Proof that Glenn was ahead of his time. He was fascinated by and mastered the recording technique of his time and was obviously taken with the potential of the electronic synthesizer.

Wendy is my absolute favorite synthesist composer. Her knowledge on the principles of synthesists is unparalleled. I have thoroughly worn out three LP'S of Switched on Bach alone trying to ascertain, just how she facilitated such tonal character in the tracks she arranged, one at a time. Thank you Wendy, for your incredible contribution to the synthesist world, and your musicianship ! Expanding Knowledge.

@arnaldotabosa1680

11 ай бұрын

Wendy was top !

wow glenn gould interviewing wendy carlos about the moog... that's like bach interviewing paganini about violins

The bit starting at 19:10 where Wendy Carlos is just geeking out over how she put together the Oboe sound in Air on a G String is just an absolute delight.

@jewishsing4524

3 жыл бұрын

thanx!!!

Glenn Gould's spontaneous conversation is better than my written, polished English.

@dgmono

3 жыл бұрын

He must have been reading that, don't you agree? I think his writing is too verbose and I find it hard to follow and understand...a shortcoming of genius, perhaps, and too bad he either never had anyone to explain this or that he simply didn't listen to criticisms of his writing

@drvonkrankmeister8094

3 жыл бұрын

@@dgmono Yes, Gould rejected any editing of his written work. After spending all his formative years gaining musical fluency, literary grace was, alas, elusive to Gould.

@pdstor

3 жыл бұрын

It sounds like one of James Joyce's streams of consciousness, transported over to the Carter era or whenever this was

Gould's introduction is luscious

@NoahSpurrier

10 ай бұрын

Right? Wicked wit.

Wendy Carlos merits a revival today..

Wendy is so wonderfully articulate

As Gould said, nothing surpasses contrapuntal clarity than on synthesizers. This is a peculiar aspect of Bach that his greatness will always fail to be captured.

@herbertwells8757

3 жыл бұрын

Hindemith disagreed. He points out that if what you call “contrapuntal clarity” were the paramount virtue you suggest then a string quartet rendition of a four-voice fugue from the Well-Tempered Clavier ought to be superior to a keyboard-instrument rendition. This happens not to be the case. The art of the fugue, so to speak, resides in the strenuous effort the keyboard-instrument player must exert to try make the strands distinct and, I myself would add, the difficulty the listener encounters in trying to hear them as distinct.

@bc4315

Жыл бұрын

@@herbertwells8757 They're both wrong. Contrapuntal clarity is created by distinct timbres, not monolothic timbres - better flute, oboe, cello and trumpet than a string quartet, or a piano, or a synthesizer using a single patch, to delineate counterpoint as to make it more clear. Similarity in timbre hides the contrapuntal lines amidst eachother, disparity in timbre makes the contrapuntal lines more audibly distinct, thereby making the counterpoint itself more clearly audible.

Fantastic Moog syntesizer , Switched on BACH by Wendy Carlos !😊

Thank you so much to share this precious document.

Thanks for posting, this is an excellent historical record! :-)

@brucecross1164

5 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed it, John.

Glenn refers to a three octave keyboard but he was in error. Wendy Carlos has a modular Moog and not just a Minimoog.

what a tremendous interview.... 2 legends!!

What a wonderful piece of history. And my favourite subject to boot. Thank you for posting.

The complete program is rather jumbled in the way that several people are interviewing and being interviewed. I guess it is Marcia Davenport that I find particularly annoying. She is stuck on how insulted she is by "technology " being used to present "art" (music), and displays her umbrage, in a very intellectual, academic, and distant way. She was incapable of just listening, and enjoying something new and different. I am so impressed with how direct, and clear and cogent, Wendy's comments are. I also like what G G had to say ,.. but he is at his most abstruse, and pedagogical, tutorial self. Another G G masters thesis! He had a very good grasp of what the possibilities of electronics could mean for a new kind of electronic music, and what tape editing could do to become a part of the performance.

Thanks for posting, Bruce

Good lord, does Gould take a breath? It's a solid stream of AIR for several minutes. Nice to hear, but I'd gather Gould was a hoot at parties.

@s.l5787

4 жыл бұрын

Considering he scripted a lot of interviews and did most conversations over the phone probably not

@charlotterose6724

4 жыл бұрын

Also, he never went to parties.

