When Wendy Carlos—then, before an operation, known as Walter Carlos—released Switched-On Bach, a 1968 recording of the composer's music arranged for the Moog synthesizer, it expressed a side of Bach's ...

You may not have any idea who Wendy Carlos is or what her groundbreaking debut album sounds like. You might not be familiar with the very strange musical instrument she helped introduce to the world ...

In February 2023, Kim Petras made history as the first openly trans Grammy winner, but in doing so she stood on the shoulders of “transgender legends” – none more so than Wendy Carlos. Although Petras ...

Few recordings change the way the world listens to music, but “Switched-On Bach” must be counted among them. When the album was released in late 1968, it quickly became the bestselling classical ...

Cuesta admitir que la historia de la música electrónica tenga imágenes femeninas y trans en sus cimientos fundacionales, cuando la narrativa oficial y las epistemologías audiotécnicas están ...