'Einstein of music' dies - People - Entertainment - smh.com.au: "Robert A Moog, whose self-named synthesizers turned electric currents into sound and opened the musical wave that became electronica, has died at age 71.
Moog died on Sunday at his home in Asheville, North Carolina, according to his company's website. He had suffered from an inoperable brain tumour, detected in April.
A childhood interest in the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments, would lead Moog to create a career and business that tied the name Moog as tightly to synthesizers as the name Les Paul is to electric guitars."
