Bob Moog is dead

Bob Moog didn't invent the synthesizer, as far as I know, (that honor arguably belongs to whoever invented the pipe organ with stops) but he had a tremendous amount to do with its modern development. I vividly remember the sound of "Switched On Bach", played by Walter (later Wendy) Carlos on a custom Moog synthesizer. He'll be missed.

http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2005/08/bobs-body-leaves-us.html
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/22/1650214
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050822/tc_nm/moog_dc
http://www.caringbridge.com/visit/bobmoog

Crossover mashup madness

This is sick Sick, I tell you. What I tell you three times is true. Really sick. Don't have anything in your mouth when you're reading it.

(From lysana and filkerdave)

A long-awaited song

I finally have the sheet music (well, a digital photo of the sheet music) and a couple of oggs for "Demon Lover" up on the web, along with a little text. I also put up the ogg for "Silk and Steel".

None of the oggs are anywhere close to production quality -- in fact, they're pretty bad -- but they should be good enough for someone (Hi, cflute!) who wanted to learn them to sing along with.