really proud of the tremendous progress the Moog Foundation has made in the last year. Go too moogseum.com if you haven’t already and learn about our fantastic plans. We want to educate the world about electronic music and its contribution to musical creativity and art, and of course Bob Moog’s pivotal role in all of this.

The Asheville, North Carolina community has been what has kept all this going. Bob Moog moved here in the 1970s and made it his home, where he lived with his family and raised his four children. It’s obvious that Asheville loves Moog and appreciates the Moog legacy in music history. Now they want to help us share it with the world by helping us build our museum. We hope you’ll continue to support us, and come visit the museum when it opens!

I’m sorry I could not come up with a list of all the great performers on stage tonight. I’ll try to put one together and post it after the fact.

Meanwhile the jam sessions continue. The event is scheduled to run until 10:00 pm, which is twenty more minutes, but I’ll take this opportunity to sign off. I drove up from Atlanta, Georgia this morning to help out with this event and I’ve had a great time. I’ve enjoyed being your host, as it were.

Moog on!

Wheat Williams, volunteer

The ska/reggae song tracked and mixed earlier has been completed, and the whole band is back onstage to play their song with the full arrangement all the way through. Nobody can keep still. There’s a serious groove going down.

Sorry I havent’ posted in awhile. I’ve met so many great people worth talking to.

Inside the famous Orange Peel before the crowd arrived.

Moog Foundation T-shirts at the merch booth. Have you ordered yours yet?

And here are two more cakes–a Moogerfooger and the Bob Moog Foundation logo in edible form.

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.