Switched On Bach Mog Analysis

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There are other precursors like the Novachord and the Ondes Martenot, which used a sliding metal piece in addition to a keyboard to create pitches, but it wasn’t until 1964 that Robert Moog released the first voltage controlled synthesizer. Moog said in his documentary: Synthesizer Documentary ~ Moog by Hans Fjellestad: ‘In retrospective it looks like it was meant to happen. I was building and selling Theremin kits, because of that I met Herbert Deutsch who was a musician, using them in his music classes; because we met he invited me to his concert; because I went to his concert I learned about electronic music; because Herbert and I talked about making electronic music I got ideas about the synthesizer; because I got some ideas for the synthesizer we built the equipment; we showed it to one person who then told an official of the audio engineering society about it and then was invited to display the equipment… My favorite way of …show more content…

The album ‘Switched-On Bach’ was one of the first successful albums to introduce a full electronic sound to the public and was a big success, Clockwork Orange’s theme in the other hand utilized synthesizers for its sounds, sounds that people were not used to yet, that would go in hand with the strange setting of the movie. John Foxx says in his ‘Man Machine: The Influence of the Synthesizer on Popular Music 1971-1983‘ essay: ‘While Wendy had garnered great success for her 1968 album Switched on Bach, an album that explored similarly electronic reimagining’s of classical music, The Clockwork Orange soundtrack was the first to truly realize the scope of the instrument. … This new brand of musical invention tied into the zeitgeist at the time, whetting the public’s appetite for new futuristic sounds unlike anything that had been witnessed

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