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Wendy Carlos is a well-known name (mostly for the Clockwork Orange soundtrack I think), but her recordings are not as accessible as they ought to be. That is, t

Wendy Carlos is a well-known name (mostly for the Clockwork Orange soundtrack I think), but her recordings are not as accessible as they ought to be. That is, there are no (legal) digital downloads or streaming options for her oeuvre, and the CD's and records have been out of print for years. I only recently discovered Switched-On Bach (and the other three albums that followed: Switched-On Bach II, The Well-Tempered Synthesizer, and Switched-On Brandenburgs), and you are right; these are really interesting performances of such well-known classical works. Worth exploring! And for a light classical snack: she created a 'sequel' to Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf and Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals with 'Weird Al' Yankovic in 1989!

gregsadetsky 6y ago
Side 1 of Switched on Bach on IA: https://archive.org/details/SwitchedOnBach2 https://archive.org/details/SwitchedOnBach2 Side 2: https://archive.org/details/SwitchedOnBach1 https://archive.org/details/SwitchedOnBach1 I also (weirdly?) found them hosted on the site of the Computer History Museum: Side 1 https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/sound-recording/2016/05/102695358-04-01-acc.mp3 https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/sound-r... Side 2 https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/sound-recording/2016/05/102695358-04-02-acc.mp3 https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/sound-r... An incredible masterpiece.
- isoprophlex 6y ago
  > https://archive.org/details/SwitchedOnBach2 https://archive.org/details/SwitchedOnBach2 Holy shit this sounds so much ... fun! It sounds so incredibly joyful on those synths! Thanks for posting, marvelous
rectang 6y ago
> her recordings are not as accessible as they ought to be I found an article from 2019 about that: "Where is Wendy Carlos?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23394457 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23394457

gregsadetsky 6y ago

Side 1 of Switched on Bach on IA: https://archive.org/details/SwitchedOnBach2 https://archive.org/details/SwitchedOnBach2 Side 2: https://archive.org/details/SwitchedOnBach1 https://archive.org/details/SwitchedOnBach1 I also (weirdly?) found them hosted on the site of the Computer History Museum: Side 1 https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/sound-recording/2016/05/102695358-04-01-acc.mp3 https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/sound-r... Side 2 https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/sound-recording/2016/05/102695358-04-02-acc.mp3 https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/sound-r... An incredible masterpiece.

isoprophlex 6y ago
> https://archive.org/details/SwitchedOnBach2 https://archive.org/details/SwitchedOnBach2 Holy shit this sounds so much ... fun! It sounds so incredibly joyful on those synths! Thanks for posting, marvelous

rectang 6y ago

> her recordings are not as accessible as they ought to be I found an article from 2019 about that: "Where is Wendy Carlos?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23394457 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23394457