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Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos, November 14, 1939) [1] is an American musician and composer best known for her electronic music and film scores. Born and raised in Rhode Island, Carlos studied physics and music at Brown University before moving to New York City in 1962 to study music composition at Columbia University.
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.
Dec 12, 2022 · Wendy Carlos: The brilliant but lonely life of an electronic music pioneer. The musician helped create the Moog synthesizer and composed groundbreaking albums and film scores, but lived in...
Feb 8, 2023 · Wendy Carlos won three Grammy awards in 1970, making her the first trans woman ever to win at the prestigious awards ceremony. Here’s her story...
Jun 28, 2023 · KEYS WEEK 2023: Wendy Carlos is one of the greatest living pioneers in the worlds of both music and technology. Indeed, without her work and the release of the seminal recording, Switched-On Bach, you could easily argue that the history of synthesizers and synthesizer music would be very different.
Electronic music composer Wendy Carlos - whose debut album Switched-On Bach has introduced a new audience to classical music - explains the fundamentals of e...
Sep 3, 2024 · Wendy Carlos (born November 14, 1939, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, U.S.) is a groundbreaking musician and composer whose use of the synthesizer blazed a trail in the use of electronic instruments and composition. She is most well known for her Grammy -winning 1968 album Switched-On Bach.
From the beginning, composer and synthesist Wendy Carlos has not followed a conventional music course. Born in Pawtucket, R.I., she started piano lessons at age six and exhibited talents for graphic arts and the sciences, winning a Westinghouse Science Fair scholarship for a home built computer.
Apr 25, 2023 · American composer, engineer, inventor and genre creator Wendy Carlos is one of the most innovative figures in the world of synthesizers and electronic music. After studying physics and music at Brown University, Rhode Island, she became a mastering engineer and eventually pursued a more compositional role in New York.
Aug 11, 2015 · Meet Wendy Carlos: The Trans Godmother of Electronic Music. By Natasha MacDonald-Dupuis. August 11, 2015, 10:40am. In 1968, Wendy Carlos took a Moog synthesizer, an unknown instrument at the...
