Young People's Concert: "Bach Transmogrified" / Bernstein · New York Philharmonic

  Рет қаралды 595,430

Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein

Күн бұрын

Пікірлер: 1 400
@yoless42
@yoless42 3 жыл бұрын
What many of the so-called "purists" like to forget is that Bach himself was very interested in making instruments. He was known not only for his organ playing, but also for his expertise in organ building. He helped Gottfried Silbermann with the development of the PianoForte and gave a lot of impetus for the further development of many instruments of his time. I think it's safe to say that Bach would have loved to own a synthesizer.
@pancudowny
@pancudowny 3 жыл бұрын
Irony: It's Walter (Pre-Wendy) Carlos' impression that if the great composers of the "classical" period were alive in the age of the synthesizer, their works would be very-much like what he--and those whom assisted him--had transposed with the Moog onto several albums, including "Walter Carlos & The Well-Tempered Synthesizer".
@JoshuaWillis89
@JoshuaWillis89 3 жыл бұрын
Pipe organs were literally the first synthesizers.
@paulfoss5385
@paulfoss5385 3 жыл бұрын
@@pancudowny Try that again without the dead naming.
@artfrieso8851
@artfrieso8851 3 жыл бұрын
@@paulfoss5385 How dare he acknowledge that Wendy Carlos was once Walter Carlos! /s
@paulfoss5385
@paulfoss5385 3 жыл бұрын
@@artfrieso8851 I might agree with you, if we lived in a perfect world where transphobia never existed and dead names were just old names, never weaponized to dismiss people's identities, then it could be a harmless bit of trivia, but we don't live in that world. If you're using dead names, you don't get to hide behind the banner of just stating facts, it is generally understood that its rude to share certain pieces of personal information about people. Out of all the thousands of facts about Wendy, he zeroed in on one that causes trans people distress, and then repeatedly misgendered her, going out of his way to fit in more than one version of male pronouns. So yeah, let's focus on facts, like the fact he was trying to be cute about being deliberately transphobic.
@joelsmith3473
@joelsmith3473 3 жыл бұрын
"Guess you guys aren't ready for that yet... but your kids are gonna love it."
@daviddemar8749
@daviddemar8749 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the back to the future reference and very analogous
@henriturgutyan9244
@henriturgutyan9244 3 жыл бұрын
Literally
@pumukliboti
@pumukliboti 3 жыл бұрын
Favourite comment.
@Enigmatism415
@Enigmatism415 3 жыл бұрын
nice
@daviddemar8749
@daviddemar8749 3 жыл бұрын
@@Enigmatism415 Fyi wo uesi hanyu by myself Wo kanjian he zhidao Liang ge hanzi Ying ? he gui? What is the meaning of this phrase? Ching gassuo wo pinyin, ma?
@wakeforldmusic
@wakeforldmusic 3 жыл бұрын
the first bass drop was pure fire
@checkoutmyyoutubepage
@checkoutmyyoutubepage 3 жыл бұрын
The kids knew. Noticed their faces when the bass hit? Also they were so unaware how this style of music would be in so many video games.
@Quasarii
@Quasarii 2 жыл бұрын
in final fantasy 6 there's this music called "Dancing mad" played for the last boss. and i'm pretty sure it has the same motif or the FF6 composer has been inspired to this bach peice
@cahill48
@cahill48 11 ай бұрын
Moog Bach Suites and Heartbreak
@mrfister1899
@mrfister1899 11 ай бұрын
Read this comment just as the bass dropped 😮
@weave_of_k
@weave_of_k 11 ай бұрын
The double bassist would beg to differ.
@danabarnes4751
@danabarnes4751 3 жыл бұрын
The combined look of fascination and hatred from the orchestra is precious.
@RickPotvin54
@RickPotvin54 3 жыл бұрын
Right, I noticed that too but as well-- the entire show was sidelined by the reel to reel tape player... where they SHOULD have had a real person at the keyboard playing it in realtime. I don't get why they played a recording when they could have playing the machine.
@Laurabeck329
@Laurabeck329 3 жыл бұрын
@@RickPotvin54 This was a multi track recording and the synth that it was recorded from was a monophonic instrument so you would either need like 8 of them all set to different sounds or just use a tape recorder.
@Laurabeck329
@Laurabeck329 3 жыл бұрын
@@samuelfellows6923 yea, but that technology was creatred like 20 years after this was filmed
@willjones7132
@willjones7132 2 жыл бұрын
3:24 Is quite a shot.
@amonster8mymother
@amonster8mymother Жыл бұрын
The horror the horror.
@HenryLondon
@HenryLondon 6 жыл бұрын
I was there when this was done live! What great memories for me.
@johannsebastianbach3411
@johannsebastianbach3411 6 жыл бұрын
Ah, I wish I was there too, but I was dead for centuries, sadly.
@michaeldagod
@michaeldagod 5 жыл бұрын
Did you feel robbed when you found out you would only be listening to the tape recorded version? Was the Moog not working properly that day? What happened?
@leocomerford
@leocomerford 5 жыл бұрын
@@michaeldagod Are we sure that the Moog wasn't working? Apparently it was only a monophonic synth, so to record "Switched-On Bach" Carlos had to overdub every voice of the polyphony separately to tape en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switched-On_Bach#Recording . So the most you could do live (without wheeling out two or more Moogs, which would have been a serious feat) would be to have the Moog play one voice "live" from a sequencer (the thing on the top left?) while the other voices were replayed from tape. (Or instead of using a sequencer I presume you could record the output of the keyboard to one of the stereo tracks of the tape, and run that track live through the rest of the Moog.) OTOH the Moog apparently had terrible tuning problems-it was hard enough to work with in the studio, never mind live, though of course some did play it live. So it wouldn't be too surprising if someone tried to avoid playing it live at all (though I assume that a short performance like the excerpt in the video wouldn't be too risky).
@attiliobastosguarnieri5416
@attiliobastosguarnieri5416 4 жыл бұрын
@@leocomerford perfect ! Exato.
@michatroschka
@michatroschka 4 жыл бұрын
wot? thats so great!
