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It's great to see Wendy Carlos on the front page of Hacker News. I have an original pressing of her "Switched on Bach" framed in my living room.
by gwbas1c 6y ago
It's great to see Wendy Carlos on the front page of Hacker News. I have an original pressing of her "Switched on Bach" framed in my living room.
- jcpst 6y agoI picked it up at a thrift store, and that’s why I started a deep dive into modular synths. I almost forgot I was reading the article from a hacker news link, and not just from my own searching!
- dahart 6y agoI’m pretty sure I wore my dad’s original vinyl copy of Switched on Bach into near unplayability, as a child more than thirty years ago. Absolutely my favorite record of all time. The followups later with “better” synths never came close in my mind to the sounds and performance of the first one.
- jacquesm 6y agoProps!
- amysox 6y agoShe's one of my role models, so I'm pleased to see this as well. I have two of her albums: the hard-to-find CD of Peter and the Wolf she did with "Weird Al" Yankovic (the whole thing is a delightful spoof), and Switched-On Bach 2000, where she revisited her original electronic music album with modern synthesizers and authentic Bach tunings. (The liner notes are an education in themselves!)
- dang 6y agoRelated: How Wendy Carlos Changed Music - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16077589 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16077589 - Jan 2018 (43 comments)
- racl101 6y agoI still listen to original TRON soundtrack a lot while working. That and Blade Runner OST really hold up.