Wendy Carlos Interview 1989 BBC Two
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Published 2019-09-03
Wendy appeared on the BBC in 1989 and is best known for the scores to A Clockwork Orange, Tron and The Shining.
All Comments (21)
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Didnt know the Log Lady was into electronic music :O
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True fact: her cats names were “Paws” and “Play”
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She still has a website. It's mostly cat pictures and looks like it was made in 1998. Adorable
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You can tell from the way she speaks, she’s so smart. She dumbs down what’s happening without making you feel dumb.
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The secret to early synth music production was to have two cats on the computer decks. This balanced the sound.
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The cats make me feel like she was so ahead of time that she knew of "cats & synthesizer" memes before the internet was even a thing
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I know a man who used to work with Robert Moog, and when he was younger he went with Bob to Wendy's apartment. According to him, she was "lightyears ahead of everybody else, and on a completely different plane" that he knew at the time.
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Sadly it's too short, but what strikes me is that she succeeds in talking about what's going on in an understandable, non-theoretical level, which is an art by itself.
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Watching and hearing a xylophone sound perfectly recreated from nothing in the span of about 45 seconds has to be one of the trippier experiences I've had lately
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So rare to hear her talk in an interview. Genius who has revolutionized music. Real pioneer in more ways than one. Respect.
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wendy is who i aspire to be: a cat lady who has trouble doing synth stuff because the cats are crawling all over them
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Loving how she first appears on camera with a cat on her shoulder. Holy shot.
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It's kind of strange to think about how modern music would sound like without Wendy. No doubt it would have gone electronic at some point, synthesizers already existed when she got started, but she was really the one to take it from being an experimental art to being on the charts. As an electronic musician, I'd say I owe a lot to Wendy for her contributions to music. Oh, and she has also taken the best picture ever of a solar eclipse. No joke.
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Wendy is an underappreciated musical genius. Her work on Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Tron are amazing!
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"Now she specifies three more pure tones in the proportion she already knows a real xylophone produces"?! No trial-and-error? She just had the harmonic structure of a xylophone on hand as if it was a pizza coupon?!?! She is OP pls nerf 😢
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We (synth music freaks, addicted, makers) are standing on the shoulders of giants. And she is definitely one giant.
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I used to think I understood music. Wendy Carlos, who is my hero, makes me feel like I know very little. Her grasp on musical energy is genius
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I was shook at the xylophone replication, especially at the end
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wendy carlos be like "i'm gonna put a fucking cat on my shoulder"
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Never ceases to astound me how someone can listen to a sound, mentally deconstruct it and tell an eight bit machine how to put it together... and be so right. Just assembling it like that has a level of understanding that I find just incredible.