@philiproragen431
@philiproragen431 3 жыл бұрын
His space machine puns absolutely bombing somehow makes this video even better
@vigilancebrandon
@vigilancebrandon 3 жыл бұрын
Lol
@GUILLOTINE_GANG
@GUILLOTINE_GANG 3 жыл бұрын
"Sounds never heard before, on this planet at least." *crickets*
@DrDeuteron
@DrDeuteron 3 жыл бұрын
The audience is dead, Jim.
@BLAHBLAH-ib3mo
@BLAHBLAH-ib3mo 3 жыл бұрын
he wasnt bombing
@Rosskles
@Rosskles 11 ай бұрын
The HAL joke brought the house down 😂
@odealianaffairs9001
@odealianaffairs9001 3 жыл бұрын
That kid who shook when he heard the bass went on to become skrillex.
@chaddraizin6616
@chaddraizin6616 3 жыл бұрын
I can see that kid with a scotch in his hand elbow on the bar complaining to the other fellas from work about his mother in law.
@dreamfh69
@dreamfh69 3 жыл бұрын
Is it the beast from the chase
@TheLightningStalker
@TheLightningStalker 3 жыл бұрын
Which one became Hatsune Miku?
@hanyanglee9018
@hanyanglee9018 3 жыл бұрын
You seriously?
@DarkMetaOFFICIAL
@DarkMetaOFFICIAL 3 жыл бұрын
bro that's Bill Gates
@vanodyssey1659
@vanodyssey1659 4 жыл бұрын
The sounds we take for granted in 2020.
@Esrom_music
@Esrom_music 3 жыл бұрын
Meh... Half of us still use moogs in the studio
@MuzixMaker
@MuzixMaker 3 жыл бұрын
It's funny that those "never heard before" sounds are now considered "dated."
@vaiman7777
@vaiman7777 3 жыл бұрын
@@Esrom_music That was his point! :|
@sandstorm_by_darude
@sandstorm_by_darude 3 жыл бұрын
@@Esrom_music yep and u take them for granted
@snarkylive
@snarkylive 3 жыл бұрын
@@MuzixMaker They only sound dated because now computers replicate sequenced music more perfectly than artist's instruments. Real live performances now sound subpar to musicians that have their live performance computer augmented.
@gengraded
@gengraded 3 жыл бұрын
The range of emotion on peoples faces are fascinating. Boredom, Confused, Inspired, Awestruck.
@DoctorNemmo
@DoctorNemmo 3 жыл бұрын
I missed a kid watching like Shinji's father
@Enigmatism415
@Enigmatism415 3 жыл бұрын
Hilarity
@danielomni9084
@danielomni9084 3 жыл бұрын
And all edited by the film editor.
@WinkLinkletter
@WinkLinkletter 3 жыл бұрын
Could be mistaken, but I think that there was a monitor and some of the kids were seeing themselves in it, as well.
@michael4576
@michael4576 3 жыл бұрын
@@danielomni9084 what are you talking about? Why would you say something like that?
@GenesisProgressive72
@GenesisProgressive72 4 жыл бұрын
"Hello, HAL" Sadly funny how new that joke must have sounded back then.
@graytonw5238
@graytonw5238 3 жыл бұрын
I remember hearing him say that when I watched a broadcast of this episode, but I could have sworn he also said something about the Beatles making use of it in their White Album. I might have it mixed up with some other show.
@corezone4250
@corezone4250 3 жыл бұрын
Still funny to me.
@pencrows
@pencrows 3 жыл бұрын
yeah it came out a year before this recording aired on cbs
@chickenflavor9880
@chickenflavor9880 3 жыл бұрын
@@rareform6747 based
@camaradaforte2531
@camaradaforte2531 3 жыл бұрын
Why sad?
@KRAFTWERK2K6
@KRAFTWERK2K6 3 жыл бұрын
I love the fact that Bernstein broke a lance for the Synthesizer & emancipated it as a real instrument (as it rightfully deserves), back when people still laughed it off as some fancy new thing. Just a few years (maybe 5 or 6) Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze filled concert halls with a big moog like this one here & showed what it was capable of. Earth-shattering fat sounds, hypnotic sequencerlines, poly-rythmic patterns & unearthly pads.
@snarkylive
@snarkylive 3 жыл бұрын
Normal people back then didn't understand it, they thought it was like a music box. Instead it is an expression of fields and waves transforming math and electricity to vibrations of sound. Now your smart phone can make more perfect musical sounds than anyone's normal musical instrument, all the soul of instruments is in noise and imperfection, that is also now replicated perfectly.
@monad_tcp
@monad_tcp 3 жыл бұрын
@@snarkylive there's still something with infinite harmonics and sound bouncing in real walls that's very hard to model with modern computers. that's why re-amping exists, and sampling. perhaps the problem is that computers are too perfect.
@Ader1
@Ader1 3 жыл бұрын
@@monad_tcp Well, not really as much as you think...
@monad_tcp
@monad_tcp 3 жыл бұрын
@@Ader1 Yeah, I know, frequency modulation can be simulated by software nowadays. Its just that most of the models used are crappy. The good plugins usually have bank samples, but in theory it could be perfectly simulated. I was playing with this, I only used 2 harmonics, it was funny the amount of pink-noise/white-noise I was getting because of it, because I was dropping all the other harmonics. The moog was monophonic and used AM modulation, it was a different kind of beast. With analogs, each harmonics would require a complete duplication of every amp stage, it would be a wall of boards.
@Ader1
@Ader1 3 жыл бұрын
@@monad_tcp Ok but, what is harmonics according to you?
@qwasd0r
@qwasd0r 3 жыл бұрын
It's the musical equivalent of the steam train racing towards the movie theater screen
@gordonfry2644
@gordonfry2644 3 жыл бұрын
This is an under-rated comment lol
@sidneybarrett8941
@sidneybarrett8941 2 жыл бұрын
Well said!
@dandyandy2046
@dandyandy2046 3 жыл бұрын
2:33 I love it when the robot on the left peaks its head out to hear that groovy sound.
@greggweber9967
@greggweber9967 10 ай бұрын
Looks like a studio TV camera.
