Introduction

Cynth history is a podcast on synthesizes, drum machines and the musicians that use them. This week we talk about wendy carlos who was one of the first openly trans musicians to come out at a time when coming out as transe was relatively new to the world. Wendy's 19 68 album switched on bach introduced the world to what synthesizes were capable of. The record featured ten pieces of music by german composer johan sebastian backh performed entirely by wendy with mogsit. Georgio maroder cites the album as one of his earliest and deepest influencesgeorgio of courrse wol go on to produce disco hits for