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Wendy Carlos

Index Wendy Carlos

Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos, November 14, 1939) is an American musician and composer best known for her electronic music and film scores. [1]

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  1. 164 relations: "Weird Al" Yankovic, A Clockwork Orange (film), A Clockwork Orange (soundtrack), A Clockwork Orange: Wendy Carlos's Complete Original Score, Alex North, Alpha scale, Ambient music, ARP Instruments, Arthur Bell (journalist), Audio Engineering Society, Avant-garde, Bali, Beauty in the Beast, Beta scale, Billboard 200, Brand New World, Brandenburg Concertos, Brown University, Brownstone, Buchla Electronic Musical Instruments, Camille Saint-Saëns, CBC Radio, CBS Records International, Chicago Tribune, Classical music, Click track, Columbia Masterworks Records, Columbia Records, Columbia University, Computer Music Center, David Geffen Hall, Digital audio workstation, Digital Moonscapes, Digital synthesizer, Dolby, Dolby Pro Logic, Double album, East Side Digital Records, Edward Elgar, Eleanor Rigby, Electone, Electronic music, EMS VCS 3, Ettore Stratta, Experimental music, Faraday cage, Feminizing hormone therapy, Field recording, France, Gamma scale, ... Expand index (114 more) »

  2. American women film score composers
  3. Classical musicians from Rhode Island
  4. Electronic composers
  5. LGBT film score composers
  6. LGBT people from Rhode Island
  7. Telarc Records artists
  8. Transgender composers
  9. Women instrument makers

"Weird Al" Yankovic

Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic (born October 23, 1959) is an American comedy musician, writer, and actor.

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A Clockwork Orange (film)

A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 dystopian crime film adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name.

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A Clockwork Orange (soundtrack)

Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange is a soundtrack album released in 1972 by Warner Bros. Records, featuring music from Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film A Clockwork Orange.

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A Clockwork Orange: Wendy Carlos's Complete Original Score

Walter Carlos' Clockwork Orange is a studio album by American musician and composer Wendy Carlos, released under her birth name Walter, in 1972 by Columbia Records.

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Alex North

Alex North (born Isadore Soifer, December 4, 1910 – September 8, 1991) was an American composer best known for his many film scores, including A Streetcar Named Desire (one of the first jazz-based film scores), Viva Zapata!, Spartacus, Cleopatra, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? He received fifteen Academy Award nominations for his work as a composer; while he did not win for any of his nominations, he received an Honorary Academy Award in 1986, the first for a composer. Wendy Carlos and Alex North are American film score composers.

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Alpha scale

The (alpha) scale is a non-octave-repeating musical scale invented by Wendy Carlos and first used on her album Beauty in the Beast (1986).

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Ambient music

Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm.

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ARP Instruments

ARP Instruments, Inc. was a Lexington, Massachusetts manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, founded by Alan Robert Pearlman in 1969.

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Arthur Bell (journalist)

Arthur Bell (November 6, 1939 – June 2, 1984) was an American journalist, author and LGBT rights activist.

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Audio Engineering Society

The Audio Engineering Society (AES) is a professional body for engineers, scientists, other individuals with an interest or involvement in the professional audio industry.

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Avant-garde

In the arts and in literature, the term avant-garde (from French meaning advance guard and vanguard) identifies an experimental genre, or work of art, and the artist who created it; which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time.

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Bali

Bali (English:; ᬩᬮᬶ) is a province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands.

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Beauty in the Beast

Beauty in the Beast is a studio album from the American keyboardist and composer Wendy Carlos, released in 1986, on Audion Records, her first for a label other than Columbia Records since 1968.

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Beta scale

The β (beta) scale is a non-octave-repeating musical scale invented by Wendy Carlos and first used on her album Beauty in the Beast (1986).

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Brand New World

Brand New World, also called Woundings, a UK film based on Jeff Noon's play Woundings and released in 1998.

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Brandenburg Concertos

The Brandenburg Concertos (BWV 1046–1051) by Johann Sebastian Bach are a collection of six instrumental works presented by Bach to Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, in 1721 (though probably composed earlier).

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Brown University

Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Brownstone

Brownstone is a brown Triassic–Jurassic sandstone that was historically a popular building material.

