@@user-nt9mt5br1q she was a woman. she was never a man for a moment in her life.

@@roylcraft What do you mean? ^^

@@cleo5610 who tf cares? This mofo made awesome music!

@@einszweidrei9577 It's a reference to David Lynch's "Twin Peaks" series :)

@@cleo5610 that’s not true. She was born Walter carlos then changed genders. Be honest

Lmfao no way! That’s adorable ❤

Wow the more I learn about her the more awesome she becomes

Whaaaaaaat...my cat is named Paws.

That’s so adorable

Good one😹

What's the link?

truly before her time... wait does she have a cat instagram and nobody knows?

@@kingcole55 the update about the unauthorized biography about her is from August 2020. Check the bottom of the main page.

Nothing wrong with keeping it simple. Modern design fad elements are stupid and a waste of processing power and bandwidth.

@@kishascape simple and modern is a great combo

If you can explain something in a way that a child can understand it, then you know what you’re talking about. She definitely knows what she’s talking about.

@@davestevenson9080 yes, she. problem chud?

You can tell from the way she speaks, she’s a man

It's not dumbing down, it's clarifying and simplifying.

@Will he heck as like why is that relevant?

That's how geniuses roll...

That's how artists are, honestly. The same applies to Astor Piazzolla. Or other brilliant people in the history, like, Einstein, Marie Curie and many others. There are people and people, and from time to time, there appears someone who seems not to be living in this time. They don't make friends with people like us, as Richard Feynman told once to Stephen Wolfram. Wendy was a friend with Arhur C. Clarke, and not everyday you see these people writing to your email or wanting to have a talk with you. They are not on the internet, also, as they live life in totally different ways than the rest of us....

@@veronicagorosito187 I am interested in more of your thoughts about the difference in humans. I've had a contact with that type of person but with "bad intention", so imagine if Wendy wanted to mock with humans, it turns out window of brilliance opens even for some who decide to make a hell rather than good. And they cannot be played with neither pin pointed, unless you take a few years of your life to study what you never think existed. Problem is, for them that there is low self confidence carefully masked with enormus IQ, and they can be everything from teachers to scientists or famous rock star but cannot handle mocking, they cant reverse rage, they just sink and rewire their brain in lower parts of society. I like music, i all about it, but the way you described that what we cannot understand got me thinking if you understand more than that. It is a scary thing once you see how potential can go in other way and why we cannot describe it' s exsistance, but there is opposite of geniuses but on the same level. Scary. Anway, sry, i just need to get some analog synths and do what i do, but yeah, R. Feynman and those guys are different cats than us.. Cheers

@@RTCLR123 Hi, you seem to be overcomplicating it. I'm having a hard time trying to understand what do you want to know exactly 🙁 but here it goes: There's simple people, there's complicated people. Both can be either brilliant, or mediocre. Artists and scientists know they are badasses, they just shine and don''t give a single fuck to it haha! Great people are humble and kind. Others can have intelligence but seem to feed their little ego with a fake mistery halo around them. They're like black holes, absorbing light from others. My advice is: Be Yourself, is all that you can do (Audioslave).

@@RTCLR123 I get what you want to say but there are several things I need to point out. First of all, IQ is only a small part of intelligence, at least philosophically speaking : it doesn't say anything about emotional intelligence, intuition, or wisdom. Here's another head up : you said "(...) if Wendy wanted to mock with humans" This. This right here... Wendy IS human. As someone both diagnosed gifted and autistic ("asperger" as it used to be) this is SO crucial to understand. We're not "mocking" you with our "superior intelligence" : we genuinely are lost in social interactions, and just human. We might be condescendant from time to time... That does mean we can be a**holes too, but we have the entire range of emotions, just like anyone else. We have a more *unbalanced* intelligence. There are certain "basic" things we can't do proper because of executive dysfunction due the frontal cortex not responding properly in many cases of neuro-divergence, but other abilities that are natural to us can look almost super-natural to most. You are grossly generalizing when you that "they" can't handle mocking and "can't reverse rage". We do have a harder time to deal with emotions, in fact our emotional intelligence is lacking. We also have a harder time *understanding sarcasm* AND many of us had been gratuitously bullied all their life - so yes, our threshold for mocking is really, really low. If you mock me on certain things, I will have a bad reaction that comes from years of trauma, which is triggered by something you said, and you not knowing it might assume I have "bad intentions". Another of your perception that is completely wrong is that we "cannot be played with". That's not true at all. In fact, there are a lot of people with those "genius" traits who were emotionally abused. We tend to be more naïve in relationships, we don't understand many social clues, and we are also extremely honest - it is next to impossible for me to lie to get an advantage for example. Not that I cannot lie but it takes an insanely important reason. My brain is literally *wired* not to. So being so honest and socially naïve, you expect other people to be, too. Leonard Cohen was ripped-off of almost everything because his accountant of like 20 years left one day out of the blue with everything. You might want to educate yourself on the matter, because you make a whole lot of false assumptions here. We're not Gods, we're not aliens, we CAN absolutely be pin-pointed, played with, abused, and our perception can totally be wrong. We can also make more links than most, we have more synapses than most (literally, physically), and our logic is better in general BUT that does NOT mean we are always right or bored with "normal people". You act a little bit like a straight guy putting women on pedestals : we're NOT savants, we're not aliens. We are just humans really!

