A 1969 article telling the story of Wendy Carlos’ “Switched-On Bach” seminal album. A collection of pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach performed on the Moog modular synthesizer, “Switched-On Bach” legitimized the electronic synthesizer as a real musical instrument and changed forever the public perception of electronic music, showing that it could be something very different from ” the academy approved ‘ugly’ music, “as Carlos put it.
Ivan Berger
For more than fifty years, Ivan Berger has written about technology. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wired, Popular Photography, Playboy, Reader's Digest, Road & Track, Saturday Review, and hundreds more.