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Buchla Electronic Musical Instruments

Buchla Electronic Musical Instruments (BEMI) was a manufacturer of synthesizers and unique MIDI controllers.

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Camille Saint-Saëns

Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (9 October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era.

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CBC Radio

CBC Radio is the English-language radio operations of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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CBS Records International

CBS Records International was the international arm of the Columbia Records unit of Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.

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Classical music

Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.

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Click track

A click track is a series of audio cues used to synchronize sound recordings, sometimes for synchronization to a moving image.

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Columbia Masterworks Records

Columbia Masterworks was a record label started in 1924 by Columbia Records.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the American division of multinational conglomerate Sony.

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Columbia University

Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.

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Computer Music Center

The Computer Music Center (CMC) at Columbia University is the oldest center for electronic and computer music research in the United States.

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David Geffen Hall

David Geffen Hall is a concert hall in New York City's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts complex on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

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Digital audio workstation

A digital audio workstation (DAW) is an electronic device or application software used for recording, editing and producing audio files.

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Digital Moonscapes

Digital Moonscapes (1984) is an album by Wendy Carlos.

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Digital synthesizer

A digital synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses digital signal processing (DSP) techniques to make musical sounds.

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Dolby

Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (often shortened to Dolby Labs and known simply as Dolby) is a British-American technology corporation specializing in audio noise reduction, audio encoding/compression, spatial audio, and HDR imaging.

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Dolby Pro Logic

Dolby Pro Logic is a surround sound processing technology developed by Dolby Laboratories, designed to decode soundtracks encoded with Dolby Surround.

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Double album

A double album (or double record) is an audio album that spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold, typically either records or compact disc.

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East Side Digital Records

East Side Digital is a record label and distributor based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Edward Elgar

Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire.

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Eleanor Rigby

"Eleanor Rigby" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1966 album Revolver.

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Electone

Electone is the trademark used for electronic organs produced by Yamaha.

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Electronic music

Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation.

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EMS VCS 3

The VCS 3 (or VCS3; an initialism for Voltage Controlled Studio, version #3) is a portable analog synthesizer with a flexible modular voice architecture introduced by Electronic Music Studios (EMS) in 1969.

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Ettore Stratta

Ettore Stratta (1933–2015) was an Italian-American musician, composer, conductor, producer and music industry executive.

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Experimental music

Experimental music is a general label for any music or music genre that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions.

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Faraday cage

A Faraday cage or Faraday shield is an enclosure used to block some electromagnetic fields.

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Feminizing hormone therapy

Feminizing hormone therapy, also known as transfeminine hormone therapy, is hormone therapy and sex reassignment therapy to change the secondary sex characteristics of transgender people from masculine or androgynous to feminine.

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Field recording

Field recording is the term used for an audio recording produced outside a recording studio, and the term applies to recordings of both natural and human-produced sounds.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Gamma scale

The γ (gamma) scale is a non-octave repeating musical scale invented by Wendy Carlos while preparing Beauty in the Beast (1986) though it does not appear on the album.

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Gender dysphoria

Gender dysphoria (GD) is the distress a person experiences due to a mismatch between their gender identitytheir personal sense of their own genderand their sex assigned at birth.

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Gender-affirming surgery

Gender-affirming surgery is a surgical procedure, or series of procedures, that alters a person's physical appearance and sexual characteristics to resemble those associated with their identified gender.

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Gender-affirming surgery (male-to-female)

Gender-affirming surgery for male-to-female transgender women or transfeminine non-binary people describes a variety of surgical procedures that alter the body to provide physical traits more comfortable and affirming to an individual's gender identity and overall functioning.

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Gioachino Rossini

Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces and some sacred music.

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Glenn Gould

Glenn Herbert Gould (né Gold; 25 September 19324 October 1982) was a Canadian classical pianist.

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Goddard Lieberson

Goddard Lieberson (April 5, 1911 – May 29, 1977) was the president of Columbia Records from 1956 to 1971, and again from 1973 to 1975.

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Grammy Award for Best Children's Music Album

The Grammy Award for Best Children's Album (from 2020: Grammy Award for Best Children's Music Album) is an honor presented since 2012 at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.

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Grammy Award for Best Classical Album

The Grammy Award for Best Classical Album was awarded from 1962 to 2011.