😂😂😂😂😂

The next progression was when they realised they make the input much easier by removing the cats and adding a mouse.

@@richardlloyd2589 aaaand there it is! slow clap

@guyontheblackchair 3 mice on the treble clef😁

This is like a DaThings1, which is appropriate I think

Kravvall Good call. Perhaps there needs to be some research into whether cats and plants were always hand in hand with synths and we only now put it together through the rise of Facebook and Instagram. 😁

@@Revelator72 She is a time traveller.

Trans people are ahead of our time :)

or before simonthemagpie came^^

it's rather she created the cat/synthesizer meme that we know of today, mad props

@@TheBigMclargehuge Why? The interview was recorded with Wendy, not Walter

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She was just as articulate in 1970.

@@ericmuschlitz7619 She would've been one hell of an electronics lecturer

yes

Underrated comment!

Though as a musician, I am not in Wendy's class, I also have to put up with cats occasionally walking across my (music) keyboard when trying to come up with something at least interesting, musically speaking. A more common Interruption is when one of them decides I have been paying too much attention to my computer screen (and not enough to them!) and then sits on that keyboard. Sometimes ruining a carefully thought out comment on YouT....

@@Nomoneynohamburger Looks like a woman, acts like a woman, wants to be a woman, that's good enough for me.

same goals here!

I here to sample the xylophone 🤷🏾‍♂️

Dogs go under. Lol

Also she is a sonic wizard, dang...

@@TheBigMclargehuge we get it, you’re transphobic 😉

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Lol, didn't even notice the cats at first!

That she and her cat have this shoulder perch thing going just boosts her 1000x as a human in my estimation. Oh to be the cat who perches on Wendy's shoulder while she works!

Damn right! ❤️

🐱👍

knowing how some cats are, that cat probably insisted on being there and would not take no for an answer

@@sarahbezold2008 Yes

Legend

I agree! I helped get her hired for Tron!

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You just called her underappreciated while listing 3 massive, triple A titles she's had a massive impact on, plus one of the most recognizable modules used in EDM today (the Moog) wouldn't have happened without her help. She's not a very public person, but I wouldn't say she's exactly underappreciated.

She's a legend, definitely not under appreciated.

@@matthijs2981 I think OP means 'underappreciated' in the sense of 'deserving to be more widely known' perhaps

i was just thinking that - i don't recall ever seeing footage of her, let alone talking! WHERE ARE YOU WENDY?? THIS SHOULD BE YOUR TIME!

Yes it’s always seemed a terrible tragedy she preferred to just leave any spotlight so long ago. Though if you look at the things that made her bristle, the focus always trying to be shifted from the work and quality itself to personal details, I can’t say I blame her. But yes these recent decades of electronic sound and music really would’ve benefited if she was in her rightful place. A place she’d have been comfortable with in how media and the public focus on her. But that was never really provided. I hope at least she knows so many of us always were focused on the music and the creator wholly, not the peering and prodding questioning she walked away from.

@@Revelator72 it's a shame she never got the chance (or refused?) to do a red bull music academy talk. the Suzanne Ciani one was really illuminating, would have loved to see Wendy given the same platform.

pabloplato Refused the spotlight is what I always find in research. Looking how long ago she seems to have left the internet altogether, it seems she’s fine to live whatever life holds for her now and in private. Though I have no idea on the Red Bull appearance situation. The Ciani one was brilliant I agree. In a perfect world we would be blessed to have such long form documents from all the great synthesists and designers.

