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Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos, November 14, 1939) 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.
Wendy Carlos is one of the most important composers living today. While primarily connected to the fields of electronic music, sound design, and alternate tunings, her compositions transcend these genres.
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.
Feb 8, 2023 · Petras’ win is historic, but she isn’t the first trans woman to win a Grammy Award. That title goes to Wendy Carlos, a truly visionary pioneer of electronic music, who helped to develop the Moog synthesiser, and was instrumental in bringing electronically-created music into the mainstream.
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.
Oct 22, 2020 · The composer and electronic musician Wendy Carlos at work in her New York recording studio in October 1979. As she broke new ground in her career and gained fame, Carlos faced...
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.
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...
Mar 31, 2022 · Switched-On Bach was the work of Wendy Carlos, an unassuming figure who would loom large in the popular imagination years later, when she became one of the first transgender individuals to openly speak about her transition.
Sep 5, 2020 · A new biography exploring the life of legendary electronic music composer Wendy Carlos has hit the shelves. Written by Amanda Sewell, music director at Interlochen Public Radio, the...
