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Wendy Carlos (Music)
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Wendy Carlos (born November 14, 1939), is an American composer, electronic musician, and synthesizer engineer.She is one of the pioneers in adapting Classical Music to Electronic Music, and is notable for being one of the first Transgender public figures to be open about their gender affirming surgery; for a while after her transition, Carlos' works were still being published under her birth name, with Carlos not publicly coming out until 1979 thanks to her personal concerns surrounding how her identity would be received. After coming out, however, these and previous works have since been republished under her current name (as for the public response, she described it as "surprisingly indifferent").Carlos first gained notoriety with the landmark album Switched-On Bach (1968), which interpreted music by Johann Sebastian Bach in a futuristic way, played entirely on a Moog synthesizer. This was a controversial move, especially because of Bach's divine status among music lovers and the fact that nobody ever tried to play these 200 year-old works in such a modern fashion. In spite of this, the album sold well, won three Grammys, and introduced many young people to the genre, those who normally would never listen to classical music.In 1971, Carlos was approached by Stanley Kubrick to score A Clockwork Orange; she gave Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th Symphony, "Funeral Music for Queen Mary" by Henry Purcell and the final of Gioachino Rossini's "William Tell" Overture a similar approach. The distinctive and recognizable musical style led to that score becoming a Cult Soundtrack, and has been imitated and covered by countless other electronic musicians since. Kubrick hired Carlos again to electronicize Hector Berlioz's "Dies irae" for The Shining. Another famous movie she was involved with was the Cult Classic TRON, for which she composed an original score. | |
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Pop-Cultural Osmosis | |
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Pop-Cultural Osmosis: Carlos is better known for scoring work of other, more famous composers than for her own music. The fact that she was one of the first celebrities to undergo a sex change and openly disclose it has also made her more notable than her music in some circles. | |
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Ambient | |
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Ambient: The album Sonic Seasonings, an early example of the genre, blended field recordings with synthesized sounds. | |
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Cult Soundtrack | |
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Cult Soundtrack: Scored the electronic music for seminal films such as Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and The Shining. She also composed the soundtrack for TRON, where she provided both the orchestral as well as the electronic music. | |
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Alliterative Title: Her 1972 album Sonic Seasonings. | |
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Non-Indicative Name: Switched-On Bach 2000 was released eight years earlier than the title indicates. | |
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Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant | |
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Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Her rendition of Henry Purcell's "Funeral Music for Queen Mary", famously used as the intro to A Clockwork Orange, and Hector Berlioz' "Dies Irae" from "Symphonie Fantastique", used as the intro to The Shining are extremely creepy, especially compared to the original music. | |
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Rock Me, Amadeus! | |
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Rock Me, Amadeus!: Carlos's most famous pieces are her Electronic Music renditions of Classical Music compositions. | |
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Double Meaning | |
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Double Meaning: Carlos’s recordings were credited to “Trans-Electronic Music Productions, Inc.”, which took on more significance after she came out as a trans electronic musician. | |
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Pun-Based Title | |
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Pun-Based Title: Her second album, The Well-Tempered Synthesizer, is a pun on J. S. Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier. | |
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Covers Always Lie | |
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Covers Always Lie: Her collaboration with "Weird Al" Yankovic on "Peter and the Wolf" seems like a straight rendition of both "Peter and the Wolf" and "Carnival of the Animals". They are, in fact, both parodies that have little to do with the original stories or music. | |
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Instrumentals | |
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Instrumentals: A given. | |
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Pop-Star Composer: For a given definition of "pop," Carlos not only made a name for herself as an electronic classical musician, but also composed songs for A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and TRON (though granted only two of the songs she wrote for The Shining — "Dies Irae" and "Rocky Mountains" — made it into the final film). | |
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Mickey Mousing | |
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Mickey Mousing: Carlos did this a few times in TRON, notably during Sark walking to the MCP core, where his footstep punctuations are actually in the score, not sound effects. According to the liner notes of the CD release of the soundtrack, she actually used this much more in the original drafts of the score, but the production staff asked her to tone it down. | |
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Sequel: Switched-On Bach (1968) was followed by similar electronic Bach versions, such as The Well-Tempered Synthesizer (1969), Switched-On Bach II (1973), Switched-On Brandenburgs (1979) and Switched-On Bach 2000 (1992). | |
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Cover Album | |
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Cover Album: Her electronic renditions of famous classical pieces are effectively this. | |
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Cyber Punk Is Techno: Her score for TRON. | |
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In Harmony with Nature | |
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In Harmony with Nature: Sonic Seasonings combines music with field recordings, such as rushing wind, birdsong and sounds of insects. | |
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Alternate Album Cover | |
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Alternate Album Cover: After disclosing her 1972 gender reassignment surgery in 1979, Carlos' previous works were re-released to replace all instances of her birth name, including those on the covers, with her preferred one. | |
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