The University of North Carolina at Asheville ( UNC Asheville , UNCA , or simply Asheville ) is a public liberal arts university in Asheville, North Carolina , United States. UNC Asheville is the designated liberal arts institution in the University of North Carolina system. It is a member and the headquarters of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges .
45-505: The Bob Moog Memorial Foundation was created after the death of Dr. Robert Moog in 2005, and officially launched in August 2006. His family established the foundation to honor the legacy of Moog "through its mission of igniting creativity at the intersection of music, history, science, and innovation." The foundation is an independent, donor-driven 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with no formal affiliations with Moog Music, Inc. The foundation
90-621: A Grammy Trustees Award for lifetime achievement in 1970, the Polar Music Prize in 2001 and a Special Merit/ Technical Grammy Award in 2002. In 2012, to celebrate Moog's birthday, Google created an interactive version of the Minimoog as its Google Doodle . In 2013, Moog was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame . On July 18, 2013, Moog's widow Ileana Grams-Moog announced plans to donate Moog's archives, maintained by
135-459: A touchscreen -operated piano. Moog married Shirley May Leigh on June 15, 1958. They had four children, Laura (1961), Renée (1963), Michelle (1967), and Matthew (1970). They divorced in 1994. On May 19, 1996 Moog married Ileana Grams. Moog was diagnosed with a glioblastoma multiforme brain tumor on April 28, 2005. He died on August 21, 2005, at the age of 71 in Asheville, North Carolina . He
180-577: A 3-1 B.S. in engineering, and a joint B.S. in engineering in mechatronics concentration. All students complete a capstone or culminating academic experience. UNC Asheville founded the National Conference on Undergraduate Research and has hosted the event five times. Some sixty percent of student complete undergraduate research or creative project. Around 20% of students participate in study abroad or study away. More than 48 of its graduates have received Fulbright Fellowships . Located on campus,
225-408: A Baccalaureate College–Arts & Sciences (Bac/A&S). The University's most popular majors include biology/biological sciences, business administration and management, computer science, digital arts, English language and literature, mass communication/media studies, psychology, and sociology. It also offers joint degrees with North Carolina State University, including a 2-2 B.S. in engineering,
270-427: A PhD in engineering physics at Cornell University . He developed his synthesizer in response to demand for more practical and affordable electronic-music equipment, guided by suggestions and requests from composers. Moog's principal innovation was the voltage-controlled oscillator , which uses voltage to control pitch . He also introduced fundamental synthesizer concepts such as modularity , envelope generation and
315-442: A debilitating recession. Moog remained employed as a designer at the company until 1977. He said that he would have left earlier if his contract had not required him to remain employed there for four years to cash his stock. By the end of the decade, Moog Music was facing competition from cheaper, easier-to-use instruments by competitors including ARP , Aries, Roland , and E-mu . In 1978, Moog moved to North Carolina and founded
360-882: A doctorate. The Princeton Review ranked UNC Asheville as number six for Green Matters, number nine for LGBTQ-Friendly, number 25 for Best Quality of Life, number 22 for Most Politically Active Students, and number 15 for its College City. The 2022 edition of The Fiske Guide named UNC Asheville a best-buy; the list only includes ten public and ten private universities from across the United States. In 2019, Forbes magazine ranked UNC Asheville number 494 in Top Colleges, number 176 in Public Colleges, and number 165 in Liberal Arts Universities. Washington Monthly ranked UNC Asheville number 76 on its 2022 Best Bang for
405-631: A keyboard, dubbing his creation the Clavivox . Moog married in 1958 and continued building and selling theremin kits from his own home in Ithaca , before establishing the company's first commercial space at 41 East Main Street in Trumansburg, New York in 1963, all while continuing to pursue his postgraduate education . At Cornell, Moog began work on his first synthesizer components with composer Herb Deutsch . At
450-494: A new electronic instrument company, Big Briar. He also worked as a consultant and vice president for new product research at Kurzweil Music Systems from 1984 to 1988. In the early 1990s, he was a research professor of music at the University of North Carolina at Asheville . In 2002, he renamed Big Briar to Moog Music after retrieving the rights to the name. In later years, he continued to design electronic instruments, including
495-415: A poor businessman. Moog had pursued the development of his synthesizer as a hobby, stressing that he was regarded as a businessman but had not known what a balance sheet was. He likened the experience to a theme park ride: "You know you're not going to get hurt too badly because nobody would let you do that, but you're not quite in control." Moog only patented his filter design; David Borden , one of
