On the internet you can find quite some background info about this box, such as this interview by Carol Wright. But the full text of the booklet is not available as far as I know. Below the box-images I included the interview and some explanations by Wendy Carlos herself, both of which I found on Wendy Carlos website.
Electronic composer and technological pioneer Wendy Carlos is celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of her revolutionary Switched-On Bach (the best selling classical album of all time!) with the release of the Switched-On Boxed Set, a deluxe restoration of her four analog Bach albums: Switched-On Bach, The Well-Tempered Synthesizer, Switched-On Bach II, and Switched-On Brandenburgs.
Her website, www.wendycarlos.com is one of the most fascinating on the internet. A complete cyber tour of her album descriptions, technical notes, anecdotes (including remembrances of director Stanley Kubrick), eclipse photos, sketches, innovative globe projections, and kritter corner can take hours. So many interests. How does she do it all, and find brainspace for her legendary pun-a-thons?
NAV: Hearing Switched-On-Bach probably moved me as much as watching those very first television images of the moon landing. Hearing the didgeridoo for the first time also had a mindbending impact on me. Where are the new frontiers of sound?
To repair the all-too-audible pitch errors of our Orfeo minisuite took two days. None of the other repairs of pitch were nearly so cussed nor extensive, just a few notes here and there, and by but a few cents. I seem to be very sensitive to these pitch things, with my experiences with alternative tunings, so if none of this bothered you before, forget I even brought it up now!
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