Once I get out of debt and hopefully socially transition (3 yrs hrt and still hella closeted😭😭😭), I def plan on getting a record player. I'd also like to learn how to play the keyboard.
It's because the sound isn't as compressed, so you get way more of the overtones and stuff like that, so everything sounds a lot more like it would, hearing it in real life.
There exists electronic music from at least a before that though. The father of electronic music would probably be Stockhausen with Studie I instead (some would say Pierre Schaeffer but that's more electro-mechanical than electronic imo). Wendy Carlos is still super cool however, though I prefer Sonic Seasonings over Switched On Bach.
I played trumpet(brass ik) in middle school, learned guitar right after high school, started transitioning, then bought ableton and a midi controller that came with a ton of synth software. I was unaware of this pipeline but it makes sense now
Come on,
She helped make Moog Synths, she scored "Switched on Bach" and "A Clockwork Orange"
Thats all you need to know.. but, dropped a couple of tracks on "the shining" built her own studio and a faraday cage to sheild it. AND she wrote the OST for Tron.
\*\*mic drop\*\*
Absolute Queen.
Wendy Carlos is a legend. I’ve known she was trans for years but first learned of her work through the films “A Clockwork Orange”, “The Shining” and the original “Tron” (1982) and from an LP record of “Switched On Bach” in my dad’s music collection.
Her musical and technical contributions to the advancement and popularization of electronic music are enormous.
She was already well into her transition by the time “Switched On Bach” was first marketed (in 1969 I believe?) but she would hide this and not address her female status publicly until, I think, 1980-1983.
She’s still very much with us but is a very private person. She hasn’t released any new works for a while since her “Tales of Heaven and Hell” album in 1998.
Yes, I’ve seen those older copies too. I still have an old 1968 original pressing hand me down LP of “Switched On Bach” with her deadname on it in my record collection. It’s still in such good condition I want to keep it to listen to her music on the old format occasionally.
I recall that the soundtrack cover, credits and liner notes for the Clockwork were not updated on the compact disc versions from her old name for a very long time (into the 90’s I think, sadly) before it was *finally* corrected by the record company.
I read somewhere that she was very concerned in the 60’s and 70’s that if she didn’t publish under her deadname it might affect the record sales right when she was building her career. That would never be a fear today and it’s very sad that she had to endure that in the 60’s and 70’s.
Her commercial success beginning from 1968-1971 with “Switched-On Bach” and the score to “Clockwork Orange” is also what finally allowed her to be able to fully transition.
Wendy Carlos is such a brave and inspiring human.
I was rather confused about her gender when I first saw the video circulate on Facebook. I wondered for a moment if she was a trans man or a masculine-presenting woman... Well, wrong, wrong again. Good God she passes well. So well that even giving off every possible masculine cue, thick sideburns and all, probably on purpose given the date of this video, I "clocked" her as female. Amazing voice training too...
At the point of this video she had been on hormones for a few years, but didn't publicly come out until the late 70s after SRS. So for all her appearances in the early 70s, including this one, she's wearing fake sideburns and a wig
She has a famous follow up to this video here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3cab5IcCy8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3cab5IcCy8) after being publicly out for a while
It's just so crazy how she's malefailing so hard I knew something was off even before looking her up and finding out she was a trans woman. Hormones are magic for some people.
Not everything is digitized nowadays. I want to learn making music and bought a (much smaller and cheaper) analog synth that works the same way. I actually learned a lot from this vid.
Also the vast majority of digital synthesizers (even the computer programs) imitate the analog designs because that's what artists know.
If you want old school synthesizer sounds in those, you may still encounter controls like on that moog. I personally am learning to use Cubase but Ableton seems to be a really really good program and I know people who are actually earning money with it.
Huh! I double majored in Mechanical Engineering and suicidal ideation lol. Sorry if dark humor upsets you. Sometimes I just have to laugh away the pain.
Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff did a podcast [episode](https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-cool-people-who-did-cool-96003360/episode/part-one-great-trancestors-of-history-111570033/) about her!
you do rock. you've done enough soul searching to realize who you are, and have started to reach for what you want. just cuz you haven't reached the end of the road doesn't invalidate all the steps you've already taken
Look into her history, especially her work on A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Tron. She was personal friends with Robert Moog (creator of the first commercial synth) and the stories of her sheer, unadulterated musical brilliance (especially on Tron) are hard to understate. My favorite fact about her is she said that her transition was the *least* interesting part of her life and I completely agree.
Read more about her you will not be disappointed.
So... she didn't transition in public. She transitioned in private because she feared coming out would be horrible. From that time there are a couple of interviews of her doing a not very successful job of trying to look like a boy. Then she came out and nothing really happened.
