Wendy Carlos

7/21/2019 Wendy Carlos

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WENDY CARLOS

Switched-On Bach


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Wendy Carlos

was born asWalter Carloson November!" #$#" inthe city

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,rom a very early ae" Carlos bean .ianolessons at home and develo.ed a.artic&lar interest /or classical m&sic)

At 0 years old" Carlos attended Brown1niversity where she earned a do&ble

bachelor in m&sic and .hysics" and then

achieved a 2asters in 2&sic /rom Col&mbia1niversity)

While st&dyin in New Yor'" she st&died

with .ro/essor 3ladimir 1ssachevs'y" who

had been develo.in theories and severalelectronic devices /or m&sical .rod&ction)


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A/ter rad&ation Carlos wor'ed as arecordin enineer and met Robert2oo at the A&dio Enineerin Societycon/erence in #4!)

2oo was wor'in on the early staeso/ his 5rst synthesi6er when hedecided to introd&ce the instr&ment toCarlos)

Carlos was so im.ressed by 2oo*sachievements that she decided to.&rchase one o/ his models ando7ered to hel. him .er/ect the desino/ the instr&ment)


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By #4!" 2oo*s synthesi6er desin hadseveral constr&ction de/ects that made

m&sical .er/ormance almost im.ossible?

No touch sensibility

Not .oly.honic

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Switched-On Bachwas one o/ the

5rst classical alb&ms to sell " co.ies)

Enterin the to. ! o/ the Billboard .o. charton 2arch " #4#" it climbed H&ic'ly to the 9o. I itstayed in the 9o. ! /or ; wee's" and in the 9o. /or more than a year)

(n the #4# 8rammy Awards" the alb&m too' three.ri6es? Best Classical Alb&m" Best Classical%er/ormance J (nstr&mental Soloist or Soloists =withor witho&t orchestra> and Best Enineered ClassicalRecordin)

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