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447:, meaning only one note can be played at a time, each track was assembled one at a time. Carlos said: "You had to release the note before you could make the next note start, which meant you had to play with a detached feeling on the keyboard, which was really very disturbing in making music." The synthesizer was unreliable and often went out of tune; Carlos recalled hitting it with a hammer prior to recording to obtain correct levels. After several notes were played, it was checked again to make sure it had not drifted. 354: 195: 470:
replaced, finding it "was a clownish, trivializing image of a mugging Bach, supposedly hearing some absurd sound from his earphones". They also objected to the fact that the synthesizer was incorrectly set up: " were plugged into the input, not output, of a 914 filter module, which in turn was connected to nothing, that silence is all that would have greeted Johann Sebastian's ears."
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to commemorate the 25th anniversary of her first album, featuring a re-recording of the record using digital synthesizers and computer-assisted recording with an added introductory composition styled as a birthday fanfare for the project. In 2001, a remastered edition was released with a previously
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conference and played one of Carlos' recordings from the album. Moog recalled: "I walked off the stage and went to the back of the auditorium while people were listening, and I could feel it in the air. They were jumping out of their skins. These technical people were involved in so much flim-flam,
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was released with two different covers. The most common features a man dressed as Bach standing before a Moog synthesizer. The first pressing featured the same man seated, as shown above, with no credit to Carlos on the front cover. Carlos and Elkind objected to this original cover and had it
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so much shoddy, opportunistic stuff, and here was something that was just impeccably done and had obvious musical content and was totally innovative. The tape got a standing ovation."
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by Hans Wurman. Moog credited the album for demonstrating that synthesizers could be used for more than avant-garde music and sound effects. He said of the album's success:
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Following the album's success, Moog received requests from producers and artists for his synthesizers. A number of other Moog synthesizer albums were released, such as
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to listen to her electronic compositions. They included compositions written ten years earlier, and some written from 1964 with her friend Benjamin Folkman at the
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was received negative reviews from some classical music traditionalists, but gained popularity among many younger listeners. In a retrospective review for
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Classical Albums chart from 1969 to 1972. By June 1974, it had sold over one million copies, and in 1986 became the second classical album to be certified
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unreleased track, "Initial Experiments, demonstration". Carlos wrote: "You may rest assured that this is the best these recordings have ever sounded."
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reported the album's sales surpassed one million, the second classical music record in history to achieve the feat. In August 1969, it was certified
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before it reached a peak of No. 10 that year, for a total of 59 weeks on the chart. From January 1969 to January 1972, the album was No. 1 on the
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tape machine in Gotham Recording Studios at 2 West 46th Street, where Carlos had brought Moog equipment for a commercial project.
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amended the artist credit to reflect her name, as was the case with the rest of her discography up to that point.
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Classical Albums chart, and it reached the seventh position of the Top 50 Albums chart of the Canadian magazine
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and became the album's producer. Elkind contacted her friend, producer and conductor Ettore Stratta at
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Soon after, Carlos began plans to produce an album of Bach pieces performed on the recently invented
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Drew University Music Department, current owner of the Moog synthesizer used for the cover photo
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took approximately five months and one thousand hours to produce. As the synthesizers were
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Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (With or Without Orchestra)
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Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (With or Without Orchestra)
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called it "one of the most electrifying albums I ever heard." It was inducted into the
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The Sound of Tomorrow: How Electronic Music Was Smuggled into the Mainstream
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was released in October 1968. In 1969, it entered the top 40 on the US
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A sample of "Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major - First Movement".
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musicians at the time. Elkind was impressed with the recording of
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Miller, Chuck (January 23, 2004). "Wendy Carlos: In the Moog".
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credits the album for bringing synthesizers to his attention.
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Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer
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Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer
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PINCH, T. J.; Trocco, Frank; Pinch, T. J. (June 30, 2009).
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to popular music, which had until then been mostly used in
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Sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord, BWV 1027–1029
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First Movement (Allegro) of Brandenburg Concerto Number 3
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Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major - Second Movement
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In 1972 Columbia Records released an orchestral album,
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Canonic Sonata for oboe, violin and continuo, BWV 1040
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Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major - Third Movement
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Six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord, BWV 1014–1019
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sold over a million, and just keeps going on and on.
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Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, BWV 1001–1006
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Index

Switched on Bach
A man dressed as Bach standing in front of a modular synthesizer, with the album title and track list written above him.
Studio album
Wendy Carlos
Genre
Electronic
baroque
Label
Columbia Masterworks
Producer
Rachel Elkind
Wendy Carlos
The Well-Tempered Synthesizer
The same album cover except the man dressed as Bach is sitting and wearing a pair of headphones plugged into the synthesizer
Wendy Carlos
Columbia Records
Rachel Elkind
Johann Sebastian Bach
Moog synthesizer
synthesizers
experimental music
Billboard 200
platinum
Grammy Awards
Best Classical Album
Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (With or Without Orchestra)
Best Engineered Classical Recording
transgender
Rachel Elkind
Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center

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