....just poppin' in for a few moments after nearly a week's self imposed exile from the distractions of the internet......
[real life elderly parent stuff to take care of..]

Bach ???..


ok fair do's... so why not try to manoeuvre wobbly thread drift into 'thread relevance'...

Wendy / Walter Carlos - "Switched-On Bach"


it's almost getting on for 50 years now....

"A publicist for Colombia Masterworks said at the time, "Employing a repertoire of works by Bach for this unique recording, makes sense." "The composer sometimes wrote without specific instruments in mind, being more concerned with the actual musical lines." As a result, the Moog synthesizer may be considered a valid musical instrument. More accurately it might be said to carry the listener beyond the limits of conventional instruments toward a new universe of sounds. Summing the emergence of the Moog synthesizer, Benjamin Folkman (Carlos' associate and musicologist) stated in the liner notes for the album: "Like any musical instrument, it has extraordinary capabilities and maddening limitations. Playing it beautifully requires as much skill, practice, talent and taste as playing any instrument beautifully, plus the need of a composer's ear for new and different sounds." The rest as they say, is history!"