Switched-On Bach by Wendy Carlos is an absoloutely revolutionary album in the realm of synthesizers, released in 1968. It served an extremely crucial role in showing listeners that synthesizers can be used to make more conventional music, and not just experimental music. However, Wendy Carlos' work is infamous for being extremely hard to find/non-existent on the internet due to her constant copyright strikes. The album is still avaialable to purchase in sites like discogs, but I can't seem to find a digitized version, and any attempts to archive it on archive.org have been shut down. It's not available literally anywhere in the web, and all the torrents containing it seem to be dead too. I put this here because this is technically not lost but also not archived at all and unavailable to anyone who doesn't own a physical copy, which imo is criminal for such a revolutionary record. How can we archive this work? Has this already been done? Thanks in advance everyone <3
I'm gonna imagine she strikes them down because she doesn't want to be remembered for those songs?
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Switched-On Bach by Wendy Carlos is an absoloutely revolutionary album in the realm of synthesizers, released in 1968. It served an extremely crucial role in showing listeners that synthesizers can be used to make more conventional music, and not just experimental music. However, Wendy Carlos' work is infamous for being extremely hard to find/non-existent on the internet due to her constant copyright strikes. The album is still avaialable to purchase in sites like discogs, but I can't seem to find a digitized version, and any attempts to archive it on archive.org have been shut down. It's not available literally anywhere in the web, and all the torrents containing it seem to be dead too. I put this here because this is technically not lost but also not archived at all and unavailable to anyone who doesn't own a physical copy, which imo is criminal for such a revolutionary record. How can we archive this work? Has this already been done? Thanks in advance everyone <3
I'm gonna imagine she strikes them down because she doesn't want to be remembered for those songs?
Not really, she and her lawyers seem to just have a really twisted idea on online "piracy" and they constantly abuse copyright laws. They've even taken people to court for using pieces of her music on videos. A lot of people have also had copyright strikes on their channels for posting their own covers of wendy's arrangements, or even just for playing Bach on a synthesizer. There's a bit more on that on this thread if you're interested : Modwiggler Thread
This makes archiving her work extremely difficult, and jumping through hoops. It's all a shame really, for the woman labeled (rightfully so) the trans godmother of electronic music to just shut down any "bootleg" release of her work with copyright law abuse, without having an official release anywhere herself.
I'm gonna imagine she strikes them down because she doesn't want to be remembered for those songs?
Not really, she and her lawyers seem to just have a really twisted idea on online "piracy" and they constantly abuse copyright laws. They've even taken people to court for using pieces of her music on videos. A lot of people have also had copyright strikes on their channels for posting their own covers of wendy's arrangements, or even just for playing Bach on a synthesizer. There's a bit more on that on this thread if you're interested : Modwiggler Thread
This makes archiving her work extremely difficult, and jumping through hoops. It's all a shame really, for the woman labeled (rightfully so) the trans godmother of electronic music to just shut down any "bootleg" release of her work with copyright law abuse, without having an official release anywhere herself.
Sounds like some ultra elitist hoarder bullcrap. You know, those guys who keep unarchived pieces of media to themselves & make sure NO ONE ELSE ever gets to see it. This has happened a lot with unreleased games, especially those from the 80s & 90s.
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I suppose you could buy the album, rip it and then host it privately maybe somewhere like MEGA where others can access via a link.
Considering how insane they are, they probably know MEGA already & will strike that down as well.
it's harder to strike down a mega folder if you make it so people will need the encryption key to view it. If you put it on a torrent then it will be saved forever as people will download it and it's almost impossible to take down a torrent.
Just wanna let you know that this is absolutely archived, it's just likely to be taken down from YouTube and similar sites. Not sure I can tell you exactly where to look as it's considered piracy, but it can be found readily within P2P networks.
Just wanna let you know that this is absolutely archived, it's just likely to be taken down from YouTube and similar sites. Not sure I can tell you exactly where to look as it's considered piracy, but it can be found readily within P2P networks.