Being a keyboard player and trans woman myself, I cannot imagine being able to list all of the ways Wendy Carlos is absolutely my hero.

Amazing!

I can do a lot of that with my li'l synth, but now I've gotta go find out about this Shake thing...

@@rickc2102 I would suspect that "Shake" would be a short burst of frequency modulation, going by the wording used ("don't scare the viewer with technical terms!") What "li'l synth" are you using, BTW?

@@rattywoof5259 ...and not "stirred"?

Me too

Oh wow, she actually has a whole series of beautiful solar eclipse pictures. Completely off-topic but thanks for this fact anyways!

She is THE giant! She uses the very expression "We stand on the shoulders of giants" - in a presentation she did for the Audio Engineering Society about Timbre, Tempo and Temperament

so…we’re the cats?

I always say … and always will say … that Wendy Carlos is _the_ Grandmama of all Electronic Music. Before Vangelis, before JMJarre, there was Wendy. Paving the way … if not inventing the paving machinery as she went!

@@John_Weiss in that time-line where does Brian Eno, Pink Floyd , and The Art of Noise belong? I say Floyd because I feel that the gad those kind samples and atmospheric effects on the there albums. Just an opinion btw.

@@sunofpeter2 In that timeline? Probably heavy collabs with Wendy. Or at the very least, having the same trajectory, but knowing the influence Wendy had on electronic music and citing that influence? How many well-known artists/groups who used a Moog __know__ Wendy Carlos' involvement in its creation or her popularization of its use through "Switched-On Bach?" Next to NONE, I would bet.

OP pls nerf? Okay

Well, at the time this was recorded, she had already been reproducing classical instruments for over 20 years, so at that point, it'd almost be weirder if she didn't know it by heart.

Thing is, Wendy is musician AND an engineer, which is a terrifying combination, because she is able to fuse art with science.

@@mournblade1066 Indeed; she understands both music AND electronics at the fundamental levels, this is why she reigns supreme as a synthesist.

@@TheBigMclargehuge Actually had the operation, so "her."

@@Dan474834 Bro go cry about Ron Paul losing in 2012

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That's so beautiful! Now you can inspire others as well 😊❤️

Are you aware of the brilliantly talented Angela Morley?

@@MsTakiHthe kitchen is calling your name

​@@MsTakiHIf something doesn't matter to you, it doesn't mean it doesn't matter to anyone else. Different lives, different perspectives. Let it be.

​@@hugodesrosiers-plaisance3156Why would you be so defensive to somebody asking a question‽ That's the problem with that culture. Simple questions are attacked & then you all wonder why NOBODY wants anything to do with you whatsoever. Then you can people 'isms & 'ists.

Her and Stanley Kubrick were a match made in heaven.

@@JosephDutra You are on top of it. Makes me wonder: what if Stanley hadn't found her?

@@rr7firefly Well, Wendy had a body of work before Kubrik. And a body of work independent of her film scores. Hell, I've been a Wendy fanboi since my teens, back in the 1980s, and I _knew nothing_ of her film score work until decades later!

Certainly captivated me when I was 13 in 1975 and I somehow got my hands on a copy of Switched On Bach.

@@josefkay5013 THAT was a killer album. A treat in every possible way. I wish I could find it on CD.

The shape of the sound waves produced by classical instruments, which show the proportion of overtones, have been a part of textbooks for decades. I have no doubt she would have access both to the charts, and to the oscilloscopes used to compare your additive synth output to the charts, especially if she was working in the University acoustic science labs. 👍

Math is a really crazy thing I’ve started to appreciate lately it’s amazing

She’s genius

It is like her love letter to Beethoven from an alternate universe. What an achievement to have a dialogue at that level.

A Clockwork Orange was my intro to her work. My dad had the album on his record shelf. That first time I heard that Funeral March was unforgettable! It changed me from disliking electronic music, into it eventually becoming one of my favorite things. Almost all of my favorite current/new artists are electronic.

And the iconic soundtrack to Tron.

Josep Duran YEAH! That TRON soundtrack is one of the only of her works that I’ve been able to buy digitally. I wish her other works were sold on digital music platforms. There must be a reason she has though so I respect that. Sometimes university libraries have music that’s hard to find. That’s how I’ve had some luck hearing some other 20th century composers’ works.