@ntaylor253
@ntaylor253 10 ай бұрын
@@greggweber9967nice observation
@adam872
@adam872 2 жыл бұрын
I was pleasantly surprised by Bernstein's view on the synthesizer. He seemed to dig it. I certainly did and I'm watching it 53 years later. I'm also quite certain I would have loved it at the age these kids were too.
@jirihorecky9644
@jirihorecky9644 3 жыл бұрын
“This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultraviolence”
@asklfhjaw8o48934
@asklfhjaw8o48934 3 жыл бұрын
The old "in-out, in-out."
@d33j4ybf
@d33j4ybf 11 ай бұрын
"The Korova Milk Bar sold milk-plus: milk plus velocet, or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking..."
@chrisbystrak7967
@chrisbystrak7967 10 ай бұрын
righty right brotha.
@hemiolaguy
@hemiolaguy 7 ай бұрын
@@chrisbystrak7967 I think you meant "droog."
@adamiotime
@adamiotime 3 жыл бұрын
Man, I can't get over how charismatic Bernstein was.
@ProSimex84
@ProSimex84 3 жыл бұрын
This sorta thing along with a glass of moloko plus would sharpen you up for a night of the old untraviolence.
@dan42129
@dan42129 3 жыл бұрын
Hahahaha
@turnerthemanc
@turnerthemanc 3 жыл бұрын
how the krovvy would flow
@patcowley6378
@patcowley6378 3 жыл бұрын
makes me want to tolchock someone in the litso....
@marcanglin7127
@marcanglin7127 3 жыл бұрын
Might want to have a bit of the ol' "in-out; in-out", as well.
@MarcoBoneMan
@MarcoBoneMan 3 жыл бұрын
yes
@joxer96
@joxer96 3 жыл бұрын
I love how he started the sequencer which did absolutely nothing besides display some pretty flashing lights. Had to have something other than two reels spinning, lol. Great video though, I'm a huge fan of electronic Baroque.
@KC9UDX
@KC9UDX 3 жыл бұрын
At that time, two or more spinning reels and some flashing lights were what people expected to see from the highest technology.
@joxer96
@joxer96 3 жыл бұрын
@@KC9UDX Very true, same for computers, that’s why you’d always see reels of tape spinning at full speed on TV or movies. 👍🏼
@KC9UDX
@KC9UDX 3 жыл бұрын
@@joxer96 what most people couldn't wrap their minds around at that time (understandably) is that computers do transcendental things. Everything prior did things physically. Without something physical happening, there was no way to understand that a computer was doing anything at all, let alone something technologically amazing.
@InflatablePlane
@InflatablePlane 3 жыл бұрын
Okay. I wasn’t sure if it was actually playing based off tones generated from the tape deck as some sort of electronic triggers.
@joxer96
@joxer96 3 жыл бұрын
​@@InflatablePlane The thought crossed my mind as well, but it wouldn't have been possible since the modular is monophonic.
@sergeboisse
@sergeboisse 3 жыл бұрын
"Switched on Bach", by Wendy Carlos, was a revelation to me, back in 1968. She was one of the greatest musician of her time. And the first classical electronic musician of all times.
@wardka
@wardka 3 жыл бұрын
I dare say she did a more tasteful job than the rendition here, which wasn't bad but a little over the top in choosing weird vibrato timbres.
@movierun
@movierun 3 жыл бұрын
@@wardka Yes. Wendy (Walter back then) understood the potentials of the Moog synthesizer as a real instrument. Her interpretations were always fresh, original and dynamic. This fugue sounds like a goofy, cartoonish cliche of electronic music.
@coleorum
@coleorum 3 жыл бұрын
Switched on Bach was the first thing I heard on a decent stereo system. I think the Carlos work still sounds fantastic to-day because it was far from gimmicky and used sounds that enhanced Bach's music and showed off the real potential of the Moog. The example here is very poor in comparison.
@movierun
@movierun 3 жыл бұрын
As a teenager back in the 70s, I would play the album "Switched-On Bach" (and the sequels "The Well-Tempered Synthesizer" and "Switched-on Bach II") over and over in my upstairs bedroom (sometimes with my big, goofy "David Clark" headphones, but more often through my special "natural sound" hi-fi speakers). My dad had suffered an emotional breakdown around this time and was diagnosed as having "atypical schizophrenia". He was given medication which calmed his nerves but usually left him very low and depressed. One day my dad was resting on the living room couch as I was cranking up the Switched-on Bach in my bedroom. Later in the day he approached me and asked me what that music was. He said he had been very depressed that day, and that the music had lifted him up enormously. THAT is the power of Bach (and Carlos).
@SorchaSublime
@SorchaSublime 3 жыл бұрын
@@movierun was mentioning her deadname really necessary? i doubt anyone who knows of her knows of her by that name.
@joermnyc
@joermnyc 3 жыл бұрын
He failed to mention this kind of synthesizer only plays 1 note at a time. Hence why they had to play it on tape.
@davidreece6193
@davidreece6193 3 жыл бұрын
Yeap. They used to tape a load of b flats differing lengths and other notes differing lengths and taped them together. The original tracks where done at half speed. In the mix they were played back at normal speed. The BBC Radiophonic workshop did exactly the same. Polyphonic keyboards weren’t on the horizon at the time.
@JrChery
@JrChery 3 жыл бұрын
Holy Shit, mind blown
@ceephaxx
@ceephaxx 3 жыл бұрын
@@davidreece6193 They multitracked different monophonic lines for a polyphonic result, yes, but by 1969 they didn't have to record individually pitched notes and splice every single one together. This system features a sequencer which Bernstein switches on just before the tape machine (albeit for visual demonstration effect only).
@steve1978ger
@steve1978ger 3 жыл бұрын
I was wondering how they would get the whole fugue into that little sequencer
@Highlander1432
@Highlander1432 3 жыл бұрын
Very primitive indeed The creation of the actual sound is where the sweet science lies How we as human beings respond to and create these sounds is fascinating
@canon5204
@canon5204 3 жыл бұрын
I was looking for cheap records at a thrift store and saw “Switched On Bach” for like $15 and took it home without thinking anything of it. It feels special knowing now what a historical milestone it is.
@popcycles
@popcycles Жыл бұрын
$15!! I bought it for a dollar 😂 But that was in 1992.
