Wendy Carlos
Sign in to saveAmerican composer and electronic musician (born 1939)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1939-11-14
- Works
- 1
via Open Library + Wikidata
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
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 173,870
- Total plays
- 1,937,765
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electronicSoundtrackClassicalexperimentalmoog
(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 41,231x
- Atoms, molecules, solids, and surfaces: Applications of the generalized gradient approximation for exchange and correlation
· 1992 · cited 21,500x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,321x
- 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 15,235x
- Integrative genomics viewer
· 2011 · cited 14,470x
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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
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 14 November 1939
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Walter
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Pawtucket
- Occupation
- musician
- Educated at
- Columbia University
- Employer
- Computer Music Center
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
Article
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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1939 births20th-century American classical composers20th-century American inventors20th-century American keyboardists20th-century American LGBTQ people20th-century American women composers21st-century American classical composers21st-century American keyboardists21st-century American LGBTQ people21st-century American women composersAccuracy disputes from December 2023