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Gender transition. Carlos became aware of her gender dysphoria at an early age, recalling: "I was about five or six ... I remember being convinced I was a little girl, much preferring long hair and girls' clothes, and not knowing why my parents didn't see it clearly".
Nov 11, 2020 · But prejudice around her gender transition pushed Wendy Carlos out of sight. Jude Rogers. Wed 11 Nov 2020 03.13 EST. T his summer, an 80-year-old synthesiser pioneer suddenly appeared online....
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Oct 22, 2020 · October 23, 2020 at 8:00 a.m. EDT. 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...
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 2, 2020 · Published September 2, 2020 at 3:58 PM EDT. Listen • 18:15. Amanda Sewell, music director at Interlochen Public Radio, has written a new biography about electric music pioneer Wendy Carlos. Before 1968, most Americans had never heard music played on a synthesizer, which was then still an emerging technology.
Oct 10, 2019 · October 10, 2019. Wendy Carlos sits at a keyboard and the synthesizer she created. Bettmann/Getty Images. Gen (d)erations, a column running throughout LGBTQ+ History Month, will explore the story and impact of one transgender figure per decade from the 1960s to today. Check out the rest here.
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.