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#1732855125337540-680: A president, vice-president, and Cabinet. UNCA Out is a student group dedicated to students that identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, asexual, queer, questioning, two-spirit, intersexed, and straight allies. UNC Asheville's Concerts on the Quad features weekly outdoor concerts during the summer months. The North Asheville Tailgate Market is open Saturdays, April through November, and features around 40 local vendors. UNC Asheville Dining Services are located in Brown Dining Hall. They serve about 265,000 meals annually, and donate to Food Connections on
585-805: A selection of pictures, documents and items from Bob Moog's archives, took place in August 2009 at the Museum of Making Music . A Minimoogseum was installed at the Orange Peel in 2010 following a ribbon cutting ceremony by the Beastie Boys . The Moogseum was officially opened on August 15, 2019, with a multi-day ceremony in Asheville, North Carolina, including presentations by sonic pioneers Herb Deutsch and Larry Fast , and interviews and performances by Patrick Moraz and Lisa Bella Donna . Moog, an electrical engineer and American pioneer of electronic musical instruments like
630-566: Is located in Asheville, North Carolina, where Moog spent the last 25 years of his life. The Bob Moog Foundation's projects include Dr. Bob's SoundSchool, which teaches the science of sound through the magic of music, the Bob Moog Foundation Archives, an effort to preserve and protect Dr. Moog's extensive and historic archive and a museum named the "Moogseum," an innovative educational, historic, and cultural facility located in Asheville, North Carolina. The Waves of Inspiration exhibit,
675-538: The Boy Scouts , and especially enjoyed spending time with his father, a Consolidated Edison engineer , visiting Manhattan 's Radio Row and working on radio and electronics projects. He became fascinated by the theremin , an electronic instrument controlled by moving the hands over radio antennae . In 1949, at the age of 14, he built a theremin from plans printed in Electronics World . He graduated from
720-656: The Bronx High School of Science in 1952. He earned a Bachelor of Science in physics from Queens College of the City University of New York in 1955, and a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science under a 3-2 engineering program in 1957. He earned a PhD in engineering physics from Cornell University in 1965. In 1953, Moog produced his own theremin design, and in
765-491: The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute has some 220 faculty and offer more than 350 classes each year. UNC Asheville had 222 full-time faculty members the fall of 2022, with 87% holding terminal degrees in their field. Another 99 faculty serve part-time. Faculty teach all classes; there are no teaching assistants. Nearly 60% of the classes have less than 20 students. As of 2022, the student-faculty ratio
810-540: The RCA Mark II , had created sound from hundreds of vacuum tubes . Instead, Moog used recently available silicon transistors with an exponential relationship between input voltage and output current . With these, he created the voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), which generates a waveform with a pitch that could be adjusted by changing the voltage. Similarly, he used voltage to control loudness with voltage-controlled amplifiers (VCAs). One innovative feature
855-568: The RCA Synthesizer introduced a decade earlier, and much cheaper, at US$ 10,000, as compared to the six-figure sums of other synthesizers. Whereas the RCA Synthesizer was programmed with punchcards , Moog's synthesizer could be programmed with knobs and patch cables and played via keyboard, making it attractive to musicians. New Scientist described it as the first commercial synthesizer. At this time, Moog and then Fred Cochran constructed
900-532: The Theremin and the Moog Synthesizer , left an indelible mark on the music industry. His instruments have been included in recordings by Wendy Carlos , Keith Emerson , The Beatles , The Beach Boys , Stevie Wonder , Yes and a host of others. Robert Moog Robert Arthur Moog ( / m oʊ ɡ / MOHG ; May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005) was an American engineer and electronic music pioneer. He
945-515: The University of North Carolina . It is one of three baccalaureate colleges within the University of North Carolina System, and has been classified as a Liberal Arts I institution since 1992. The university operates under the guidance and policies of the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Members of the board are appointed by the governor of North Carolina. As part of
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#1732855125337990-423: The pitch wheel . He is credited with introducing synthesizers to a wider audience and influencing the development of popular music . Moog pursued his work as a hobby, and he is regarded as a poor businessman. His only patent was on his transistor ladder filter design; commentators have speculated that he would have become extremely wealthy had he patented his other innovations, but that their availability in
