In 1968, Wendy Carlos released SWITCHED-ON BACH, a collection of music by Johann Sebastian Bach played on the Moog synthesizer. The multiple Grammy award-winning album introduced people to the ...

American composer, engineer, inventor and genre creator Wendy Carlos is one of the most innovative figures in the world of synthesizers and electronic music. After studying physics and music at Brown ...

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 ...

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.” ...