# Wendy Carlos [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Carlos) (1939– ) ## Description American composer who brought the Moog synthesizer to a mainstream audience with *Switched-On Bach* (1968), and who worked closely with Robert Moog from 1964 as a confidant and instrument designer, proposing the filter bank and touch-sensitive control that shaped the instrument. She went on to score several films for Stanley Kubrick and Disney using electronic and hybrid orchestral means. She is also widely recognized as one of the first openly transgender musicians to achieve mainstream success. ## Key Tags #sound #synthesizers #sound-synthesis #tool-builder #narrative-cinema #trans ## Essential Works - [Switched-On Bach](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switched-On_Bach) (1968) - Grammy-winning album of Bach performed on the Moog synthesizer, the first electronic album to reach mainstream classical audiences - *A Clockwork Orange* (1971) - synthesized film score for Stanley Kubrick, reworking Purcell and Beethoven alongside original electronic material - *Tron* (1982) - electronic-orchestral hybrid score for Disney, among the earliest scores to pair synthesizer with a full orchestra ## Details %% A more comprehensive personal reflection and collection of relevant notes, details, references, links %% ### Concepts and Theories - [[Music Studies]] - synthesizer-based reinterpretation of the classical repertoire within the history of electronic music ### Creative and Technical Practices - [[Synthesizers]] - collaborator in the design of the Moog synthesizer, proposing its filter bank and touch-sensitive control ### Collaborators %% none yet %% ### Institutional Affiliations and Associated Movements %% none yet %% ## References ### Primary Sources Bibliography %% none yet %% ### Secondary Sources Bibliography Kheshti, Roshanak. *Wendy Carlos's Switched-On Bach*. Bloomsbury, 2018.