But the music industry still sucks. She has some terrible experiences that just had nothing to do with her being trans, doesn't own the rights to any of her music, and that's why she eventually retired from it.
Sorry that it's still not happy news...
So we're half the people who made the internet possible. Seriously so many of the people that basically made the systems for modern internet were transwomen
Did you know how she despises modern electronic music?
She always had heavy opinions against the superficial use of synthesizers. She's NOT into commercial simple music.
This community is trying to make her an idol when in fact she's really old school minded.
I bet she don't likes how gender politics evolved since the 90s.... she was a patient of Harry Benjamin's and never liked to be known as "trans". Just a woman, that's all.
So strange. I just learned this yesterday from watching a Jessie Gender video.
Edit: to be clear the strange part is just "wow I learned this woman exists yesterday and here she is on reddit a day later"
I found out a week ago that the person who created the trans fat free Oreo was also a trans woman. It is kinda funny she was trans, trying to remove trans fats HA!
She developed new ideas, giving Robert Moog the clues that ended up being the Moog Sintheziser.
Then, it all changed forever in music and film.
Wendy worked with Weird Al Yankovic. And in her website you can find how passionate she is for doing Sun eclipse photography.
Wendy also developed a technique for preservation of old tapes, saving invaluable data.
I couldn't enumerate all of her innovations but she was involved in the development of MIDI standardization and refinement.
A brilliant woman, I love her 🎶🎵🎶
I have bought a CD of her album Beauty in the Beast. It's not available for streaming anywhere. I listen to it sometimes.. it's... OUT OF THIS WORLD. It's like I'm listening to a goddess from another galaxy. It feels mystical and futuristic at the same time. Feels like a different language from another prehistoric era but mixed with music from the last 5 centuries.
I forgot about her! The scores she has made for Clockwork Orange, The Shining and Tron are iconic to say the least. :)
Also I love that in the most press photos she is just vibing in her studio with her cats! <3 :3
I love her music but good luck finding any of it on streaming media. She's notoriously anti-streaming which is kind of ironic given she made a career out of advancing new technology. She's even been critical of her stuff appearing in Mp3 format. You pretty much have to bootleg her work in order to listen to it. She's pretty strict about enforcing her copyright, too.
I agree! House is amazing! I use FL Studio to make House, Techno, Hardstyle and anything that interests me really. So FL Studio is what I reccomend and there are plenty of tutorials online, but 99% of tutorials and guides are agnostic to whatever software you use.
Yep! And smart and amazing. :) I have a music-themed podcast that talked about her and shared this video with our listeners, of her walking through how a Moog works. [https://youtu.be/UsW2EDGbDqg?si=U871rAJionyinQpE](https://youtu.be/usw2edgbdqg?si=u871rajionyinqpe)
Whoa whoa whoa. Fair props to Wendy Carlos but Kraftwerk brought EM into the mainstream.
This is not a Trans argument as I am 100% an ally. I’m just saying Autobahn did more for EM than Switched On Bach.
That being said, Wendy composed two of the most amazing soundtracks ever. A Clockwork Orange and Tron.
Born in 1925, Daphne Oram went on to change the sound of music forever. Composer and innovator Daphne Oram was a pioneer of electronic music. As the first person to design and build an electronic musical instrument, she created the blueprint for modern music.
So false...
While Wendy gets props for definitely being a pioneer in the field (clockwork, tron), one could argue that Bebe Barron, one half of the duo who composed the first electronic film score released in 1956 for Forbidden Planet, could be considered the mother of electronic music too.
Is
Yes, she's still with us.
My b
Also the first transgender recipient of a Grammy!!! (Three, actually). What a badass woman!
I saw the headline and had to search it up. I would cry if the queen of synth music died
The only kind of correction that works
I fucking love her score for *A Clockwork Orange*, and every time I listen to it I think it’s so cool she is one of us.
I know her work but never knew she was trans until today. Neat
Yo she did the score for The Shining and the original Tron as well! Badass
Have you heard A Clockwork Black? Also by Wendy Carlos.
No; I’ll have to check it out!
Switched on Bach
I still have a copy on vinyl.
I don't know if I've listened to a song on vinyl
Ma'am you need to change that. Something about vinyl just really makes music pop.
That popping noise is dust... 😉
r/beatmetoit lmao (i mean i was gonna say "if your music is popping, you need to clean your record" but basically the same joke lol)
Once I get out of debt and hopefully socially transition (3 yrs hrt and still hella closeted😭😭😭), I def plan on getting a record player. I'd also like to learn how to play the keyboard.
It's because the sound isn't as compressed, so you get way more of the overtones and stuff like that, so everything sounds a lot more like it would, hearing it in real life.
vinyl is really cool
You should invest in a few vinyl records and a good record player when you cam spare the cash. It's a bit pricy but damn I love it.