Considering who we're dealing with, I will not be surprised if they TRY their absolute darndest to take those down as well.
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Post by sakuraradiochan on Jun 18, 2024 7:46:01 GMT
This isn't lost at all. Buy a CD. I have it on CD and vinyl. IIRC the only media of hers that's lost and found and on the Internet is the quad mix of the Clockwork Orange OST, which she didn't mind being up there.
She copyright strikes it because it's her intellectual property and she wants to still be able to make money off of it.
This isn't lost at all. Buy a CD. I have it on CD and vinyl. IIRC the only media of hers that's lost and found and on the Internet is the quad mix of the Clockwork Orange OST, which she didn't mind being up there.
She copyright strikes it because it's her intellectual property and she wants to still be able to make money off of it.
Regarding your last statement, I'd like to mention there's currently no way I can monitarily benefit Wendy Carlos while buying her CDs. I can only buy second hand. So how exactly does she make money off of it? I can't buy it off her, and she doesn't even just claim the uploads so she gets any money the videos make, she just completely takes them down. I have managed to obtain the album through other means, but this is NOT the only way you should be able to listen to one of the most influential albums of all time. Either buying second hand or illegally downloading is just ridicoulous.
This isn't lost at all. Buy a CD. I have it on CD and vinyl. IIRC the only media of hers that's lost and found and on the Internet is the quad mix of the Clockwork Orange OST, which she didn't mind being up there.
She copyright strikes it because it's her intellectual property and she wants to still be able to make money off of it.
Regarding your last statement, I'd like to mention there's currently no way I can monitarily benefit Wendy Carlos while buying her CDs. I can only buy second hand. So how exactly does she make money off of it? I can't buy it off her, and she doesn't even just claim the uploads so she gets any money the videos make, she just completely takes them down. I have managed to obtain the album through other means, but this is NOT the only way you should be able to listen to one of the most influential albums of all time. Either buying second hand or illegally downloading is just ridicoulous.
It's not ridiculous when it's one of the most common albums out there and the CD can be had for as little as $5 on Discogs.
If you object to her business practices, why not email her and tell her how you feel?
Regarding your last statement, I'd like to mention there's currently no way I can monitarily benefit Wendy Carlos while buying her CDs. I can only buy second hand. So how exactly does she make money off of it? I can't buy it off her, and she doesn't even just claim the uploads so she gets any money the videos make, she just completely takes them down. I have managed to obtain the album through other means, but this is NOT the only way you should be able to listen to one of the most influential albums of all time. Either buying second hand or illegally downloading is just ridicoulous.
It's not ridiculous when it's one of the most common albums out there and the CD can be had for as little as $5 on Discogs.
If you object to her business practices, why not email her and tell her how you feel?
Again, by purchasing this on Discogs, I'm not benefiting Wendy. Discogs is for used CDs/3rd party sellers. I can't name *any* other artist who does this without making their work available anywhere, or giving us any way to benefit them financially. It's bizzare and it makes 0 sense
It's not ridiculous when it's one of the most common albums out there and the CD can be had for as little as $5 on Discogs.
If you object to her business practices, why not email her and tell her how you feel?
Again, by purchasing this on Discogs, I'm not benefiting Wendy. Discogs is for used CDs/3rd party sellers. I can't name *any* other artist who does this without making their work available anywhere, or giving us any way to benefit them financially. It's bizzare and it makes 0 sense
So email her and ask?
If you want it and it's cheaply available it's not lost media by far.
Again, by purchasing this on Discogs, I'm not benefiting Wendy. Discogs is for used CDs/3rd party sellers. I can't name *any* other artist who does this without making their work available anywhere, or giving us any way to benefit them financially. It's bizzare and it makes 0 sense
So email her and ask?
If you want it and it's cheaply available it's not lost media by far.
Did you even READ my original post? I said it's not lost media. I just believe it's not as accessible as it should be