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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 January 2025. American composer and electronic musician (born 1939) Wendy Carlos Born (1939-11-14) November 14, 1939 (age 85) Pawtucket, Rhode Island, U.S. Genres Electronic classical ambient jazz Occupations Musician composer record producer Instruments Keyboards synthesizer vocoder Years active 1964 ...
Switched-On Bach is the debut album by the American composer Wendy Carlos, released in October 1968 by Columbia Records.Produced by Carlos and Rachel Elkind, the album is a collection of pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach performed by Carlos and Benjamin Folkman on a Moog synthesizer.
In 1969, during the unexpected commercial success of her debut studio album Switched-On Bach (1968), Carlos and her friend, collaborator, and producer Rachel Elkind started work on a follow-up using the same formula as Switched-On Bach: performing selections of classical music on a modular Moog synthesizer. Carlos planned to record an ...
Switched-On Brandenburgs is a 1980 double album by Wendy Carlos. [3] It was the seventh album released by Carlos, and the fourth album in her project of classical music which also included Switched-On Bach (1968), The Well-Tempered Synthesizer (1969), and Switched-On Bach II (1974). [4]
A few days back, Moog teased a new synthesizer that we would come to meet properly as the Sub Phatty. Once we hit the show floor here in California, we made sure to drop by for live look. The ...
Switched-On Rock is an album by the Moog Machine, released in 1969 on Columbia Records. It comprises instrumental covers of popular songs from the 1960s, performed on the Moog synthesizer. It was one of a spate of albums capitalizing on the success of Switched-On Bach (1968), an album of Bach pieces performed on the Moog by Wendy Carlos.
In 1968, Wendy Carlos released Switched-On Bach, an album of Bach compositions arranged for Moog synthesizer. It won three Grammy Awards and was the first classical album certified platinum . [ 19 ] [ 5 ] The album is credited for popularising the Moog and demonstrating that synthesizers could be more than "random noise machines". [ 7 ]
Wendy Carlos's Switched-On Bach (1968), recorded using a Moog influenced numerous musicians of that era and is one of the most popular recordings of classical music ever made. [24] The sound of the Moog also reached the mass market with Simon and Garfunkel's Bookends in 1968 [25] and The Beatles' Abbey Road (1969). [26]