Listen to this, it is fuck all awesome

[TVC15]

http://indarktrees.com/pics/Wendy%20Carlos%20-%20Switched%20On%20Bach%20-%2008%20-%20Prelude%20and%20Fugue%20%232%20in%20C%20Minor.mp3

 

I am a classical musician, recording engineer, and hear tons of music daily. I never get tired of J.S. Bach's music, and the amazing performances of Walter/Wendy Carlos do not wear thin. I have a pretty good idea of how Carlos put these tracks together, and why, and over what time period and under what conditions. I know how hard it is to pay Bach's complex music well, and I am very familiar with the huge difficulties in even approximating those performance values on multi-tracked synthesizer without MIDI, computer assistance, or sequencers. I also know that Carlos did this work at home using a very limited home-built multi-track recorder and mixer, on an instrument that was not at all refined, even for an early synth. And yet the music sings, and jumps out of the speakers, and dances and lives.

The work of others is simple organ playing by comparison. Carlos did the impossible, and the results are still marvelous today.

[Phoenix Dark]

sounds like someone put classical music in an SNES game. meh

[TVC15]

Whatever Phoenix cigarillo.  That's from 1968, before PCs even existed, and it still sounds fuck awesome.  Go listen to your Tupac and those decidedly non-talented rappers and producers.

[Phoenix Dark]

RZA>Wendy's

tsk tsk

[TVC15]

RZA>Wendy's

tsk tsk

RZA would WAH WAH WAH if confronted with the possibility of making music without a PC, much less with an OG model Moog.

[Phoenix Dark]

Meh, being the first doesn't mean you're the best. 2001 had better music than A Clockwork Orange, despite being the vastly inferior film

John Williams>Wendy Carlos

[TVC15]

Meh, being the first doesn't mean you're the best. 2001 had better music than A Clockwork Orange, despite being the vastly inferior film

John Williams>Wendy Carlos

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What does John Williams have to do with this discussion?  I never made that comparison, and I probably wouldn't.  As a matter of fact, I didn't say anything AT ALL about Carlos's ability as a film scorer in this thread. Whether 2001 had a better score than ACO (it doesn't btw; see my reading of ACO by only its score.  You can't do that with 2001) is irrelevant to the discussion; the discussion being that Wendy Carlos made some cool as fuck, ahead of her time music in the 60s, and that scoring Bach on that same model of Moog today would still be an accomplishment.

But being dated also has little to do with how fucking cool the music is.

[Phoenix Dark]

You're too easy to troll TVC. 

for the record I loved the music in Clockwork Orange

[TVC15]

You're too GAY and BLACK!

[Phoenix Dark]

You're too GAY and BLACK!

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[aoi tsuki]

You're too GAY and BLACK!

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Which are you, milk chocolate or special dark chocolate?

[tiesto]

sounds like someone put classical music in an SNES game. awesome!

Fixed.

[Gay Boy]

PD cant be gay, he shows no emotions IRL. It's almost creepy. He never smiles and say everything in a monotone voice. It's almost like he has never had social interactions with humans before. He is like Spock from Star Trek.