Richard Teitelbaum

Richard Lowe Teitelbaum (May 19, 1939 - April 9, 2020) was an avant-garde composer, synthesizer keyboardist, and improvisor. He was a pioneer in live electronic music, brain-wave controlled synthesizer music, and brought many different world music performers together.

Richard was a professor of electronic music at Bard College for over 30 years and he was the first person to take a Moog synthesizer on tour in Europe with his group Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV) with Alvin Curran and Frederic Rzewski.

NPR's obituary of Richard Teitelbaum

The New York Time's obituary of Richard here