Synth genius Wendy Carlos studied physics & #music at Brown & Columbia. She helped develop the 1st Moog synthesizer & her 1968 classical album Switched-On Bach went platinum. She brought music & tech together & composed soundtracks for A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Tron & more.
Carlos was assigned male at birth & transitioned to female. Unfortunately, many journalists focus more on her gender than her accomplishments that changed music forever. wendycarlos.com #history #HistoryRemix
Wendy Carlos HomePage
The Official Wendy Carlos HomePage. The definitive Web collection of information about the pioneer synthesist and composer (and solar eclipse photographer), including a "Write Wendy" Maildrop.www.wendycarlos.com
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Always worth to view
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •unfortunately journalists… but musicians and synth enthusiasts know who SHE is and focus on her genius more than gender.
She’s a trailblazer who’s opened the door for many trans- and cis-women to get into electronic sounds making. Legend!
JimHarper3
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Switched On Bach and A Clockwork Orange were works of utter genius, all recorded with monophonic Moog's and then multi-tracked. Every sound had to be designed by hand, with no presets and no midi.
Completely outstanding.
Bonnie Sonder
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Just like the journalists you are criticising.
You are no better.
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Wendy's works were a huge impression on me as a child. First through Tron, then through the tech aspects I studied in my local library.
Amazing legacy, and amazing human.
Tom Resing
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •The Well-Tempered Synthesizer. My dad had it on high rotation around our house in the 70s.
Buster McNutt
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And I've even owned the A Clockwork Orange soundtrack since last century.
Priscilla Haring-Kuipers
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •!!!! THIS Wendy Carlos!
Awhile back I was trying to understand how musical scales worked. The math is relatively simple, and can yield different scales by making different assumptions (i.e. an octave base of 2, the divisions of twelve.) As it out, Wendy Carlos had already derived other scales and had written it up: wendycarlos.com/resources/pitc…
Wendy Carlos Pitch article
www.wendycarlos.comThe DJ Mr P
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Yeah, she's the patron saint of trans girl beepboopers.
What I've always wondered is if the song "Video Killed the Radio Star" is referencing her.
Dan York
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •"Switched On Bach" was even more impressive when you consider that those early Series 900 Moogs had a serious problem with pitch drift. (We had one at #Oberlin Conservatory back in the Seventies.)
Carlos and her producer Rachel Elkind (sp?) could only record a few notes before the oscillators started to drift off tune. So the entire album was cut together (literally) a few notes at a time using razor blades and adhesive tape.
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