THE SOUND OF SCIENCE: Knoxville’s Dave “Seva” Ball — a musical whiz who was a founder of AudioAnimation and Waves, and who mastered both the first album I ever produced, and Helen’s film, Six — is now working to preserve Bob Moog’s tape archive. “In January, he embarked on his most unusual assignment: to rescue the earliest recordings of one his personal heroes before they disintegrated from an onslaught of mold and decay. Under a grant from the Grammy Foundation, he’s been working with the Bob Moog Foundation in Asheville, N.C., to meticulously clean, preserve, and digitize the audible history of the synthesizer in his garage-turned-studio. Or at least as much of it as he can—the grant only covers a sixth of the tapes requiring restoration, and the clock is ticking.”