@herbertwells8757

3 жыл бұрын

Gould’s diction is particularly poor here. He is usually better at punctuating his phrases and modulating his pitch, that is, avoiding speaking in an undifferentiated monotone.

@mercoid

3 жыл бұрын

CBC probably told him he had an hour for his presentation. Doubtless he had a great deal more than that and was probably annoyed to have to pair it down.

Bruce Cross is a godsend....

You gotta see this with captions, it sounds like Glenn Gould was run through a MOOG synthesizer.

I'll need to come back a few times

This got me fired up to do some synthesizin'!

Excellent! Thank you.

Fantastic!

Gould's "scripts" are not scripts; they are just written prose he declaims in a near-monotone. The CBC never dared to edit or improve either the prose or his delivery of it. As such, his shows are really pretty bad - but he does have a lot to say. On the other hand, when speaking extemporaneously, he was brilliant and engaging even at his most perverse.

The material is not the easiest... The speaker at the end offering some thoughts seems to do a good job summarizing, and without changing the positive tone with the program ending with Carlos's Brandenburg. Haven't gotten through the whole thing yet though. He does make a point that this program is trying to use several points of view at once that in the past we were more used to seeing at odds with each other. And few of us are that well-versed in the amount of fields GG is tapping into, without having difficulty in at least one of them. (For instance, the sound engineering part was hard for me to get at first, when first trying to understand his material, or the music history in some of them, or the theory in Art of the Fugue) In this one, the philosophy/ theology side has always been hard for me to grasp. I might try to find the transcription to read along as they are speaking.

@patrickbodine6010

4 жыл бұрын

Might you be able to post a link, given you are able to find said transcript?

@brucecross1164

4 жыл бұрын

@@patrickbodine6010 look for youtube's 'open transcript' feature.

@YouzTube99

4 жыл бұрын

@@patrickbodine6010 Under the vid display, bottom right, click on the three horizontal ellipsis ( … ) that indicate 'more options' and you'll see 'Open transcript'.

grazie

Does anyone know what music is playing around 26:05 in the background? Is it one of her own compositions, and is it available anywhere?

@brucecross1164

6 ай бұрын

This is Switched-on-Bach, Brandenburg #3 second movement, where an improvisation is suggested by the two chords that Bach gives.

@milkenjoyer14

6 ай бұрын

@@brucecross1164 Oh wow, I wouldn't have recognized that in a million years, but I love it. Thank you!

I don't know if I should laugh, cry, or develop a serious headache from Gould's slightly pompous intellectual verbal spam. I guess laugh! :)

and he was right....by the way, we’re still a baby

Where is the original 90 minute version?

Glenn doesn’t understand that more is less regarding his scripted monologues and interviews. Saying he is verbose is the understatement of the century.

@dr.brianjudedelimaphd743

4 жыл бұрын

geometric art There is absolutely zero phrasing in his speech delivery-It has no dynamics or prosody and sounds like a computer

@CulturedThugPoster

4 жыл бұрын

he just isn't like the regular human, probably occupies the more functional part of the autistic spectrum (aspergers ?).

@drvonkrankmeister8094

3 жыл бұрын

He tries to get 30 hours of ideas into a one hour program.

@null3707

2 жыл бұрын

Gould’s speech delivery varies heavily from program to program

Not bad..... but didn't realize we would have to look at an inactive synth the whole way through 🙂 ........ cheers and thanks for video

@brucecross1164

4 жыл бұрын

My video - making abilities aren't up to much, but I like to think the audio makes up for it.

@baward

4 жыл бұрын

Bruce Cross Looks fine to me! NB that synth is actually a 1973-vintage Moog System 35 and Sequencer Complement. Her1968 Moog was more rudimentary. www.wendycarlos.com/photos/studio68.jpg

@brucecross1164

4 жыл бұрын

Very interesting photo. Thank you!

Is that Glenn Gould speaking or Rod Serling?

@alexwastakenwastaken

3 жыл бұрын

It's Agent Smith from the Matrix.

A cultist market set ?

What numb-nut decided to swamp the dialogue with synth tracks ? So annoying regarding the historical importance of the comments particularly of Carlos. But apart from that.... fascinating.

@andrewharing2637

3 жыл бұрын

I assume it was done specifically to prevent me from sampling some of the best bits, which was of course my intention.

BS !