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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 February 2025. American composer and electronic musician (born 1939) Wendy Carlos Born (1939-11-14) November 14, 1939 (age 85) Pawtucket, Rhode Island, U.S. Genres Electronic classical ambient jazz Occupations Musician composer record producer Instruments Keyboards synthesizer vocoder Years active 1964 ...
Switched-On Bach is the debut album by the American composer Wendy Carlos, released in October 1968 by Columbia Records.Produced by Carlos and Rachel Elkind, the album is a collection of pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach performed by Carlos and Benjamin Folkman on a Moog synthesizer.
Sonic Seasonings is a studio double album by American keyboardist and composer Wendy Carlos, originally released under her birth name, Walter Carlos, in 1972 by Columbia Records. The album features four ambient music tracks, each based on one of the four seasons, combining various field recordings with sounds from a Moog synthesizer.
In 1969, during the unexpected commercial success of her debut studio album Switched-On Bach (1968), Carlos and her friend, collaborator, and producer Rachel Elkind started work on a follow-up using the same formula as Switched-On Bach: performing selections of classical music on a modular Moog synthesizer. Carlos planned to record an ...
It was the first album she released under the name of Wendy Carlos rather than Walter Carlos. Switched-On Brandenburgs is a collection of all six of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos performed by Carlos on her Moog modular synthesizer. Concerti #1, (most of) #2, and #6 were recorded specifically for the album.
Moog developed the synthesizer in response to demand for more practical and affordable electronic music equipment, guided by suggestions and requests from composers including Herb Deutsch, Richard Teitelbaum, Vladimir Ussachevsky and Wendy Carlos. Moog's principal innovation was voltage control, which uses voltage to control pitch. He also ...
Switched-On Rock is an album by the Moog Machine, released in 1969 on Columbia Records. It comprises instrumental covers of popular songs from the 1960s, performed on the Moog synthesizer. It was one of a spate of albums capitalizing on the success of Switched-On Bach (1968), an album of Bach pieces performed on the Moog by Wendy Carlos.
Tron: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album for the 1982 film of the same name, composed by Wendy Carlos with two additional musical tracks performed by the band Journey. The album was released on July 9, 1982, the day of release of the film.