You may not have any idea who Wendy Carlos is or what her groundbreaking debut album sounds like. You might not be familiar with the very strange musical instrument she helped introduce to the world ...

Brian Wilson was one of the Beach Boys’ songwriters, appearing as a founding member of the surf rock group. Here’s what this composer said about one of the ‘most electrifying’ albums he’s ever heard.

Few recordings change the way the world listens to music, but “Switched-On Bach” must be counted among them. When the album was released in late 1968, it quickly became the bestselling classical ...

When Wendy Carlos—then, before an operation, known as Walter Carlos—released Switched-On Bach, a 1968 recording of the composer's music arranged for the Moog synthesizer, it expressed a side of Bach's ...

Those of us who have been around long enough to remember the surprising sounds of "Switched-On Bach" will also recall a time when acoustic instruments were the only game in town. Most pop tunes are ...

Over at the website of the Bob Moog Foundation, electronic music historian Thom Holmes has an interesting post about some lesser-known cinematic uses of the Moog, the pioneering analog synthesizer ...

Electronic music composer Wendy Carlos - whose debut album Switched-On Bach introduced a new audience to classical music - explains the fundamentals of electronic sound using her Moog Synthesiser, and ...

Mark Micchelli considers his new album “Glitched-On Bop” to be a spiritual successor to “Switched-On Bach,” a 1968 album by Wendy Carlos that was the first to use synthesizers to create classical ...

In 1968, Wendy Carlos released the album Switched-On Bach, which featured selections of classical music played on a synthesizer. The Beatles accomplished something very similar in 1969 with “Because.” ...