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Wendy Carlos
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- The Well-tempered synthesizer
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Film & TV
Sound · Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States
Wendy Carlos (born 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. Studying and working with various electronic musicians and technicians at the city's…
Known for
- Sisters with Transistors — Self2021
- Wendy Carlos, Composer2007
- The Alchemists of Sound — Self2003
- Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures — Self2001
- The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest1968
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1939
Discography
- Moog 900 Series: Electronic Music Systems Demonstration Record1967
- The Well‐Tempered Synthesizer1969
- Sonic Seasonings1972
- Walter Carlos’ Clockwork Orange1972
- By Request1975
- Switched‐On Brandenburgs1980
- Switched‐On Brandenburgs: The Complete Concertos1980
- TRON1982
- Digital Moonscapes1984
- Beauty in the Beast1986
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 173,870
- Total plays
- 1,937,765
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(NOTE: Album covers and artist images are not available due to certain legal restrictions imposed on last.fm by Wendy Carlos.) Wendy Carlos (born November 14, 1939, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island) is a composer and electronic musician. Carlos trained as a composer and worked as a recording engineer before her 1968 Switched-On Bach became the first classical music album to be certified platinum. This, and subsequent albums, brought the Moog synthesizer to wider public attention, and her 1971 soundtr
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- XGBoost
· 2016 · cited 45,126x
- Atoms, molecules, solids, and surfaces: Applications of the generalized gradient approximation for exchange and correlation
· 1992 · cited 21,708x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,797x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,988x
- Integrative genomics viewer
· 2011 · cited 14,822x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1939-11-14 ) November 14, 1939 (age 86) , Pawtucket, Rhode Island , U.S.
- Genres
- Electronic classical ambient jazz
- Occupations
- Musician composer record producer
- Instruments
- Keyboards synthesizer vocoder
- Years active
- 1964–2005
- Labels
- Columbia Masterworks CBS Audion Telarc East Side Digital
- Website
- wendycarlos .com
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Encyclopedic overview
Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos, November 14, 1939) is an American musician and composer known for 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. Studying and working with various electronic musicians and technicians at the city's Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, she helped in the development of the Moog synthesizer, Robert Moog's first commercially available keyboard instrument.
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