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Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with or without orchestra)

The Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with or without orchestra) was awarded from 1967 to 1971 and in 1987.

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Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical

The Grammy Award for Best Engineered Recording, Classical has been awarded since 1959.

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Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.

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Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village, or simply the Village, is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, and the Hudson River to the west.

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Harmonic scale

The harmonic scale is a "super-just" musical scale allowing extended just intonation, beyond 5-limit to the 19th harmonic, and free modulation through the use of synthesizers.

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Harry Benjamin

Harry Benjamin (January 12, 1885 – August 24, 1986) was a German-American endocrinologist and sexologist, widely known for his clinical work with transgender people.

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Hector Berlioz

Louis-Hector Berlioz (11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer and conductor.

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Henry Purcell

Henry Purcell (rare:; September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer of Baroque music.

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HighBeam Research

HighBeam Research was a paid search engine and full text online archive owned by Gale, a subsidiary of Cengage, for thousands of newspapers, magazines, academic journals, newswires, trade magazines, and encyclopedias in English.

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Inventions and Sinfonias

The Inventions and Sinfonias, BWV 772–801, also known as the Two- and Three-Part Inventions, are a collection of thirty short keyboard compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750): 15 inventions, which are two-part contrapuntal pieces, and 15 sinfonias, which are three-part contrapuntal pieces.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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Jeff Noon

Jeff Noon (born 1957 in Droylsden, Lancashire, England) is a British novelist, short story writer and playwright whose works make use of word play and fantasy.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period.

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John Sturges

John Eliot Sturges (January 3, 1910 – August 18, 1992) was an American film director.

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Just intonation

In music, just intonation or pure intonation is the tuning of musical intervals as whole number ratios (such as 3:2 or 4:3) of frequencies.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers that are pressed by the fingers.

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Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein (born Louis Bernstein; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Wendy Carlos and Leonard Bernstein are American LGBT composers, American film score composers, LGBT classical composers and LGBT film score composers.

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Limelight Records

Limelight Records was a jazz record label and subsidiary of Mercury Records started in 1962.

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List of ambient music artists

This is a list of ambient music artists.

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London Philharmonic Orchestra

The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) is one of five permanent symphony orchestras based in London.

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Lucy Kroll

Lucy Kroll (3 July 1909 – 14 March 1997) was an American theatrical and literary agent.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Marooned (1969 film)

Marooned is a 1969 American science fiction film directed by John Sturges and starring Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus and Gene Hackman about three astronauts who are trapped and slowly suffocating in space.

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Master's degree

A master's degree (from Latin) is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

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Mastering (audio)

Mastering, a form of audio post production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device (the master), the source from which all copies will be produced (via methods such as pressing, duplication or replication).

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Microtone (music)

Microtonal or microtonality is the use in music of microtones—intervals smaller than a semitone, also called "microintervals".

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MIDI

MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communication protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related audio devices for playing, editing, and recording music.

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Minimoog

The Minimoog is an analog synthesizer first manufactured by Moog Music between 1970 and 1981.

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Momus (musician)

Nicholas John Currie (born 11 February 1960), more popularly known under the artist name Momus (after the Greek god of mockery), is a Scottish musician and writer.

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Monophony

In music, monophony is the simplest of musical textures, consisting of a melody (or "tune"), typically sung by a single singer or played by a single instrument player (e.g., a flute player) without accompanying harmony or chords.

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Moog synthesizer

The Moog synthesizer is a modular synthesizer invented by the American engineer Robert Moog in 1964.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New-age music

New-age is a genre of music intended to create artistic inspiration, relaxation, and optimism.

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Newsweek

Newsweek is a weekly news magazine.

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Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach

The title Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach (Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach) refers to either of two manuscript notebooks that the German Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach presented to his second wife, Anna Magdalena.

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Octave

In music, an octave (octavus: eighth) or perfect octave (sometimes called the '''diapason''') is a series of eight notes occupying the interval between (and including) two notes, one having twice the frequency of vibration of the other.

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Ogden Nash

Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote more than 500 pieces.

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Orchestral suites (Bach)

The four orchestral suites BWV 1066–1069 (called ouvertures by their composer) are four suites by Johann Sebastian Bach from the years 1724–1731.

