You may not have any idea who Wendy Carlos is or what her groundbreaking debut album sounds like. You might not be familiar with the very strange musical instrument she helped introduce to the world ...

American composer, engineer, inventor and genre creator Wendy Carlos is one of the most innovative figures in the world of synthesizers and electronic music. After studying physics and music at Brown ...

Cuesta admitir que la historia de la música electrónica tenga imágenes femeninas y trans en sus cimientos fundacionales, cuando la narrativa oficial y las epistemologías audiotécnicas están ...

When Wendy Carlos—then, before an operation, known as Walter Carlos—released Switched-On Bach, a 1968 recording of the composer's music arranged for the Moog synthesizer, it expressed a side of Bach's ...

Few recordings change the way the world listens to music, but “Switched-On Bach” must be counted among them. When the album was released in late 1968, it quickly became the bestselling classical ...

Wendy Carlos: A Biography, by Amanda Sewell. Oxford University Press. 264 pages. $34.95. Electronic music existed in the United States before the majority of Americans had access to electricity. The ...