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Switched on Pop

Switched-On Wendy Carlos

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The synthesizer was invented in the 1890s. But for people to really start using it, it took half a century, a musician named Wendy Carlos, and an album called Switched-On Bach. Charlie Harding and Nate Sloan of Switched On Pop tell Phoebe why Wendy Carlos is “the most significant figure in 20th century music that the least people know about.” Subscribe to This Is Love Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's been a great summer for sports and we're only just getting started.

0:03.2

With the Paris and Olympus kicking off, 0.4 is bringing you a couple of special

0:06.8

episodes that will help you connect more deeply with the athletes, teams, and

0:10.5

underdogs you'll be cheering for over the next few weeks.

0:14.0

We have Carmelotatum, Andrei Gidala discussing some of the top past USA Olympic moments.

0:19.0

I think the energy around Olympus is going to be fun.

0:22.0

You know, you have a great city like Paris,

0:24.0

and you have some of the best athletes of our generation

0:26.3

competing.

0:27.1

This is, you know, the closing a chapter

0:29.0

for some of the best players ever compete.

0:31.0

So make sure you tune in, it'll be a fun conversation.

0:33.4

Tune into this Point Four special series presented by Verizon business, starting on July

0:38.9

31st, you can find it on a Point forward feed wherever you get your podcast. Switch on pop.

0:59.0

Welcome to Switched on pop. I'm songwriter Charlie Harding.

1:01.6

I love synthesizers. They are way more than just the primary instrument in pop music.

1:07.1

These machines give musicians an endless set of musical paints to create new Sonic colors. I will literally spend hours

1:14.8

building patches of unusual bleeps and bloop searching for tambrel gold on my

1:19.1

instruments. My love of the synthesizer though owes everything to Wendy Carlos.

1:25.6

She was an early adopter and the creator of the best-selling classical album Switched

1:29.3

on Bach.

1:30.3

Recently, Nate and I were on the wonderful podcast This is Love hosted by Phoebe Judge

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