Moogfest Goes Behind the Festival’s Data Scenes with Mammoth

As a music festival, Moogfest’s technology and futurism side are unique in comparison to others (maybe with the exception of SXSW), as festivalgoers take part in various digital installations like Microsoft’s Kinect tent featuring Grimes, in sound building workshops and sessions on the future of digital music, or Hacking Sound (Systems), including The Exchange: Switchboard […]

Antenes Gives Switchboards a New Synthesized Life at Moogfest

“There’s just something that really appeals to me about the musician as the operator or the technician,” said NYC-based DJ, producer, and switchboard synthesizer performer, Antenes (Lori Napoleon), in the modular synthesizer documentary, “I Dream Of Wires.” Drawn to the world of this vintage telephone communications equipment, whose history dates back to the day when […]

Moogfest Stands in Protest Against Their State’s House Bill 2

Photo: Tweet by Jill Knight ‎@jillography Earlier this week North Carolina’s legislature and Gov. Pat McCrory took society backwards in time when they passed House Bill 2, the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act, that flushed anti-discrimination protections for all lesbians, gays and bisexuals down the toilette while also barring transgender people from using bathrooms […]