Glenn Gould loved her Brandenburg #4 very much.

Mine are "By Request," the "Tron" soundtrack and "Digital Moonscapes."

Love this comment so much.

@@boopyboop0 Thank You. 😊 The "twin sibling from a parallel universe" is how I explain being trans to clueless cis-heteros. Like I said, I'm cis, but gay. So I won't speak for someone trans if they're there, but I will speak up for my trans kin when they aren't there to do it for themselves.

@@John_Weiss reminds me a bit of the Robert-Rosalind Lutece "twins" from bioshock infinite. Two people with practically the same intellect and mannerisms, separated only by a single chromosome... and in different universes.

Wendy has done so much for electronic music, it feels so disrespectful to watch some people act like any of her personal life is their business honestly or worse yet, that their opinion on it matters. I've liked Wendy's music since I was eight years old it could come out that she was 3 children stacked in a trenchcoat all along and I wouldn't care.

@@archkull Oh, it was bad. One musicology reference had a 2 sentence entry for Wendy: the first mentioned which "real pioneers" of electronic music she studied under. The second sentence denigrated her work as being the means for, "The S3x Change." And this was _in a scholarly academic text_ in 1987. Disrespect doesn't even begin to touch it.

Shoulda seen the look on my dads face when I told him Wendy was once Walter

@@bluenorth3965 If you're referring to gay rodeo, you need to study the sport the way the animals' anatomy functions, the rules of any given event and how the event is run before making judgements about it.

@@bluenorth3965 Animals have NEVER ASKED YOU to speak up for them. NEVER.

@@bluenorth3965 No need to have a point with fundamentalists jerks.

Hey Cowboy Frank, massive respect to you. You stuck your head above the parapet here to support a transgender person and share love of her work, and a personal story of your own. Your answers are so measured and respectful to the comments below, and you should be respected too. Here's to you for being your authentic self and helping to create space for others to do the same in a challenging world and by pushing the boundaries of your own culture in a brave way. Big love from the other side of the world for making a difference where you are. X

i've yet to find the rest of this BBC short sadly :/

@@automaticbazooti Would be nice if we could get them to rebroadcast this, as there has been a lot of great old music stuff from the BBC archives over the years, rebroadcast on BBC4. But sadly, we know a lot of stuff got wiped, back in the days when it took a massive roll of (expensive) video tape just to store one hour of video. So who knows what they still have...

Found this... www.bbc.co.uk/rd/publications/whitepaper275

Wendy did a CD called "Secrets of Synthesis" which is quite remarkable.....it has a lot of things like the tidbits she briefly mentions in this video. Also, on her "Switched On Boxed Set", which has all of her Baroque recordings straight off the master tapes and digitally cleaned up, she also adds (at the end of each CD in the set ) little "how I did it" lectures and demonstrations. Both are required listening for Carlos fans, but good luck finding copies.

I don't think there's much more than this (I wish), but go to her website, there's a LOT of info she was posting since these early years. It'll took some months to read all that! Wendy is 80 years old! And keeps posting in the website from time to time, also receives emails from admirers and tech people.

I thank my music teacher for playing it and comparing it to the original instruments version. It got me hooked on electronic and classical music in one session. It was something else and novel but good, I still enjoy it.

I wholeheartedly agree with Peter's sentiments. My first exposure to her music was the Switched-on Bach album, which i heard on the radio in 1968 or 1969. It was love at first listen, and it caused me to delve deeper into the world of classical music.

I first heard Wendy's finale to Bach's 3rd Brandy, on the Columbia Records anthology album Bach's Greatest Hits - and immediately went out and got Switched on Bach, as a teenager - it hooked me for life - and made me want to be a musician - and always so deeply inspired by her amazing work and changing the world of music forever - and so much of what everyone does now digitally is all a consequence of what she pioneered starting in her basement studio with her amazing Collaborator and producer, and singer, Rachel Elkind. There should be a national holiday to celebrate Wendy Carlos!

That's the easy part Editing measure by measure, note by note is where the magic happened

Maybe!, but something perceived by you and me to be a nightmare is probably something that is meditative to her.

