Minimoog Voyager, The Smithsonian, and CC Zero

This is the Minimoog Voyager that J. Dilla used to create trend setting lo-fi Hip-Hop tracks that still influence music creation today.  Why is this picture so important?  Because it's part of the collection the Smithsonian recently released to the world using Creative Commons CC-0 licensing.

What?  Read on my #ccmusic music lovers....read on.

Smithsonian Releases 2.8 Million Images + Data into the Public Domain Using CC0

https://creativecommons.org/2020/02/27/smithsonian-releases-2-8-million-images-data-into-the-public-domain-using-cc0/

Minimoog Voyager synthesizer used by J Dilla

https://www.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2014.139.2a