@rjwh67220
@rjwh67220 11 ай бұрын
I bought Switched On Bach when it was new for only $2.99.
@thegodistestingme
@thegodistestingme 10 ай бұрын
54 years later and now we have Keygen Church. I love to find pieces of history of electronic music like this video here.
@nickgluciano
@nickgluciano 3 жыл бұрын
The shot 5:20 with the Moog in the foreground and Bernstein looking on is one of my all-time favorites of him.
@millersimon6655
@millersimon6655 2 ай бұрын
the beginning of a new era literally
@fepatton
@fepatton 3 жыл бұрын
My Dad, who was always listening to classical music, brought home Switched On Bach when it was relatively new and I was young. It’s one of my favorite albums to this day. He felt that Bach would have appreciated it.
@KRAFTWERK2K6
@KRAFTWERK2K6 3 жыл бұрын
The Applause for the Big Moog was really a sweet touch and well deserved.
@harukatakahashi8822
@harukatakahashi8822 10 ай бұрын
Big Moog?
@qwertstrewq
@qwertstrewq 10 ай бұрын
I can see in a way of how these Moog synths became the inspiration of using them for two Kubrick movies such as A Clockwork Orange and The Shining. I’m even more fascinated to know that Leonard Bernstein had gotten touch with modular synths. And this was in the 60s!
@karlsangree
@karlsangree 3 жыл бұрын
I can still vividly remember my father taking me to a Moog concert at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. I was in my early teens at the time so this would have been the late 60s. The concert was performed live on five Moog synths. It was incredible. I owned (and still have a vinyl copy of) 'Switched On Bach' by Wendy Carlos, and 'Moog, the Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman'. That concert began a long running love of electronic music.
@pancudowny
@pancudowny 3 жыл бұрын
3:11 - The way that boy reacted to the sudden, strong bass line... if only he knew what popular music was to become in 2021! ;)
@christopherfreud5894
@christopherfreud5894 3 жыл бұрын
It’s a playbach tape recording
@politesociety
@politesociety 3 жыл бұрын
He does mention that at the start.
@MacXpert74
@MacXpert74 3 жыл бұрын
'playbach' I like it! 😅
@CraigMansfield
@CraigMansfield 3 жыл бұрын
Ow 😂
@JohnChernoff
@JohnChernoff 7 ай бұрын
Get out! :)
@elijahvincent985
@elijahvincent985 3 жыл бұрын
It's crazy to think that retro 8- bit music was assumed to come from video games by many... This is where it's from. Square, Sawtooth, Sine and Triangle waves.
@monad_tcp
@monad_tcp 3 жыл бұрын
yeah, its the opposite, videogames took it because of the miniaturization of things like the moog. they literally have one of those like a chip inside.
@dabidhanky
@dabidhanky 3 жыл бұрын
This is an analogue synth. No bits at all.
@TrueFilter
@TrueFilter 3 жыл бұрын
What the fuck are you talking about? This is an analogue synth.
@thecynth3820
@thecynth3820 3 жыл бұрын
It is analogue, but it sounds 8-bit due to the largelt unfiltered sounds on a lot of this song (especially the square-wave with stepped PWM). That's what they're referring to, just the sound of this particular piece.
@jumpingman8160
@jumpingman8160 3 жыл бұрын
@@dabidhanky has chips
@lucascienza
@lucascienza 3 жыл бұрын
seeing so many kids at a concert is joy
@random-protogen
@random-protogen 3 жыл бұрын
3:10 imagine if it was your first time hearing that deep rich synth bass, that nowdays... we take for granted I for one love the rih yet dirty sound of it, its just a genuinely cool sound, it sounds big and scary, and i can imagine to the kids of 1969 it would be just that
@1SevenCirclesDesign
@1SevenCirclesDesign 3 жыл бұрын
"Wow the technology back then was so bulky and cumbersome!" 2:32 and then the camera is rolled in
@harleygould7255
@harleygould7255 3 жыл бұрын
That was an actual TUBE camera....no chips, you had 3 vidicon tubes, like amplifier tubes, that were light sensitive, one for Red, one for Green, one for Blue, to make color TV.....And yes, they weighed a ton....
@1SevenCirclesDesign
@1SevenCirclesDesign 3 жыл бұрын
@@harleygould7255 Damn... its pretty amazing how far we have gone in a few decades, those two by themselves where marvels of their own time
@idiotidiot5821
@idiotidiot5821 3 жыл бұрын
It rolled in with comedic/villainous timing too lol
@isaidstream4547
@isaidstream4547 3 жыл бұрын
This reminds me to, Evil Gameboy - Virtual Riot
@profd65
@profd65 3 жыл бұрын
This is a new realization for you? That certain devices used to be bigger? Is this your first day on Earth, or are you just a Zoomer?
@dbyers3897
@dbyers3897 2 ай бұрын
I discovered Switched On Bach in 1971 in the library at our middle school in our little farm community. It completely changed my mind about music in that I began to notice it and in detail. At church, at school, on the radio, on TV. Thank you, Wendy Carlos, for opening my ears, and brain.
@HexLabz
@HexLabz 3 жыл бұрын
The polarized reception of it, as apparent on all of their faces, makes me smile. Some liked it, some hated it, and one guy in the band looks like he was just fired.
@untro7287
@untro7287 3 жыл бұрын
Really was crazy how huge switched on bach was. Even my parents and grandparents remember when it came out, i guess it was a kind of moon landing album
@MrGone-bw6bk
@MrGone-bw6bk 3 жыл бұрын
I don’t know how many copies of Switched-On Bach were sold initially but there seems to be an abundance of them circulating the used market. I have 2 or 3 for sale now plus the second volume released.
@nsbd90now
@nsbd90now 3 жыл бұрын
That, and then Tomita did similar things. I had all those records. Strange how digital they sound, rather than analog.
@urphakeandgey6308
@urphakeandgey6308 3 жыл бұрын
It kind of marked (electronic) machines finally being able to indisputably perform music. There were mechanical machines before like music boxes and self-playing pianos.
