The Moog synthesizer was brought to the mainstream in 1968 by Switched-On Bach, a bestselling album of Bach compositions arranged for Moog synthesizer by American composer Wendy Carlos. The album achieved critical and business success, profitable the 1970 Grammy Awards for Best Classical Album, Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist or Soloists , and Best Engineered Classical Recording. This section may include info not essential or relevant to the article’s subject. The intense activity occurring at CPEMC and elsewhere inspired previous the establishment of the San Francisco Tape Music Center in 1963 by Morton Subotnick, with extra members Pauline Oliveros, Ramon Sender, Anthony Martin, and Terry Riley. Milton Babbitt composed his first electronic work using the synthesizer—his Composition for Synthesizer —which he created utilizing the RCA synthesizer at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. In the same 12 months Columbia University purchased its first tape recorder—a skilled Ampex machine—to record concert events.
