Search giant Google on Wednesday honored American electronic music pioneer Robert Moog – and threatened to wreak havoc on office productivity – with a doodle of a playable and recordable Moog synthesizer.
Visitors to Google's homepage (www.google.com) were greeted with a doodle of an interactive synthesizer where users can adjust settings such as the mixers, oscillators, and filters.
They could even record their works and share them on Google+, Google's social network.
A link appears on the lower right part of the doodle explaining the reason for its presence: Robert Moog's 78th birth anniversary.
Clicking on it will lead the user to a Search Results page for Robert Moog.
Moog, born May 23, 1934 and died on August 21, 2005, was the founder of Moog Music, and an American pioneer of electronic music.
He was credited for an innovative electronic design now in numerous synthesizers including the Minimoog Model D, Minimoog Voyager, Little Phatty, Moog Taurus Bass Pedals, Moog Minitaur, the Animoog iOS app, and the Moogerfooger line of effects pedals.
Interactive doodle
An article on tech site Mashable said this was not the first time Google created a playable Doodle.
Last year, it noted Google released its wildly popular Les Paul Google Doodle to commemorate the guitar legend.
Users spent hours playing with the Les Paul doodle, recording their works and posting them on YouTube.
"Millions of manhours will be at stake at workplaces around the world as Google honors the American electrical engineer Robert 'Bob' Moog with a digital replica of the Moog electronic music synthesizer on his 78th birthday," a separate article on IBN Live said.
It noted that with the virtual Moog synthesizer on the Google home page, "users can not only create their own music on using the digital 24-key keyboard but also use the volume, mixer, oscillators, filter and envelope controls to tweak the sound that is music to their ears."
Logged-in Google users can also record and share their compositions on the Moog Google doodle synthesizer on Google+.
Other users can also record their compositions and get a short g.co URL leading to a version of the Google home page that plays the recorded music. — LBG, GMA News
source: gmanetwork.com
