- Robert Margouleff
Infobox Musical artist
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Name = Robert Margouleff
Background = Music Producer, Film Producer, Sound Engineer
Birth_name = Robert Margouleff
Born =New York ,United States
Genre =Electronic music ,Synthpop ,Funk , Soul, Rock, R&B
Occupation =Music Producer ,Film Producer , Recording engineer,
Years_active = 1960–presentRobert Margouleff is a
Grammy Award winning Americanrecord producer , recording engineer,electronic music pioneer, audio expert, and film producer.Most noted for his work with
electronic music synthesizer programming forStevie Wonder (beginning in the 1970s) for award-winning albums including "Music of My Mind ", "Talking Book ", "Innervisions ", "Fulfillingness' First Finale " and "Jungle Fever", all projects which featured Margouleff (with collaboratorMalcolm Cecil ) as associate producers, engineers and synthesizer programmers.By helping Stevie Wonder develop many new textures and sounds never heard before, Margouleff and Cecil played a major role in bringing
synthesizer s to the forefront of popular music. As an influential electronic music duo -Tonto's Expanding Head Band - they recorded the album "Zero Time" (1971) attracting attention from many other leading artists of that era to the newly emerging music technology.Robert Margouleff was an early customer, friend and collaborator of fellow New Yorker and music instrument pioneer
Robert Moog contributing early insight toward Moog's musical instrument development for artists to routinely program and use synthesizers as part of their evolving sound ecology.Robert also worked with / produced
Billy Preston ,Devo ,Jeff Beck ,Robin Trower ,David Sanborn ,Depeche Mode ,Oingo Boingo ,The Doobie Brothers ,Quincy Jones ,Bobby Womack ,The Isley Brothers ,Gil Scott-Heron andWeather Report ,Steven Stills ,Dave Mason ,Little Feat ,Joan Baez ,Steve Hillage , and many others.Robert also was an early creative resource at Andy Warhol's "factory" eventually co-producing
Ciao! Manhattan a semi-biographical Cult Film tale of 1960s counterculture iconEdie Sedgwick as one ofAndy Warhol 's "Superstars".Later career, 1995–present
Robert Margouleff is currently principal founder of MiCasa MultMedia in
Hollywood ,California a leading boutique,surround sound (multi-channel audio), mixing studio specializing in home theatre DTS,DVD /HD DVD releases for major motion picture studios. MiCasa Multimedia studios is located in a former home of actorBéla Lugosi .Discography
* 1971: "Zero Time" (
Tonto's Expanding Head Band )
* 1972: "Talking Book " (Stevie Wonder )
* 1973: "Innervisions " (Stevie Wonder)
* 1974: "Fulfillingness' First Finale " (Stevie Wonder)
* 1975: "It's My Pleasure " (Tonto's Expanding Head Band)
* 1975: "It's About Time" (Tonto's Expanding Head Band)
* 1992: "Freedom To Fly " (Tony MacAlpine )Awards and recognition
*
Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical – 1974
**Malcolm Cecil & Robert Margouleff (engineers) for "Innervisions " performed byStevie Wonder External links
* [http://www.micasamm.com Mi Casa Multimedia]
* [http://www.tontosexpandingheadband.com Tonto's Expanding Head Band]
* [http://www.synthmuseum.com/tonto/index.html Virtual Synthesizer Museum's TONTO page]
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