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What Are You Listening To Right Now?


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Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now?

 

Wendy Carlos' controversial and enormously popular electronic-classical album Switched-On Bach. When it came out she (who was then a he, at least technically) was called a blasphemer by many music critics. Her counter-argument was that a Bach who lived in the 20th Century would have used the Moog synthesizer himself (as in his lifetime he had embraced new instrument technologies like the clavier, which was a forerunner of the modern piano).

 

This was sort of like Falco saying that a 20th-century Mozart would have made pop music rather than classical (and given Mozart's rock-star-like status in his day Falco may have had a point).

 

Carlos would make three more albums of Bach and contemporaries for the Moog. She also scored the films A Clockwork Orange and TRON, and collaborated with Weird Al Yankovic on an adaptation of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. I'm not sure what she plays now that the Moog is obsolete and most everyone has equivalent instruments on their desks at home.

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