Me too. The score for Tron is out of this world

See her website! Same happend to me, till realizing if not for her and the work she did with Moog, we will never have all the beautiful, inspiring music we had in the past, and the tech for recording, and the implementations with MIDI, etc. I'm amazed at how much Wendy contributed to the whole music industry, working close to the people who developed the first DAW's and plugins and vsti's.

When her first album, Switched-on Bach, was released, the (late) Canadian piano virtuoso Glenn Gould stated that it was the best classical album he had ever hear, bar none.

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@@BertGrink this is the best thing I read on the internet this year so far. 👏👏👏

Many musicians of her generation are very skeptical of streaming services, it's not really that surprising.

@@ChrisLeeW00 Surprising? No. Frustrating? a little. I'll try to survive.

I have a copy of Switched On Bach on vinyl. I keep looking for other albums when I go to a record store.

As I understand it - she doesn't hold the copyrights currently - she leased them to a company that has subsequently gone bust and so her back catalogue is once again tied up in legal knots. It's a dreadful shame

@@hagbarthr Sonic seasonings is a classic masterpiece of the 1970s. Good luck w/ your search.

Currently I am a teen and I do have an interest for synthesizers thanks to Brad Fiedel.

Check out the documentary Sisters with Transistors, about a bunch of women who worked in electronic music. When a few oscillators, and a tape machine were the main tools they had to work with ( of course there's somewhat more recent stuff too in the documentary.)

Mister Apple I do what I can 👍🏻👍🏻

@@automaticbazooti It's a lot of work, but it is appreciated.

I just wanted to echo that - it's very much appreciated :)

I say let the idiots show themselves with their comments. Don’t do them the service of removing their ignorance from the history. This lady is wonderful and she is precious with her cats and her music! I was so happy to see she is still around… This era seems like so long ago… But we should try to remember it wasn’t very long ago at all… And to keep this time in history close to us.

@@automaticbazooti you are a legend.

Lisa Bella Donna 💕

So do I. "Clockwork Ah-range"

"A replicar of a xylophone"

I know, right?

Indeed... It has gained such a following that a few years ago, it was re-released commercially by Moog Music. Many others have built similar synths, like for example Doepfer.

I wondered about that, but if it isn't a big deal, why even mention it?

I see some replies to comments that allude to/are-replies-to transphobic comments, but don't see the actual transphobic comments. So someone is good about removing the hate.

@@AnonymousFreakYT yeah I don’t tolerate those goons in the slightest. I’ll delete comments and block chuds all day and night 🖕🏻😎🖕🏻

@@automaticbazooti thank you for doing that

@@Flashback_Jack Is there something wrong with appreciating that? I’m confused by your comment.

That is insane talent, wonder if anyone can match that today?

Yes that one is special, with an old fashioned type of epic tunes but very otherwordly in other ways. Always interesting to see the faces behind anonymous but memorable work. Tim Follin is my hero lately.

I do what I can 🤷‍♂️

From the first time I heard it, from her fully her own soundtrack album for Clockwork Orange, that it is the best performance of Beethoven's 9th that ever existed - and still is, even to this day - her "montage" from the Scherzo and Choral movements are perfect - and the voice in the choral movement was sung into the vocoder, so to speak, by her collaborator, Rachel Elkind, also her producer, and such an important part of the equation. She proposed the idea of doing an album of "electronic Bach" to Wendy, after hearing the Bach F-Major 2 part invention, which Wendy at done at Columbia University at the "Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center" - which was a feat in itself. Her first response, according to Wendy's playboy interview was essentially like "Really? you think anyone wants to hear that?" - but she at the same time thought it ideal for making the Moog into an expressive musical instrument - rather than the stuff of horror movies and sound effects...As you say - Wendy is pure brilliance and truly a totally visionary pioneer - and she herself in an interview said that she was aware that she was "ahead of her time" - she did all the "firsts" which then, years later, became part of the electronic music and, gulp, god help us, the "new age" music - ambient music - phenomenon and culture. Yes, I'm so in love with her!

It sure was. It was an amazing piece and still is.

@@servantofaeie1569 Yawn

Absolutely spot on!

Created by A True Artist....

john FOXX would love this

There was a ROM cartridge of her GDS patches for the Synergy. That was one of its selling points.

He also says "Carloss".

Of course she did, she knew Bob Moog personally, only Bob himself would know better how to pronounce his name ;-)

wait you pronouce it "mog" not like "moug" damn i didn't know

Clarence G “Moog” like “Rogue”

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