1035-473: The public domain helped the synthesizer industry flourish. In 1971, Moog sold Moog Music to Norlin Musical Instruments , where he remained as a designer until 1977. In 1978, he founded the company Big Briar, and in 2002 he renamed it Moog Music after reacquiring the rights to the name. In later years, Moog taught at the University of North Carolina at Asheville and continued designing instruments for
1080-554: The 2023 biography Switched On: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution by Albert Glinsky . Moog had contributed the foreword to Glinsky's first book, Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage, about Leon Theremin , who was a principal inspiration to Moog. Moog was also the subject of Moog , a 2004 documentary directed by Hans Fjellestad , who said that Moog "embodies the archetypal American maverick inventor." University of North Carolina at Asheville UNC Asheville
1125-561: The ADSR envelope shape), and Wendy Carlos . His other early customers included choreographer and composer Alwin Nikolais and composer John Cage . Universities established electronic music studios with Moog synthesizers. In 1970, Moog released the portable fixed-architecture Minimoog , described as the most famous and influential synthesizer in history. Though commentators have praised Moog's engineering abilities, some have also described him as
1170-536: The Bob Moog Foundation, to Cornell University . The foundation offered her $ 100,000 but Grams-Moog would not sell the archives. She felt that Cornell could provide better access for researchers and that the foundation had not made enough progress toward a planned museum to be worthy of maintaining the collection. The foundation responded that it had sufficiently preserved the collection and had made efforts to improve storage, although it could not yet afford to build
1215-620: The Buck Rankings: Southeast and number 77 for its national Liberal Arts Colleges Ranking. There are more than sixty campus clubs and organizations. Student activities include Greek organizations, with 2% of males belonging to a fraternity and 1% of females belonging to the one sorority. Some 44% of students participate in a service learning project, while 11% participate in intramural sports. UNC Asheville's Student Government Association (SGA) consists of two branches, an eighteen-seat Student Senate and an executive branch comprising
1260-871: The Southern Highlands Research Center and focuses on the history Asheville and Western North Carolina. Annually, the library gives the Ramsey Library Community Author Award; the winner receives a yearlong residency in the library. In 2022-2023, UNC Asheville's ranking in U.S. New & World Report 8 in Top Public Liberal Arts Schools and 136 in National Liberal Arts Colleges. It also ranked 130 in Best Undergraduate Engineering Program for institutions that do not offer
1305-538: The college desegregated with the enrollment of Etta Mae Whitner Patterson. In 1963 it became a state-supported four-year college, and awarded its first bachelor's degrees in 1966. Its first residence halls were built in 1967. It adopted its current name in 1969 upon becoming part of the Consolidated University of North Carolina, since 1972 called the University of North Carolina System . UNC Asheville desegregated its faculty in 1981, along with all schools in
1350-522: The crest of Sunset Mountain. Evelyn Grove Seely, widow of Fred Loring Seely , sold Overlook to the college $ 125,000; she also donated $ 50,000 to the acquisition fund. The college renamed the house Seely Hall, as requested by the seller. The house, no longer part of the college, was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. In 1961, Asheville-Biltmore College moved to the present UNC Asheville campus in north Asheville. That year,
1395-538: The departure of Nancy Cable in December 2022. The campus includes 365 acres in a small city setting. Noteworthy campus features include: UNC Asheville operates on a semester calendar. It offers four-year undergraduate programs leading to Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, and Bachelor of Science degrees in 36 majors, and is classified by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education as
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1440-515: The enrollees were full-time students. There are deadlines for admissions, and either a ACT or SAT is required. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 35% of students received a Pell Grant . D. Hiden Ramsey Library is located in the center of campus. It includes the Media Design Lab and the crAFT (Creativity, Art, Fabrication, and Technology) Studio. The library's holdings include Special Collections and University Archives which started in 1977 as
1485-546: The first users of the Minimoog, felt that if Moog had patented his pitch wheel design, he would have become extremely wealthy. According to Sound on Sound , if Moog had created a monopoly on other synthesizer ideas that he created, such as modularity, envelope generation and voltage control, "it's likely the synth industry as we know it today would never have happened." Beginning in 1971, Moog Music absorbed investors, merged with Norlin Musical Instruments and moved to "less than ideal" premises near Buffalo, New York , amid