@joeltunnah
@joeltunnah 3 жыл бұрын
It was such a success because of Walter Carlos’ musicianship and orchestrations. The fact that the two albums are still enjoyable today has nothing to do with the machinery used.
@blemke6343
@blemke6343 3 жыл бұрын
@@joeltunnah Her name was Wendy Carlos
@Laurabeck329
@Laurabeck329 3 жыл бұрын
Wendy Carlos was so ahead of her time it's kind of unbelievable. An absolute genius
@Vukuzenzele
@Vukuzenzele 2 жыл бұрын
*his
@eliastinitus5045
@eliastinitus5045 2 жыл бұрын
@@Vukuzenzele No her, she was a transgender
@Vukuzenzele
@Vukuzenzele 2 жыл бұрын
@@eliastinitus5045 Doesn't change the fact that Wendy is a man.
@rubikmonat6589
@rubikmonat6589 2 жыл бұрын
@@Vukuzenzele Was, no need to be rude. It doesn't hurt you to be polite.
@Vukuzenzele
@Vukuzenzele 2 жыл бұрын
@@rubikmonat6589 Acknowledging reality is not impolite.
@tilliinfinity
@tilliinfinity 3 жыл бұрын
The orchestra looks like "oh shit this thing is gonna replace us! we should kill it now"
@samuelfellows6923
@samuelfellows6923 3 жыл бұрын
Well before that, they had to contend with the pipe organ and the Wurlitzer organ, both could replicate a human/musician based orchestra with 1 organist and his music book.
@lumix1640
@lumix1640 3 жыл бұрын
And now almost every composer use synth, the orchestra should have kill it
@agnidas5816
@agnidas5816 3 жыл бұрын
Orchestras should have died with the advent of the dynamic speaker. The whole purpose of an orchestra is to fill a large hall with sound. The larger the hall the more members you need in order to fill it with sound. With dynamic speakers now you only need one person per section. The music scene has not caught onto this. It has been quiet a long time since the advent happened : P We should go back to chamber orchestras only. No more huge ensembles : )
@tilliinfinity
@tilliinfinity 3 жыл бұрын
@@agnidas5816 booooring
@lumix1640
@lumix1640 3 жыл бұрын
@@agnidas5816 Nah Orchestra give something nothing else can
@danniem
@danniem 10 ай бұрын
Yes, it's true. I was alive then. People were truly amazed and in awe of machines that made music that sounds, now, like it's from a 1980s gaming console.
@Transit_Biker
@Transit_Biker 10 ай бұрын
It’s funny you say that, because the consoles that you talk about actually can hold very limited sounds while this instrument can make nearly infinite sounds.
@danniem
@danniem 10 ай бұрын
@@Transit_Biker That's right, and the machine was truly deserving of the amazement and awe we had for it then. And I'm not saying that, among the machine's spectrum of sounds, the ones chosen for musical productions like this example are to be ridiculed. Quite the contrary, these were sounds that were not heard much before and therefore "groundbreaking" at the time. It's just humorous to go back in time with videos like this and reflect on the things we saw and heard and how we felt about them at the time and how they look and sound to us now. Cheers! :D
@SamsTheBams
@SamsTheBams 3 жыл бұрын
Huge intimidating synthesizer: BleepBlipBlipBloopBluu
@richpeltier9519
@richpeltier9519 11 ай бұрын
The look on the first chair violin at the end is hilarious. It's amazing to see the reactions of the people to the brand new sounds, that nowadays seems common place and even old and out of date. We live in an age of wonder.
@dvamateur
@dvamateur 4 жыл бұрын
Moog 55 has been reissued at $35,000 apiece, and it was immediately sold out.
@TheLarryBrown
@TheLarryBrown 4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, all six of them.
@jlee29170
@jlee29170 4 жыл бұрын
Virtual version 'Modular V' from Arturia is half-price this week. It's amazing.
@seanspartan2023
@seanspartan2023 3 жыл бұрын
Behringer System 55 is available at $99 a module...
@matsh51
@matsh51 3 жыл бұрын
Bought the iPad app instead...
@agnidas5816
@agnidas5816 3 жыл бұрын
Grand pianos easily go twice that much on a run of hundreds.
@vinnieladders3470
@vinnieladders3470 3 жыл бұрын
“Oh it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh. The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk round my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver. I was in such bliss, my brothers.”
@paulklee5790
@paulklee5790 3 жыл бұрын
Double plus good....
@KRAFTWERK2K6
@KRAFTWERK2K6 3 жыл бұрын
Viddy well, Droogie. Real horrorshow! *sips his moloko plus*
@michaelroberts1120
@michaelroberts1120 3 жыл бұрын
And to think, less than 15 years later people could do this on a commodore 64, which was a fraction of the size and probably one hundreth the cost of the moog contraption
@parasiteunit
@parasiteunit 3 жыл бұрын
Funnily enough - when I looked at the timeline for it and considered the refences... That though occurred to me. On the same note, when I began making music - I had a DX100 and a tape machine (reel to reel). That was my studio. How things have moved
@bluegrasssasquatch4930
@bluegrasssasquatch4930 3 жыл бұрын
Still, there's nothing quite like creating music from a modular system like Moog.
@AfonsodelCB
@AfonsodelCB 3 жыл бұрын
I don't think the commodore could hit this kind of fidelity
@hadror13
@hadror13 3 жыл бұрын
The commodore offered 8 bit digital synthesis which is sonically different, but was mainly used for sequencing analog synths such as the Moog ones
@SpencerLemay
@SpencerLemay 3 жыл бұрын
the commodore's sound capabilities were immensely inferior to this.
@giuseppelogiurato5718
@giuseppelogiurato5718 3 жыл бұрын
I love seeing the faces of the kids; I first heard MOOG/"Switched-on Bach" at a similar age, although much later than this film was taken (Me and sister weren't doing insane little-kid dances to this stuff until the early 1980's)... Our reaction was the same: surprise, laughter, smiling, delight, the urge to create some sort of "mad ballet", and just a little bit of fright to make it alright... We, as children, always perceived a sort of "abstract spookiness" in the music of JS Bach, no matter what instrument on which it was rendered, as if it were the music from the mind of a spider, spinning his web and doing his intricate little spider things... does that make sense?
