Robert Moog — American Inventor born on May 23, 1934, died on August 21, 2005

Robert Arthur "Bob" Moog, founder of Moog Music, was an American engineer and pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer... (wikipedia)

My transition from scientist to entrepreneur? Some would say that I still haven't made that transition.
Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level.
One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.
I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.
Everything has some consciousness, and we tap into that. It is about energy at its most basic level.