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Otto Luening

Otto Clarence Luening (June 15, 1900 – September 2, 1996) was a German-American composer and conductor. Wendy Carlos and Otto Luening are American electronic musicians.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Pawtucket is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island.

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Peter & the Wolf ("Weird Al" Yankovic and Wendy Carlos album)

Peter & the Wolf/Carnival of the Animals – Part II is a studio album by American parody singer-songwriter and musician "Weird Al" Yankovic and composer and keyboardist Wendy Carlos, released in October 1988 on CBS Records.

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Peter and the Wolf

Peter and the Wolf (p) Op.

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Phillip Ramey

Phillip Ramey (born September 12, 1939) is an American composer, pianist, and writer on music. Wendy Carlos and Phillip Ramey are Columbia University School of the Arts alumni.

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Playboy

Playboy (stylized in all caps) is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine, formerly in print and currently online.

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Polyphony

Polyphony is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice (monophony) or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords (homophony).

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Pomp and Circumstance Marches

The Pomp and Circumstance Marches (full title Pomp and Circumstance Military Marches), Op. 39, are a series of five (or six) marches for orchestra composed by Sir Edward Elgar.

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Portamento

In music, portamento (plural: portamenti, from old portamento, meaning "carriage" or "carrying") is a pitch sliding from one note to another.

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Pro Tools

Pro Tools is a digital audio workstation (DAW) developed and released by Avid Technology (formerly Digidesign) for Microsoft Windows and macOS.

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer during the Romantic period. Wendy Carlos and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky are LGBT classical composers and LGBT classical musicians.

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Rachel Elkind-Tourre

Rachel Elkind-Tourre (born February 23, 1939) is an American classical musician, record producer and composer. Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind-Tourre are American classical musicians and American film score composers.

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Record producer

A record producer or music producer is a music creating project's overall supervisor whose responsibilities can involve a range of creative and technical leadership roles.

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Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the music recording industry in the United States.

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The Regeneron Science Talent Search, known for its first 57 years as the Westinghouse Science Talent Search, and then as the Intel Science Talent Search (Intel STS) from 1998 through 2016, is a research-based science competition in the United States for high school seniors.

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Rhode Island

Rhode Island (pronounced "road") is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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RIAA certification

In the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) operates an awards program based on the certified number of albums and singles sold through retail and other ancillary markets.

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Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas").

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Robert Moog

Robert Arthur Moog (May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005) was an American engineer and electronic music pioneer.

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Roberta Hanley

Roberta Hanley is a screenwriter and director, she directed the 1998 movie Brand New World, for which she was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature Film at the 2001 New York International Independent Film & Video Festival.

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Royal Albert Hall Organ

The Grand Organ (described by its builder as The Voice of Jupiter) situated in the Royal Albert Hall in London is the second largest pipe organ in the United Kingdom, after the Liverpool Cathedral Grand Organ.

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Season

A season is a division of the year based on changes in weather, ecology, and the number of daylight hours in a given region.

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Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (– 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who later worked in the Soviet Union.

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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Sgt.

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Sky & Telescope

Sky & Telescope (S&T) is a monthly American magazine covering all aspects of amateur astronomy, including the following.

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Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States

The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) is a nonprofit US-based organization founded in 1984 that aims to promote the performance, creation, and research of electro-acoustic music in the United States.

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Solar eclipse

A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of Earth, totally or partially.

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Sonic Seasonings

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.

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Sony Music

Sony Music Entertainment (SME), commonly known as Sony Music, is an American multinational music company owned by Sony Entertainment and managed by the American umbrella division of multinational conglomerate Sony Group Corporation.

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Soundscape

A soundscape is the acoustic environment as perceived by humans, in context.

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St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

The St.

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St. Raphael Academy

Saint Raphael Academy (known colloquially as Saint Ray's, or simply, Saints) is a Roman Catholic, coeducational, college preparatory school in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA.

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Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and photographer.

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Steinway & Sons

Steinway & Sons, also known as Steinway, is a German-American piano company, founded in 1853 in New York City by German piano builder Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg (later known as Henry E. Steinway).

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Switched-On Bach

Switched-On Bach is the debut album by the American composer Wendy Carlos, released in October 1968 by Columbia Records.

