Switched-on Bach

…the project that would become Switched-On Bach in 1967, and the work was laborious. Because of the monophonic output—one note at a time—of the synthesizer, her use of a custom-built eight-track tape recorder, and the manual work needed to retune and calibrate the electronic instrument between recordings, Carlos estimates that…

Switched-on Bach, the music of J.S. Bach transcribed for Moog synthesizer and recorded by Wendy Carlos and Benjamin Folkman in 1968, achieved a dramatic commercial success. In the years following the appearance of Switched-on Bach, many synthesizer recordings of traditional and popular music appeared, and…

…early, commercially successful album called Switched-on Bach (1968), arrangements made by Wendy Carlos on a Moog synthesizer. The record displayed technical excellence in the sounds created and made the electronic synthesis of music more intelligible to the general listening public. This is useful so long as it is realized that…

…on a Moog synthesizer (Switched-On Bach, 1968). She made other recordings of Baroque music on synthesizer as well, adapting for one recording the name The Well-Tempered Synthesizer (1969). One also may encounter selections from the complete set transcribed for other instruments and combinations of instruments, especially for string quartet.