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Switched-On Bach (Music)
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Switched-On Bach is the 1968 debut album by American electronic musician Wendy Carlosnote initially credited under her deadname, as Carlos did not come out as a transgender woman until 1979, released through Columbia Records' Classical Music imprint, Columbia Masterworks. This Cover Album performs the music of Johann Sebastian Bach on a Moog synthesizer, which at the time was a new and controversial move. Bach was held in high esteem among music fans and the very idea that someone who dared to tamper with his work by giving it a modernized sound was considered blasphemous by some. Others believed that Bach would have approached a synthesizer as just another type of organ. Indeed, in his own day, Bach was closely involved with instrument makers, and followed technical innovations; The Well-Tempered Clavier was written to show off new techniques in piano building and tuning that would allow an instrument to be played in tune in any key.Still, the album was a colossal best-seller in a way that Classical Music had never experienced in decades. Many youngsters who felt that Classical Music Is Boring did enjoy listening to it in this format. Furthermore, the album proved that Electronic Music could be profitable and merited according to its own terms. Carlos herself followed it up with similar albums in this vein, including the soundtrack for the film A Clockwork Orange, and countless other electronic composers have tried to imitate her by also making synthesizer renditions of other classical works. Even renowned classical performers E. Power Biggs, Zoltán Rozsnyai, Pablo Casals and Glenn Gould, who liked the work, released a classical music album called "Switched Off Bach" (1972).Switched-On Bach won three Grammy Awards, including "Best Classical Album", and it was inducted into the National Recording Registry in 2005 for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". It was one of the first uses of an electronic instrument in a way that could be taken seriously by musical purists i.e. not used as for sound effects in sci-fi movies, thus demonstrating what a synthesizer could really do. To some listeners, the clean and precise tones produced by the analog circuits gave increased clarity to Bach's original writing, even if producing the recordings was incredibly difficult.note The early Moog could only generate one note at a time, meaning that to play a chord, each note in the chord had to be recorded separately, then the multiple tracks overlaid into the final piece, with extreme care to make sure that all parts were played at the exact same tempo and synchronized correctly. | |
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Dropped link to ClassicalMusic: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
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Dropped link to ElectronicMusic: Not a Feature - IGNORE | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Johann Sebastian Bach is portrayed by an actor on the cover. | |
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New Sound Album | |
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New Sound Album: Not so much in content, as this is music everyone already heard before, but in sound, as this was the first full electronic music rendition of classical music. | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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Anachronism Stew: Bach is portrayed on the album cover standing/sitting in front of a Moog modular synthesizer. | |
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Rock Me, Amadeus! | |
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Rock Me, Amadeus!: Music by the baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach played on a Moog synthesizer. | |
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Double Meaning | |
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Double Meaning: The album is prominently credited to “Trans-Electronic Music Productions, Inc.� Some time after its release, Wendy Carlos came out as a trans electronic musician. | |
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Synth-Pop | |
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Synth-Pop: One of the landmark albums. | |
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Cantata | |
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Cantata: "Sinfonia to Cantata No. 29" and "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring", from "Cantata No. 147". | |
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Covers Always Lie | |
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Covers Always Lie: As discussed, the original cover photo was replaced for failing at Artistic License – Music, and for giving the impression that Bach would have been displeased with the synthesized sounds. | |
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Instrumentals | |
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Instrumentals: The whole album, owed to Classical Music's natural propensity for this trope. | |
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REmake | |
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Remake: The 1992 Switched-On Bach 2000 is a remake of the original with the same tracks, but with different digital sounds. | |
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Sequel | |
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Sequel: Switched-On Bach (1968) was followed by similar electronic Bach versions, such as The Well-Tempered Synthesizer (1969), Switched-On Bach II (1973), Switched-On Brandenburgs (1979) and Switched-On Bach 2000 (1992). | |
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Cover Album | |
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Cover Album: All music is by Johann Sebastian Bach. | |
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Updated Re-release | |
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Updated Re-release: After Carlos publicly came out as trans in 1979, this and her other albums were reissued under her preferred name. | |
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Classical Music Is Cool | |
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Classical Music Is Cool: Bach's compositions brought gravitas to the emerging genre of Electronic Music. The result became wildly popular, showing there was plenty of life in Baroque Music many people might have thought was old and stuffy. | |
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Artistic License – Music | |
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Artistic License – Music: The original cover features Bach reacting in disgust at the sounds of the synthesizer. However, the earphones are plugged into the input jack of a 914 Filter module, which is itself connected to nothing. This, combined with the fact that he is not playing anything at the moment the picture is taken, means that Bach wouldn't have heard anything. These inaccuracies is one of the reasons the cover was replaced. | |
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In the Style of | |
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In the Style of: For the re-release, Carlos wrote a Second Movement for the Third Brandenburg (which doesn't have a Second Movement) which sounds as if Bach wrote it. | |
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Alternate Album Cover | |
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Alternate Album Cover: The initial release featured a cover photo of a man dressed as Bach sitting and listening to the album through Carlos' synthesizer, bewildered at the results. Carlos had the cover pulled both because of its silliness and because of its inaccurate depiction of how one would use a synthesizer. The replacement photo instead features a more traditionally dignified Bach standing upright. | |
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The Future Is Shocking | |
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The Future Is Shocking: The original cover showed Bach being bewildered by the sound of Carlos’s electronic music. | |
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