Dear Visitor, welcome. This channel is dedicated to my creative side.
I approach each piece as if I had a hand in its composition and develop timbres based on its musical genre, etc. While I've posted my own orchestrations of piano music, most often I recreate Classical favourites in the "Switched-On," style of Wendy Carlos.
The music starts off as a MIDI, mostly from scanning sheet music through Neuratron's Photoscore to get notes off the page and into an electronic format for editing in Sibelius. The MIDI tracks are then input to Mixcraft for programming and then exported to Audition for editing and mix down. The processes take many hours but I enjoy the results and hope you do too.
Where possible, I've tried to make the videos as interesting to watch as they are to hear. "Like" if you wish and please leave a comment - feedback is most appreciated.
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PS: THE USE OF HEADPHONES WILL GREATLY ENHANCE THE LISTENING EXPERIENCE.
Hey my awesome anointed friend! I wish you would perform “The Barber of Seville” on the synthesizer! I’m sure you would make a double masterpiece out of it! God richly bless you my blessed friend!
As a young child growing up I used to listen to my dad's album by Walter Carlos, I memorized these magnificent tunes mastered on the Moog Synthesizer, I must have listened to these 1000s of times, and now that I'm an old phart with grand children, I can enjoy them once again, and use my oculus emoticonic responses to give them a 3rd dimension.
Thank you so much for making and sharing this!!! With your version, we can enjoy and fully appreciate the whole beautiful polifony of this incredible music. ¡All the best to you, thank you so much!
What a wonderful way to spread the Gospel, indeed, Jesu Juva! With gigabytes of Bach on mostly Moog synthesizer even the dogs in my neighborhood seem to acquire an inkling of culture 😘
This arrangement has great potential, but too much of the supporting voices are lost in the drop in dynamic contrast between the lead voices and the synthesizer's version of the keyboard part plus the equal drop in dynamic contrast between the lead voices and the ensemble, reducing the overall impression to a bare bones outline of the beauty of the whole. Also, the treatment of the closing keyboard cadenza varies from the exaggerated (in the name of the baroque principle of "notes inegales") to the mechanically careless (for most of the cadenza). The performer falls into the common trap of seeming more concerned with effects than with ideational substance.
Wow - I missed seeing this one Carey - again a stupendous performance ! Alive, exciting, and brilliant sounds and vocodering (?) A total joy to listen too
Thank you so much Simon. It’s possibly the most complex project I’ve undertaken and sequenced it years ago. I was really pleased how quickly it seemed to all come together when I decided to take it on again. I’m very proud of this work.
A little correction on brightness, contrast and color saturation and MAM jumps straight out of the screen. Beautiful video to accompany an excellent rendition!
I first heard Wendy / Walter Carlos in about the same time - 1971/72 and it started a life long love of Bach, classical music, synthesisers and electronic music. I got my MiniMoog Voyager about 7 years ago, one of the last 500 Electric Blue models made and the last synth designed by Bob Moog - (couldn’t afford a Modular 55!) Thanks for posting, I have all of Wendy’s CDs but haven’t listened to them for a little while, and it was nice to do a search and find your channel.
@@CareyRMeltz Thank you Carey for your reply. I particularly enjoyed your Handel’s "Hallelujah Chorus” and I have subscribed to your channel for about a year now. I should also have mentioned in my first post, that I was so impressed with your reimagining of the Allegro from the Third Brandenburg. It was brilliant, both visually and aurally. So what VST’s did you use? The Arturia Moog Modular comes to mind! And what were the tunings you used? Wendy was very clever on that. I wish I had that skill !
@stephenbarrette610 I actually used the free plugins and included instrument sets that came with Mixcraft. I like Arturia’s Moog Modular but it’s pricey. My version is standard tuning (which wouldn’t affect digital instruments but I know Carlos had a difficult time with her tunings on analogue equipment) sort of an averaging out her sounds (instead of changing up instrument timbres throughput) though it still seems to be reminiscent to people’s recollection of the work. Thanks so much for your interest and for subscribing. 🙂
I heard the Wendy Carlos Switched on Brandenburgs first in my teens in the 1980's. just as I was also discovering early Genesis, Kansas, Jethro Tull and Yes. This music has always been the logical consequence of my prog favorites.
Iba a decir que esta música me transporta a ... Pero creo que no es la palabra que describe lo que siento. Esta musica me hace estar aquí, sentir la mas minima parte de mi ser, estando tan profundamente interiorizado en mi, me doy cuenta que soy parte de este maravilloso y comolejo universo, que los límites de mi cuerpo los he... delimitado mi pobre razocinio humano, pero que en realidad, mi escencia es que estoy constituido de la misma consistecia de el cosmos. No puedo imaginar que es lo que inspiraba a J S Bach para componer. Esto es una puerta a los conocimientos que están y ofrece el universo.