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Switched-On Bach II

Switched-On Bach II is a musical album by Wendy Carlos in 1973 on Columbia Records and produced by Carlos and Rachel Elkind and is a sequel to the 1968 album Switched-On Bach.

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Switched-On Brandenburgs

Switched-On Brandenburgs is a 1980 double album by Wendy Carlos.

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Symphonie fantastique

(Fantastic Symphony: Episode in the Life of an Artist … in Five Sections) Op. 14, is a programmatic symphony written by Hector Berlioz in 1830.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (also synthesiser, or simply synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals.

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Telarc International Corporation

Telarc International Corporation is an American audiophile independent record label founded in 1977 by two classically trained musicians and former teachers, Jack Renner and Robert Woods.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

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The Beaver County Times

The Beaver County Times is a daily newspaper published in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, United States, serving suburban Beaver County northwest of Pittsburgh.

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The Carnival of the Animals

The Carnival of the Animals (Le Carnaval des animaux) is a humorous musical suite of 14 movements, including "The Swan", by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns.

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The Dick Cavett Show

The Dick Cavett Show is the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks, including.

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The Little Red Songbook

The Little Red Songbook is the twelfth studio album by Scottish musician Momus, released by Le Grand Magistery in 1998.

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The Recording Academy

The Recording Academy (formally the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences; abbreviated NARAS) is an American learned academy of musicians, producers, recording engineers, and other musical professionals.

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The Shining (film)

The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick and co-written with novelist Diane Johnson.

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The Shining (novel)

The Shining is a 1977 horror novel by American author Stephen King.

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate that is headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California.

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The Well-Tempered Synthesizer

The Well-Tempered Synthesizer is the second studio album from the American musician and composer Wendy Carlos, originally released under her birth name Walter Carlos, in November 1969 on Columbia Masterworks Records.

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Tom Jones (singer)

Sir Thomas Jones Woodward (born 7 June 1940), known professionally as Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer.

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Transgender

A transgender person (often shortened to trans person) is someone whose gender identity differs from that typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth.

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Tron

Tron (stylized as TRON) is a 1982 American science fiction action adventure film written and directed by Steven Lisberger from a story by Lisberger and Bonnie MacBird.

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Tron (soundtrack)

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.

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UNICEF

UNICEF, originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, officially United Nations Children's Fund since 1953, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide.

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United Press International

United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century until its eventual decline beginning in the early 1980s.

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Vladimir Ussachevsky

Vladimir Alexeevich Ussachevsky (November 3, 1911 in Hailar, China – January 2, 1990 in New York, New York) was a composer, particularly known for his work in electronic music.

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Vocoder

A vocoder (a portmanteau of voice and encoder) is a category of speech coding that analyzes and synthesizes the human voice signal for audio data compression, multiplexing, voice encryption or voice transformation.

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Warner Records

Warner Records Inc. (formerly known as Warner Bros. Records Inc. until 2019) is an American record label.

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West Side (Manhattan)

The West Side of Manhattan refers to the side of Manhattan Island that abuts the Hudson River and faces the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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What's New Pussycat? (song)

"What's New Pussycat?" is the theme song for the eponymous movie, written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, and sung by Welsh singer Tom Jones.

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White noise

In signal processing, white noise is a random signal having equal intensity at different frequencies, giving it a constant power spectral density.

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Whole Earth Catalog

The Whole Earth Catalog (WEC) was an American counterculture magazine and product catalog published by Stewart Brand several times a year between 1968 and 1972, and occasionally thereafter, until 1998.

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Yamaha Corporation

is a Japanese musical instrument and audio equipment manufacturer.

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12th Annual Grammy Awards

The 12th Annual Grammy Awards were held on March 11, 1970.

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See also

American women film score composers

Classical musicians from Rhode Island

Electronic composers

LGBT film score composers

LGBT people from Rhode Island

Telarc Records artists

Transgender composers

Women instrument makers

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Carlos

Also known as Rediscovering Lost Scores, Secrets of Synthesis, Tales of Heaven and Hell, W Carlos, Walter Carlos, Walter Wendy Carlos, Wendy (then Walter) Carlos.

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