@mwj5368
@mwj5368 11 ай бұрын
You're a good writer! I like how you use the spider as a metaphor too, a very poignant analogy!
@michaelborkowski7418
@michaelborkowski7418 21 күн бұрын
I love the Moog. Truly an engineering marvel. The low-fi, primitive synthesizer is spooky and futuristic even though it is a relic of the past.
@MuzixMaker
@MuzixMaker 3 жыл бұрын
That’s Walter Sear off to the left at 2:16 . I still have two LPs of his from that era.
@FabienDousteyssier
@FabienDousteyssier 10 ай бұрын
Waouh, such a 'document' i discover here ! Of course, we can't help thinking of Wendy Carlos... But I am certain that J.S. BACH himself, from 'where he was/is, pushes and contributes to the development of the modern synthesizer...because he was interested and involved himself in instruments evolution ! The man was an absolute genius, the man who reinvented music, because also we must realise that all 'future' music is already 'contained' in his compositions and work... he showed the way to all of us !? Obviously, he would have loved to invent and develop the synthesizer, organs, music software,...but others like L.S. Thermen, M. Martenot, Bob, Tom, Dave,...followed his path, and we can all thank him for this legacy !
@R1GAMBLER
@R1GAMBLER 3 жыл бұрын
children's expressions are priceless, I hope they are all still alive enjoying music 🎶
@kevinnolan3592
@kevinnolan3592 3 жыл бұрын
Bernstein's introduction is without prejudice, neither complementary not mocking, yet captures _what_ about synthesizers set them apart from other kinds of instruments. Raw, unadulterated musical insight and instinct. I'd wager a large number of the audience were not up to taking it on board, though a few were - and indeed one of the orchestra players in the background _was_ listening with intent. I'd wager as many of the general listening audience, and classically trained players today, are still prejudiced in their view of synthesizers as 'lesser' instruments. Certainly as a synthesis who has engaged a great number of classical / orchestral players and composers, I find that prejudice to be quite widespread.
@nsbd90now
@nsbd90now 3 жыл бұрын
I had all those early synth records. Strange how today they sound more 8-bit or digital than the 70s-analog that is really linked with Moog.
@MargaretLeber
@MargaretLeber 11 ай бұрын
I remember watching this original broadcast.
@harukatakahashi8822
@harukatakahashi8822 10 ай бұрын
What year please?
@CthulhuOO7
@CthulhuOO7 3 жыл бұрын
5:20 He totally gets it, like he can see 100 years into the future.
@michael4576
@michael4576 3 жыл бұрын
That's a girl
@CthulhuOO7
@CthulhuOO7 3 жыл бұрын
@@michael4576 Was talking about Bernstein.
@kevinsturges6957
@kevinsturges6957 3 жыл бұрын
2:40. as the Dalek wheels out from behind the set.
@vigilancebrandon
@vigilancebrandon 3 жыл бұрын
Haha was thinking the same thing. Truly a behemoth
@Jimbo386000
@Jimbo386000 3 жыл бұрын
Exterminate!
@stephenhall11
@stephenhall11 2 жыл бұрын
I remember well when our music director brought Switch On Bach in and gave it a spin on the turntable and pretty much everybody in the band really dug it. I listened to it for the rest of the year.And I think the Brandenburg sounds new and refreshing in the synth. Somehow synthesizers go really well with Space and all the galaxies out there. They just seem to fit. It is music to go to Mars by.
@thechilledonion9313
@thechilledonion9313 3 жыл бұрын
It's hard to figure nowadays how this was revolutionnary at the time. And, it was pure analog tech !
@Melissa0774
@Melissa0774 10 ай бұрын
The American classical music scene today, NEEDS someone else like him to come on the scene so badly.
@cody_go_create
@cody_go_create 19 күн бұрын
Helps me appreciate every note of the original
@wesleyleigh4063
@wesleyleigh4063 3 жыл бұрын
Ohh so this is where Keygen.exe music is from
@broklee
@broklee 3 жыл бұрын
LmoA 1911 YIFY .x264 repack
@StrandCheckout
@StrandCheckout 3 жыл бұрын
My god can't unhear
@justsupersteve
@justsupersteve 3 жыл бұрын
You deserve the best KZbin comment section award!
@teldrah
@teldrah 3 жыл бұрын
lmao those Keygens knew no chill. You would open them up and they would instantly start blaring some god awful chiptune rendition of Gangsters Paradise at 250% system volume.
@justsupersteve
@justsupersteve 3 жыл бұрын
In the old Ps1 days when you played pirate copies and they started with a Russian menu called "kalypso" and the same music playing 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣😂
@BetamaxFlippy
@BetamaxFlippy 7 ай бұрын
Very glad that the excerpt was expanded to include full presentation and performance ❤
@julian.castro18
@julian.castro18 3 жыл бұрын
I never have thought that I'd see Bernstein playing chiptune music.
@harukatakahashi8822
@harukatakahashi8822 10 ай бұрын
Bernstein?
@christophedevos3760
@christophedevos3760 2 жыл бұрын
I can also recommend the Buchla synthesizer, as heard on Morton Subotnick's wonderful piece 'Silver apples of the moon'.
@kristianbailes2974
@kristianbailes2974 3 жыл бұрын
i find it crazy that this was considered “inter-planetary” and revolutionary in 1969, especially because these sounds are common nowadays
@stephenshoihet2590
@stephenshoihet2590 3 жыл бұрын
Well, consider that commercial jet service only started in 1952, in 1969 many people didn't own a television and if they did it was probably black and white and having a portable transistor radio was popular. Up to the point of switched on Bach, synths were still relatively rare outside of academic settings. 2001 a space odyssey is probably the first time many people were exposed to that type of music. I find it pretty amusing that for the longest time I was dying for good quality sampled instruments and now I spend a lot of time composing things with synth sounds :-D
@3LegDogTube
@3LegDogTube Жыл бұрын
Always a treat to hear Flying Bernstein explain the ceremonial dances.
@jerrystauffer2351
@jerrystauffer2351 3 ай бұрын
You are a Stan Freburg fan, a gentleman, and a scholar.
