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Switched-On Bach II is a musical album by Wendy Carlos in 1973 on Columbia Records and produced by Carlos and Rachel Elkind and is a sequel to the 1968 album Switched-On Bach. In February 1974, Billboard reported that the album had sold over 70,000 copies in its first five weeks of release.
Switched-On Bach II è un album musicale di Wendy Carlos, originariamente pubblicato con il suo nome di nascita, Walter Carlos, nel 1973 sull'etichetta Columbia Records e prodotto dalla Carlos e Rachel Elkind ed è il sequel dell'album Switched-On Bach del 1968.
Album, Enhanced, Reissue. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2002 CD release of "Switched-On Bach II" on Discogs.
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Switched-On Bach II by Wendy Carlos released in 2001. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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Around 1967, Carlos asked the musician Rachel Elkind to listen to her electronic compositions. They included compositions written ten years earlier, and some written from 1964 with her friend Benjamin Folkman at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York City. One recording was a rendition of Two-Part Invention in F major by Johann ...
Switched-On Bach features ten pieces by Bach available under the public domain, performed by Carlos, with assistance from Folkman, on a Moog synthesizer. Carlos worked closely with Moog designer Robert Moog, testing his components and suggesting improvements. Most of the album was recorded in a rented studio apartment in which Carlos lived at 410 W...
Switched-On Bachwas released with two different covers. The most common features a man dressed as Bach standing before a Moog synthesizer. The first pressing featured the same man seated, as shown above. Carlos and Elkind objected to the original cover and had it replaced, finding it "was a clownish, trivializing image of a mugging Bach, supposedly...
In 1968, shortly before the release of Switched-On Bach, Robert Moog spoke at the annual Audio Engineering Societyconference and played one of Carlos' recordings from the album. Moog recalled: "I walked off the stage and went to the back of the auditorium while people were listening, and I could feel it in the air. They were jumping out of their sk...
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Switched-On Bach. 1. Wendy Carlos(originally credited as Walter Carlos) – synthesizer, programming 2. Benjamin Folkman – supplementary keyboards 3. Rachel Elkind– production
Switched-On Bach at MusicBrainzSwitched-On Bach at Discogs(list of releases)The result, Switched-On Bach II, was released in 1973 and sold over 70,000 copies in the US during the first five weeks of its release. Following Switched-On Bach II, Carlos changed musical directions once more.
28 giu 2023 · The resulting album, Switched-On Bach (1968), was her effort to create, as she says on the Wendy Carlos website, “appealing music you could really listen to. It was certainly not about any revival of Bach. It was just lovely music, eminently suited for this stage of the development of Bob Moog’s new synthesizer.
