Warning: this might come off as a Lefsetz-type rant, but I promise every word has a purpose.
I am not a musician. I don’t know how to read or write music. However, one thing is true: I love to explore sounds. In high school, I would get to the movie theatre extra early, so that I could go to the instrument store next door to mess around with the keyboards. So much about music is about creative expression and emotion regardless of the level of technical understanding.
I had a lot of fun on those weekend afternoons and made what I believed to be some interesting electronic music and my favorite keyboards were Moogs. Moog make every single instrument by hand and have less than 50 total staff at their (sort of) new downtown Asheville factory/studio/sound lab. I respect their craft and determination on pushing boundaries of sound and technology.
That being said, I am proud to say that I will be heading down to Asheville on Halloween weekend for Moog Fest to see some of my favorite “out there” artists including Flying Lotus, Dan Deacon, and Flaming Lips as well as more accessible artists like Little Dragon, SBTRKT, The Antlers, and Active Child.
So if you’re in the North Carolina/Tennessee-area or live elsewhere and have a few vacation days to spare, head down to Asheville for a weekend of amazing music honoring the manufacturer that makes so much of the sound we love today possible.