@koreboredom4302
@koreboredom4302 3 жыл бұрын
Amazing how that entire machine can now fit in a USB drive smaller than my pinkie today.
@mrkv4k
@mrkv4k 3 жыл бұрын
It can't. We are just able to very closely approximate those functions mathematically, so you can have a fully digital machine that does almost the same. Analog one would be still at least the size of a phone, even with the most advanced technology we currently have.
@josephharold808
@josephharold808 3 жыл бұрын
@@mrkv4k I'd love a handheld honest-to-god analog moog (or moog clone) to piddle around with.
@agnidas5816
@agnidas5816 3 жыл бұрын
@@mrkv4k No. It would be the size of a keyboard. The keys are still there. We have to play on something.
@mrkv4k
@mrkv4k 3 жыл бұрын
@@agnidas5816 Sure. But the keyboard could be small or external.
@ilcugginocanadese
@ilcugginocanadese 3 жыл бұрын
This is available as a VSTi for any DAW from Mixcraft to Pro Tools.
@NoahSpurrier
@NoahSpurrier 3 ай бұрын
Respect for the music. It’s a different interpretation.
@chickenflavor9880
@chickenflavor9880 3 жыл бұрын
One of the best videos on the internet.
@stokenhotter
@stokenhotter 11 ай бұрын
1:35 - "Anyway, what do I know about oscillators and patch panels and all that jazz". Lenny for the win.
@arthurroberts491
@arthurroberts491 4 жыл бұрын
About 1989 I attended a meeting of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society San Francisco chapter. The speaker was the chairman of Stanford University Music department and the topic of his presentation was electronic music. The most interesting point he made was about how we perceive music. He said we can create sounds with perfect pitch, perfect timing, perfect attack, perfect sustain, perfect decay, perfect overtones, and all the other stuff that goes into music; and it sounds absolutely dead. What is missing is the subtle variations in timing, pitch, volume, all that stuff humans do when they play an instrument. Skip ahead two years and I am sitting at my desk at home doing homework for my master’s degree in software engineering. The radio announcer introduces the next piece, a piano solo by a famous Japanese pianist. I sort of half heard it while I was busy typing away. Ten minutes later it hit me like a brick. I was not listening to the piano anymore. I was only listening to that other stuff. His fingernails on the keys, his wheezing breath, the creaking of the piano bench, the actions of the piano, the echo in the room, and all that other stuff that makes music so interesting to listen to.
@eldruidacosmico
@eldruidacosmico 4 жыл бұрын
Also there are variations in tempo that are natural emotional responses to the music itself and seem to come natural if many musicians are playing together, it's not only vibration, there is also a certain underlying rythm in the universe that affects music and viceversa. My conclusion is that music can't really be explained from the materialistic perspective only, there is a metaphysical aspect to music and, as a composer, I can tell you that you only put in like 30% of the creativity, the rest seems to come from somewhere else, Plato called it the world of ideas, I just call it God.
@vigilancebrandon
@vigilancebrandon 3 жыл бұрын
I agree. Although I think it’s worth acknowledging that (and I think this is demonstrated in videos like this one) much of what is fascinating, valuable, and gratifying about synthesizers and elements unique to electronic music is the potential for completely novel timbral exploration, as well as new ways to take control out of the performer’s hands.
@polyman4
@polyman4 11 ай бұрын
No i don't agree I have heard some fantastic music programmed by humans but 'performed' by machines. Who is to tell me that myself and many others are wrong in our musical reactions?
@MysticMorigan1998
@MysticMorigan1998 11 ай бұрын
I grew up taking singing lessons. We were middle class, but when dad got laid off in 08, we had to stop. I was in 3rd grade, now I'm 26. But I too listen for vocalists and singers to pause and hold their breath in between lines because I was taught to do so. I love weird and creative music, from the automatic fair organs playing modern music, to vocaloid programs. Something that has always stood out to me, is that one voice bank, called Megpoid Gumi, despite being released first in Japanese language, she's my favorite to hear sing because she's so BREATHY. THEY MADE A ROBOT VOICE BREATHY! I've listened to her sing Skyfall by Adele countless times.
@pancudowny
@pancudowny 3 жыл бұрын
I love how the girl at 3:07 is listening so intently, as if trying to gain an understanding of what she's hearing. Bets are she went on to become some type of electronic or dance music artist. ;)
@MirceaLazar
@MirceaLazar 3 жыл бұрын
This is actually how i hear bach when i play! Amazing.
@walfredswanson
@walfredswanson 10 ай бұрын
This! Launched my life with classical music. I still remember watching this program which included the New York Rock and Roll Ensemble as well. I could not get that theme from the fugue out of my head.
@ElSWVisitor
@ElSWVisitor 3 жыл бұрын
The kids' reactions are great 😂
@andycordy5190
@andycordy5190 Жыл бұрын
Context is everything! Bernstein presents so beautifully and reverentially and the monolithic horror is wheeled on by careful porters. However, as the music begins, a television camera appears to one side and we realise that the leviathan of TV technology, already assymilated by the audience for all its revolutionary complexity, is way more extraordinary than the early synthesiser centre stage. As the meistro explains, it's the application of the synthesiser which makes the kids bug out! I'm now in my late 60s and was hooked like millions of other listeners by "Switched on Bach" 50 years ago. As Bernstein points out, it gave a tremendous boost to the popularity of JS Bach worldwide to gramaphone listeners like me, who would not be able to go to concerts, at a time when serious performing musicians might well have as much or more appreciation for his sons CPE or even WF Bach and baroque music was almost never heard except in lavish orchestral arrangements and a few forward thinking education centres. Thank you so much for this.
@derekflanderschang9654
@derekflanderschang9654 3 жыл бұрын
4:09 guys in the back “Yeah our jobs are safe.”
@Kaptain13Gonzo
@Kaptain13Gonzo Ай бұрын
This is a very interesting performance. I remember the appearance synthesizer into the world of music. I grew up in a family with a long history of listening to classical music both live and recorded. The MOOG was completely out of left field. There was Wendy Carlos and her work. This while the he is a she thing was barely mentioned as that was even more beyond the pale. I only recently was able to track down a vinyl set of Carlos' Brandenburg Concertos. There are no CDs or downloads so 'old school' is the only way to enjoy her music at home. I've seen those faces on that crowd when synths appeared. I made those faces. And then I embraced it. In the end, it is the music that matters.
