1972 was a great year for synthesiser music. Some of the greatest electronic music performances ever come from this year Although the early seventies are seen in hindsight as something of "the dark ...
Wendy Carlos at work in her New York City recording studio, 1979. (Photo by Leonard M. DeLessio/Corbis via Getty Images) Wendy Carlos would hate the way I’ve written about her. For decades, the ...
When Wendy Carlos—then, before an operation, known as Walter Carlos—released Switched-On Bach, a 1968 recording of the composer's music arranged for the Moog synthesizer, it expressed a side of Bach's ...