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Owed to my father's long interest in electronic music, I'm the thankful owner of several of the 1960s/1970s original print Walter Carlos-attributed vinyl record
by daneel_w 4y ago
Owed to my father's long interest in electronic music, I'm the thankful owner of several of the 1960s/1970s original print Walter Carlos-attributed vinyl records and a few of the 1980s Wendy Carlos-attributed ones. Switched-On Bach/Brandenburgs, Sonic Seasonings, The Well-Tempered Synthesizer etc. all played a large part in my discovery of electronic music as a child.
- wslh 4y agoThe first Bach I heard as a kid were those vinyl records. Never thought about them as electronic music, just after getting a little bit older I realized this was connected with computers. I was always impressed by the covers [1]. The interesting thing is that these vinyl records were at home and at my grandparents home who love classical music. The impact of Wendy Carlos evidently goes beyond electronics. [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=wendy+carlos+electronic+bach+cover&sxsrf=ALiCzsb71ztTukphaHXBylEVfzGSx3N3tw:1671125088733&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiK4qeKkvz7AhV8vJUCHSeTCLgQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1920&bih=901&dpr=1 https://www.google.com/search?q=wendy+carlos+electronic+bach...
- Blackthorn 4y agoWould you be willing to work with an archivist to make these public? (I'm not one, to be clear.) Carlos recordings seem impossible to find!
- anamexis 4y agoThe Discogs marketplace seems to have plenty of them. https://www.discogs.com/artist/16261-Wendy-Carlos https://www.discogs.com/artist/16261-Wendy-Carlos
- Blackthorn 4y agoMaybe I'm just today's lucky ten thousand then.
- TchoBeer 4y agoYou have no idea how long I've looked for this, thank you so much lol. edit: wait, is this just a place that sells physical copies?
- Blackthorn 4y agoLooks like it :-/ was hoping I could find digital recordings.
- anamexis 4y agoYes, Discogs is basically the IMDb of musical recordings. Its marketplace is probably the best place on the internet to find and sell physical copies of pretty much any musical recording. They don't sell or host digital recordings, presumably for copyright reasons.
- daneel_w 4y agoRipping these original vinyl editions is already somewhere on my list of things-to-do-before-I-get-too-old. Currently I don't have a functional pickup for my record player. I will get around to it, some day. The Switched-On Boxed Set (CDs) was released in the late 90s, and I happen to have ripped that one about 20 years ago. I should do another FLAC or high-quality AAC rip of that box, for posterity, before eventual CD rot happens.
- quesera 4y agoThese are still copyrighted recordings, and they seem to be available in the usual places you would find copyrighted digital audio. Her work is not licensed for digital distribution, and largely out of print. So, there's unfortunately no way to compensate her directly for her works. And "work" is an understatement. Moog synths of the day were barely instruments. Imagine playing a symphony (symphonic arrangement) using only a single glass filled with water. You could get any note you wanted, but only one at a time and even that required constant retuning.
- relaxing 4y agoIt’s not quite as a bad as a single glass. More like 61 glasses, but you can only strike one at a time. And on the other hand, you can glissando smoothly between any 2 notes. Not many other instruments in the orchestra can say that! Pitch drift due to temperature fluctuations was quite bad, it’s true, but it becomes part of the charm of those “switched-on” records.
- daneel_w 4y agoSome of it made it to CD, like the Switched-On Boxed Set.
- kabdib 4y agoI was 8 when my dad handed me a set of headphones and had me listen to the first few minutes of Switched On Bach. Still vividly remember that experience, it was like a rapture. Wendy's works are tough to find on streaming services these days. I'd love to listen to Timesteps again, from A Clockwork Orange.
- jacquesm 4y agoYoutube provides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOjCTifs-uY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOjCTifs-uY
- kabdib 4y agoThat's not it, but thanks. Here's a pretty good recreation, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjWD-CnasPc&list=PLGxaqBTVsgeOAH_CO8zdIYl1uWWDaMegi&index=8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjWD-CnasPc&list=PLGxaqBTVsg... I've been unable to find the original. I'll keep looking.
- defrost 4y agoRippable from a Vimeo vinyl recording here: https://vimeo.com/254916343 https://vimeo.com/254916343 I've still got an original I bought in the late 70s (?) out in the shed.