@_PJW_
@_PJW_ Жыл бұрын
'Bach' and 'Bernstein' in one sentence epitomizes the 20th century for me.
@troybradley1927
@troybradley1927 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you Leonard Bernstein. I appreciate your open mind to new things.
@avdsite
@avdsite 3 жыл бұрын
Sounds like A Clockwork Orange Soundtrack. Thanx HAL
@boltzman9654
@boltzman9654 3 жыл бұрын
The kids' reactions are priceless!
@karl9313
@karl9313 3 жыл бұрын
4:25 the kid be like: "Maybe I could make money out of this shit in the future"
@karolakkolo123
@karolakkolo123 3 жыл бұрын
Lmao
@joeyhardin5903
@joeyhardin5903 3 жыл бұрын
and he grew up to be eminem
@SNCKPCK
@SNCKPCK 3 жыл бұрын
NOW THATS WHAT I CALL A MOMENT IN TIME!
@jamespilcher5287
@jamespilcher5287 3 жыл бұрын
That stack of gear looks extremely precarious from the side.
@karlmortoniv2951
@karlmortoniv2951 3 жыл бұрын
Not just me then. The wobbling tape player freaked me out.
@chriswinkler284
@chriswinkler284 3 жыл бұрын
The reel-to-reel accessory sitting on top was the icing on the cake for me =)
@AdrianDeVore
@AdrianDeVore 3 жыл бұрын
One of my late Aunt had that LP, Switched on Bach. When I first heard it in high school, it was a weird listening experience.
@xpump876
@xpump876 Жыл бұрын
It was great to see this acknowledged by Messrs. Bernstein back then Today in 2023 there has been a huge resurgence of control voltage based (CV controlled) modular synthesizers that Boob Moog helped roll-out.
@larshoel
@larshoel 3 жыл бұрын
Call me crazy but not only is the synthesizer there just for show, I don’t believe the tape playback is coming off that Ampex 601-2 recorder. If you look carefully, the VU meters aren’t moving.
@baruchben-david4196
@baruchben-david4196 10 ай бұрын
Reminds me of a record I had called Switched-On Bach by (then) Walter Carlos, now Wendy Carlos. I really enjoyed that record...
@fordmodelT1957
@fordmodelT1957 11 ай бұрын
Bach famously said “You can do what you want with my music, but don't make me boring.”
@Alpha-Andromeda
@Alpha-Andromeda 3 жыл бұрын
1969 + MOOG + Bach! ❣️🤯❣️ And Bernstein most amazing as always
@cbmsysmobile
@cbmsysmobile 3 жыл бұрын
I've got a Quadraphonic LP of Switch on Bach somewhere in my collection.
@KC9UDX
@KC9UDX 3 жыл бұрын
I hope you still have a Quadraphonic demodulator. I'm not sure that I do anymore.
@echodelta9
@echodelta9 3 жыл бұрын
Walter-Wendy was-is still into multi-channel sound. That landmark album was intended to be rendered in quad sound from the beginning. I used it in a demo on quad sound in a 1971 science fair entry. Most of that great time period was mastered in quad and is available one way or another today.
@KC9UDX
@KC9UDX 3 жыл бұрын
@@echodelta9 did you ever see that Comedy Central parody, Carla Wendos? I can't get that out of my head.
@benjaminh.abraham6815
@benjaminh.abraham6815 3 жыл бұрын
The first chip tune remix of the little fugue in g minor by jsbach
@doom705
@doom705 3 жыл бұрын
2:24 when the song starts! =3
@MENTIONED_YOU
@MENTIONED_YOU 3 жыл бұрын
This started my life as an electronic musician in 1978 (switch on bach and a clockwork orange)
@Algoritmarte
@Algoritmarte 4 жыл бұрын
Great!!! I would like to know if one some of those children got involved in synthesizers (as musicians or technicians) later in their lives.
@garywoolcott4013
@garywoolcott4013 3 жыл бұрын
I worked at Fine Recording with Walter Sear and recorded some stuff with my band Pleasant Dreams and Andromeda-NYC at Walter Sear Studio - Sear Sound what a great memory
@bcgrittner8076
@bcgrittner8076 2 жыл бұрын
W. Carlos really helped me connect with Bach and the other classic composers. Switched On Bach opened the door and I never looked back. Now, add the lyrics to this fugue: Bach was born in sixteen hundred eighty-five.
@DJ-ALIXX
@DJ-ALIXX 2 жыл бұрын
Awesome !!!
@tubesteakjohnson
@tubesteakjohnson 3 жыл бұрын
4:17 Charlie from "Willy Wonka" Fame?...
@hudsoncampos2201
@hudsoncampos2201 2 жыл бұрын
very cool
Wendy Carlos demonstrates her Moog Synthesizer in 1970
3:57
soup
Рет қаралды 3,5 МЛН
How the TRON Music was made
15:09
Alex Ball
Рет қаралды 163 М.
GIANT Gummy Worm #shorts
0:42
Mr DegrEE
Рет қаралды 152 МЛН
UFC 287 : Перейра VS Адесанья 2
6:02
Setanta Sports UFC
Рет қаралды 486 М.
Wendy Carlos Interview 1989 BBC Two
4:10
automatic_bazooti
Рет қаралды 1,1 МЛН
Bach/Vivaldi 3/3
3:26
Ghislain Gourvennec
Рет қаралды 45 М.
Oscar Peterson Synth
6:33
Rodolfo Cortes R.
Рет қаралды 839 М.
Bach: “Little” Fugue in g minor for Low Recorder Quartet
2:51
James Howard Young
Рет қаралды 569 М.
Bob Moog & Wendy Carlos Interview
6:29
2N2646 Relaxation
Рет қаралды 105 М.
Discovering Electronic Music (1983)
21:42
Baghira Drums
Рет қаралды 377 М.
We'll meet again performed on a Hammond Novachord built in 1939
2:15
GIANT Gummy Worm #shorts
0:42
Mr DegrEE
Рет қаралды 152 МЛН