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Wendy Carlos
Composer Walter Carlos spurred electronic music to new commercial heights during the late 1960s, popularizing the synthesizer with the enormously successful Switched on Bach album. Born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island on November 14, 1939, Carlos pursued his M.A. in composition under Vladimir Ussachevsky and Otto Luening at Columbia University's famed Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. Following his graduation, he moved to Manhattan, where he found work as a recording engineer. In Manhattan, he met Dr. Robert Moog and, not long afterward, he began playing the Moog synthesizer. Carlos released his first recording, Switched-On Bach, in 1968. A showcase for the Moog synthesizer, Switched-On Bach interpreted the legendary composer's most renowned fugues and movements via state-of-the-art synth technology; purists were appalled, but the record captured the public's imagination and in time the album became the first classical record to be certified platinum by the RIAA. It also earned three Grammy Awards. A similar effort, The Well-Tempered Synthesizer, followed in 1969. In 1971, Carlos wrote the music for Stanley Kubrick's controversial film A Clockwork Orange, introducing the vocoder -- an electronic device designed to synthesize the human voice -- in his score. ~ All Music Guide, Rovi
Selected Discography
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Track List: Beauty In The Beast
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Track List: A Clockwork Orange: Wendy Carlos's Complete Original Score
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Track List: Switched-On Bach
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Title: Cantata No. 29, "Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir," BWV 29 (BC B8)
Composer: Wendy Carlos
Title: Initial Experiments
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Title: Two-part Invention, For Keyboard No. 8 In F Major, Bwv 779 (Bc L49)
Title: Two-part Invention, For Keyboard No. 14 In B Flat Major, Bwv 785 (Bc L55)
Title: Two-part Invention, For Keyboard No. 4 In D Minor, Bwv 775 (Bc L45)
Title: Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring
Title: Prelude and Fugue, for Keyboard No. 7 in E Flat Major (Wtc I/7), Bwv 852 (Bc L86)
Title: Prelude and Fugue, for Keyboard No. 2 in C Minor (Wtc I/2), Bwv 847 (Bc L81)
Title: Wachet Auf, Ruft Uns Die Stimme, Chorale Prelude For Organ, Bwv Anh. II 66 (Doubtful)
Title: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 In G Major, Bwv 1048
Comments
"Two years later, she wrote music for the Disney film Tron." Actually, she was still a "he" who wrote that music. No matter, the music has ALWAYS been superb.