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These are still copyrighted recordings, and they seem to be available in the usual places you would find copyrighted digital audio.

Her work is not licensed for digital distribution, and largely out of print.

So, there's unfortunately no way to compensate her directly for her works.

And "work" is an understatement. Moog synths of the day were barely instruments. Imagine playing a symphony (symphonic arrangement) using only a single glass filled with water.

You could get any note you wanted, but only one at a time and even that required constant retuning.



It’s not quite as a bad as a single glass. More like 61 glasses, but you can only strike one at a time.

And on the other hand, you can glissando smoothly between any 2 notes. Not many other instruments in the orchestra can say that!

Pitch drift due to temperature fluctuations was quite bad, it’s true, but it becomes part of the charm of those “switched-on” records.


Some of it made it to CD, like the Switched-On Boxed Set.




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