1530-505: The following year, he published an article on the theremin in Radio and Television News . That same year, he founded R.A. Moog Co. , building theremins and theremin kits in his parents' home and selling them via mail order . In 1956, Moog and his father visited Raymond Scott 's Manhattan Research facility, and Scott purchased a Moog Model 305 theremin. Scott rewired the Moog theremin to be controlled by
1575-529: The museum. In August 2019, the Bob Moog Foundation opened the Moogseum, a museum dedicated to Moog's work, in Asheville, North Carolina. The displays include rare theremins, prototype synthesizer modules and Moog's documents. Moog has been the subject of books about his life and work, including the 2004 book Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer by Trevor Pinch and Frank Trocco and
1620-511: The revived Moog Music. He died at the age of 71 in Asheville from a brain tumor. Robert Moog was born at Flushing Hospital in New York City on May 23, 1934. His father was George Conrad Moog, of German descent. His mother was Shirley (Jacobs) Moog, of Polish-Jewish descent. He was raised in Flushing , Queens . When he was a boy, Moog's mother forced him to study the piano. He was active in
1665-581: The school merged with the College of the City of Asheville (founded in 1928) to form Biltmore Junior College . In 1934 the college was renamed Biltmore College . In 1936, the name changed to Asheville-Biltmore College , and control was transferred to the Asheville City Schools. In 1949, the college relocated to the 20,000-square foot Overlook Castle , also known as Seely's Caste, which included 29 acres on
1710-607: The seventeen-campus University of North Carolina System, UNC Asheville also falls under the administration of the system's president, Peter Hans . The UNC System is administered by the UNC Board of Governors, which is elected by the North Carolina Legislature, and advised by the UNC Faculty Assembly. Kimberly van Noort, former interim provost, is currently serving as interim chancellor of UNC Asheville, following
1755-512: The so-called Moogtonium for the composer Max Brand. It is still operational and exhibited in the Langenzersdorf_Museum near Vienna (Austria). Moog described himself as a toolmaker designing things for his users, not himself. His development was driven by requests and suggestions from various musicians, including Deutsch (who devised the instrument's keyboard interface), Richard Teitelbaum , Vladimir Ussachevsky (credited with devising
1800-421: The time, synthesizers were enormous, room-filling instruments; Moog hoped to build a more compact synthesizer that would appeal to musicians. He believed that practicality and affordability were the most important parameters. In 1964, Moog began creating the Moog modular synthesizer. It was composed of separate modules that created and shaped sounds, connected by patch cords . Previous synthesizers, such as
1845-420: Was 14:1. UNC Asheville's acceptance rate for the fall of 2021 was 82%. At that time, total enrollment was 3,233, with 57% female students and 43% male students. As of fall 2020, students came from 43 states and seventeen countries; 12% of the current study body was from outside of North Carolina. The student demographics were 73.57% White, 8.84% Hispanic, 5.11% Black, 1.68% Asian, and 5.08% unknown. 87% of
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1890-711: Was founded in 1927 as Buncombe County Junior College , part of the Buncombe County public school system. It was the first tuition-free public college in North Carolina. It was located in the Biltmore School in south Asheville on Hendersonville Road (U.S. 25). In 2001, Biltmore School was recognized by the Save America's Treasures program. During the Great Depression, the college started charging tuition. In 1930
1935-503: Was its envelope , which controls how notes swell and fade. According to the Guardian , Moog's 1964 paper Voltage-Controlled Music Modules , in which he proposed the Moog synthesizer modules, invented the modern concept of the analog synthesizer . Moog debuted the instrument at the 1964 Audio Engineering Society convention in New York. It was much smaller than other synthesizers, such as
1980-645: Was survived by his second wife Ileana, four children, one stepdaughter and five grandchildren. Moog has had a lasting influence on music. The BBC describes him as a pioneer of synthesized sound. According to the Guardian , his inventions "changed the complexion of the pop and classical music worlds." Moog's name became so associated with electronic music that it was sometimes used as a generic term for any synthesizer. Moog's awards include honorary doctorates from Polytechnic Institute of New York University ( New York City ), Lycoming College ( Williamsport, Pennsylvania ) and Berklee College of Music . He received
2025-619: Was the founder of the synthesizer manufacturer Moog Music and the inventor of the first commercial synthesizer , the Moog synthesizer , which debuted in 1964. In 1970, Moog released a more portable model, the Minimoog , described as the most famous and influential synthesizer in history. Among Moog's honors are a Technical Grammy Award , received in 2002, and an induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame . By 1963, Moog had been designing and selling theremins for several years while working toward
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