Moogfest 2014 Announces Daytime Presenters Including Futurists, Musicians, Scientists, & Authors

ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Nov. 14, 2013 - PRLog -- ASHEVILLE, NC – Moogfest (http://www.moogfest.com/) is a five-day festival dedicated to the synthesis of technology, art and music. Since its inception in 2004, Moogfest has been a magnet for artists, engineers, and enthusiasts of Bob Moog. With an experimental lineup of daytime conference programming featuring cultural, artistic and technological luminaries and punctuated by a diverse line up of landmark nightly performances, Moogfest honors the creativity and inventiveness of Dr. Robert Moog and pays tribute to the legacy of the analog synthesizer.  This is no ordinary festival.

On November 21, Moogfest will announce curators of the evening music showcases, and on December 19, Moogfest will announce the music headliners when Phase 2 General Admission prices are scheduled to go up to $299. In an effort to make this unique event accessible, Phase 1 ticket prices are being offered at an unbeatable price of $199.

Moogfest by night presents four evenings of landmark musical performances by new trailblazers, early pioneers of electronic music and major headliners in over ten venues across the city including arena concerts, and music showcases.  Past Moogfest performers include Brian Eno, James Murphy, Richie Hawtin, Terry Riley, Massive Attack, M83, The Flaming Lips, MGMT, Suicide, TV On The Radio, Grimes, Sleigh Bells, Hot Chip, St. Vincent, Amon Tobin, Tangerine Dream, Squarepusher, Orbital, Flying Lotus and more.

Phase 1 includes visionaries that bend history and empower new thinking with a participatory program of intervention and collaboration: talks, workshops, installations and performances by futurist thinkers, inventors, entrepreneurs, engineers, artists, scientists, musicians, filmmakers and synth legends.

Laurie Anderson:

Musician, composer, pioneer in electronic music & one of the great experimental performance artists.

Cliff Martinez:

Composer best known for his epic and haunting film scores, which include 'Drive', 'Only God Forgives', 'Contagion', 'Solaris' and 'Traffic,' plus a collaborative score with Skrillex for ‘Spring Breakers’.

Hans Fjellestad:

Director, producer, writer and editor of the 2004 documentary ‘Moog’, and producer and writer of 2009’s 'The Heart Is A Drum Machine'.

Claire Evans:

Musician, artist and science writer. Editor-In-Chief at the science fiction magazine OMNI, investigating the intersection of art & science.

Mark Frauenfelder:

Editor-In-Chief of MAKE magazine. Founder & Co-Editor of the weblog/print zine Boing Boing.

Roger Linn:

Industrial designer of electronic drum machines and guitar effects pedals. His products are used on countless famous recordings.

Malcolm Cecil:

Creator of TONTO, the world's first multi-timbral, polyphonic analog audio synthesizer.

Tom Oberheim:

Audio engineer, maker of analogue synthesizers, effects processors, sequencers & drum machines.

Jason Amm:

Filmmaker, music producer, remixer.  Performs as Solvent, co-owner of record label Suction.

Charles Lindsay:

Photographer and artist, is the first of its kind, Artist in Residence at the SETI (Search of Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute.

Jerome C. Glenn:

Co-founder & Director of The Millennium Project, renowned expert on Future Studies.

George Dvorsky:

Futurist concerned with the ethical and sociological impacts of emerging technologies.

Bruce Walker:

Associate Professor at the Schools of Psychology and Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Dr. Nick Bostrom:

Futurist and philosopher at the University of Oxford. He is the director of the Future of Humanity Institute and the Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology.

Dr. Joseph Paradiso:

Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab’s Media Arts & Sciences program and Co-Director of the Things That Think Consortium, which examines the extreme future of embedded computation and sensing.

Herbert Deutsch:

Composer, educator & inventor. Professor Emeritus of Electronic Music and Composition at Hofstra University.

Dave Smith:

Engineer & musician. Known as the "Father of MIDI" for his role in the development of MIDI.

Don Buchla:

Synthesizer pioneer and founder of electronic music equipment company Buchla and Associates.

Forrest M. Mims III:


Author, researcher, lecturer and columnist. Written more than 60 books about science, lasers, computers, and electronics.

Keith Emerson:

English keyboardist and composer; founder of Emerson, Lake and Palmer; acknowledged as the one of the most technically accomplished keyboardist in rock history.

TICKET INFO:

Moogfest 2014 will attract 50,000 people (10,000 per day) from a cross-section of creative professionals, hackers, influencers and trendsetters, circuit benders, designers, programmers, audio engineers, new media artists, coders, and bedroom producers, seeking to be inspired in their work.

General Admission and VIP tickets for Moogfest are available now at Moogfest.com (http://www.moogfest.com/). Phase 1 tickets start at $199 for 5-Day General Admission and $499 for 5-Day VIP Admission while supplies last through December 19 when Phase 2 pricing raises to $299 for General Admission. Single day passes will be available for $99 when the programing schedule is announced.  All ticket prices are exclusive of applicable fees.

Moogfest also offers a limited run of the Moogfest Engineer VIP Package for $1,000 and the very exclusive Legacy VIP Package for $10,000 all available through the Moogfest Website.

Moogfest VIP Package - $499*

● VIP's Get in First EVERYWHERE

● Priority Festival Check In

● VIP Entrance at Each Venue

● VIP lounge at US Cellular Center with Private Bar and Wi-Fi

● Reserved Seating and Areas for VIPs

● Moogfest 2014 Program

● Moogfest T-Shirt

● Moogfest Gift Bag

● Exclusive Invitations to VIP Only Events

● Much More To Be Announced

Moogfest Engineer VIP - $1000*

● Two x 3-hour synth building workshops where guests have the opportunity to build, modify, and keep a new, unreleased synth module with the Moog engineers who designed it at the Moog factory, Asheville

● PLUS all the benefits of the VIP ticket

Legacy VIP - $10,000*

● Minimoog Voyager XL

● Minimoog Voyager XL Flight Case

● Transfers to and from Asheville Regional Airport to Moogfest

● 6 Night Stay at Asheville's The Omni Grove Park Inn

● 2 Seats at a Private Dinner With Keith Emerson

● PLUS all the benefits of the Engineer VIP ticket

*Plus Applicable fees