Wendy Carlos - Switched-On Bach flac album

Switched-On Bach is the first studio album by the American composer Wendy Carlos, released under her birth name Walter Carlos in October 1968 by Columbia Records.

Wendy Carlos had come up with an artistically valid and musically legitimate approach to the most tradition-bound of all classical music that made it not only palatable but exciting to a generation of listeners more inclined toward the Beatles than Beethoven (much less Bach)

Released October 1968. Switched-On Bach Tracklist. 1. Sinfonia to Cantata No. 29 Lyrics. 2. Air on a G String Lyrics. About Switched-On Bach. Bearing Carlos' original name of Walter Carlos, the album was conceived by Carlos not as an attempt to revive Bach but because she was dissatisfied with the use of electronic instruments before 1968 and wanted to use them to play appealing music. The album was a smash, peaking at No. 10 on the Billboard chart, staying at the top of Billboard’s classical chart for three years, being certified platinum, and winning three Grammy Awards. Switched-On Bach Q&A

Wendy Carlos’s 1968 album of Bach music for Moog synthesiser brought electronic music into the mainstream and influenced artists from Giorgio Moroder to Daft Punk. Wendy Carlos: At the time ‘Switched-On Bach’ was released, the composer was six months into transgender hormone therapy, and still known as Carlos. Photograph: GAB Archive/Redferns. Daft Punk: when composing the soundtrack for ‘Tron: Legacy’ in 2010, the French duo leaned heavily on Wendy Carlos’s soundtrack for the original 1982 film. Photograph: Chad Batka/New York Times. Carlos had successful collaborations with Stanley Kubrick on the soundtracks of ‘A Clockwork Orange’ and ‘The Shining’. Wendy Carlos at work in her New York City recording studio in 1979.

Following Switched-On Bach II, Carlos changed musical directions once more. The ideas received were divided; some asked for more classical adaptations, while others wanted more of Carlos' original compositions. Switched-On Bach was the winner of three 1969 Grammy Awards:. Album of the Year, Classical. Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist Or Soloists (With Or Without Orchestra).

Switched on Bach 2000. Yes, album - the black round things called LPs. This album got me hooked on Bach's music lock, stock, and barrel. I recall many music officinados critized this work as being virtual blasphemy towards Bach. Word was that the great organist and Bach scholar, E. Power Biggs, was extremely pained to witness the Master's work being so desecrated. I distinctly remember at a usual Friday night beer bash, Bruce and a calculus teaching assistant (Wirjadi?); almost got into a fist fight over whether this was genuine music or a coarse mechanical device imitating art and making a fast buck for.

SwitchedOn Bach Wendy Carlos. This album has an average beat per minute of BPM (slowest/fastest tempos:, BPM). See its BPM profile at the bottom of the page. Tracklist SwitchedOn Bach. Album starts at BPM, ends at BPM (+0), with tempos within the -BPM range. Try refreshing the page if dots are missing). Recent albums by Wendy Carlos.

Switched-On Bach is the first studio album by the American musician and composer Wendy Carlos, released under her birth name. The album had sold over one million copies by June 1974 and in 1986 became the second classical album in history to be certified

Switched on Bach 1. Usage. rcial-No Derivative Works . First synthesiser exeperiments by Walter Carlos. External metadata update. 2019-04-10T01:41:58Z. I was 11 when I first heard, and had to have, this album on reel to reel tape. I played it all the time at home. I saw Clockwork Orange when I was 'old enough' and before it was banned. There was the same music! Without a Wendy is the musician that instilled a love of music in my soul.