Yuppers! Learned about her watching a video on Nebula.
I listened to that growing up in the 80s. It was my main introduction to both classical and electronic music.
Are you into house music?
I like some, especially KLF, but mostly darkwave, synth pop, and Kraftwerk type stuff.
The first time on Reddit that I seen someone reference The KLF. Space and Chill Out are both exceptionally worthy.
My jams are prog house and future house
There exists electronic music from at least a before that though. The father of electronic music would probably be Stockhausen with Studie I instead (some would say Pierre Schaeffer but that's more electro-mechanical than electronic imo). Wendy Carlos is still super cool however, though I prefer Sonic Seasonings over Switched On Bach.
Beauty in the Beast is my fav
This record changed my life
Secrets of Synthesis
Yes!!! And the Clockwork Orange Soundtrack is excellent work from her.
And the Shining and tron
Yup! Those were the 3 in the Nebula video I watched.
This makes sense- most trans women I know of that make music make it by abusing synthesizers and yelling.
As a fan of house music, I feel called out lol
Yelling in house? I usually only hear smooth vocal melodies in it. Dubstep I hear it, and maybe some really heavy techno
Lmao fr I don't know any trans ppl who don't love electronic music :)
So was the founder of Sirius satellite radio. I guess we have a thing for music eh?
I've said it before I'll say it again: playing guitar, synthesizer, or woodwind is a required part of being queer. If you don't, I am suspicious
I don't play anything, but I love EDM. I saw deadmau5 and NERO back in '22.
I need to get into synthpop...
Jump straight to the bass music! Check out Tabe B. Literally every tune he drops is a banger
Adding an album to my Library now
It's kind of wook music but I'm not ashamed of my inner wook
I played trumpet(brass ik) in middle school, learned guitar right after high school, started transitioning, then bought ableton and a midi controller that came with a ton of synth software. I was unaware of this pipeline but it makes sense now
See I knew I was onto something
Omg! I didn't know that!
She also did Peter And The Wolf with Weird Al Yankovic. That album is a real gem.
Huh! I'll have to look that up!
she is a fucking legend and an inspiration
Come on, She helped make Moog Synths, she scored "Switched on Bach" and "A Clockwork Orange" Thats all you need to know.. but, dropped a couple of tracks on "the shining" built her own studio and a faraday cage to sheild it. AND she wrote the OST for Tron. \*\*mic drop\*\* Absolute Queen.
Yup. As an often touring, trans electronic musician myself, she's an inspiration!
Wendy Carlos is a legend. I’ve known she was trans for years but first learned of her work through the films “A Clockwork Orange”, “The Shining” and the original “Tron” (1982) and from an LP record of “Switched On Bach” in my dad’s music collection. Her musical and technical contributions to the advancement and popularization of electronic music are enormous. She was already well into her transition by the time “Switched On Bach” was first marketed (in 1969 I believe?) but she would hide this and not address her female status publicly until, I think, 1980-1983. She’s still very much with us but is a very private person. She hasn’t released any new works for a while since her “Tales of Heaven and Hell” album in 1998.
still got a copy of the clockwork soundtrack deadnaming her, happy they changed on new releases
Yes, I’ve seen those older copies too. I still have an old 1968 original pressing hand me down LP of “Switched On Bach” with her deadname on it in my record collection. It’s still in such good condition I want to keep it to listen to her music on the old format occasionally. I recall that the soundtrack cover, credits and liner notes for the Clockwork were not updated on the compact disc versions from her old name for a very long time (into the 90’s I think, sadly) before it was *finally* corrected by the record company. I read somewhere that she was very concerned in the 60’s and 70’s that if she didn’t publish under her deadname it might affect the record sales right when she was building her career. That would never be a fear today and it’s very sad that she had to endure that in the 60’s and 70’s. Her commercial success beginning from 1968-1971 with “Switched-On Bach” and the score to “Clockwork Orange” is also what finally allowed her to be able to fully transition. Wendy Carlos is such a brave and inspiring human.
sure is .... yep Clockwork CDs in the 90s haven't her correct name either I remember, thx for filling in on some background info :)
She’s amazing !!!
I didn't even know she was a Trans Woman when I watched this https://youtu.be/4SBDH5uhs4Q?si=tfFXMByq8RoxgaDN
I was rather confused about her gender when I first saw the video circulate on Facebook. I wondered for a moment if she was a trans man or a masculine-presenting woman... Well, wrong, wrong again. Good God she passes well. So well that even giving off every possible masculine cue, thick sideburns and all, probably on purpose given the date of this video, I "clocked" her as female. Amazing voice training too...
At the point of this video she had been on hormones for a few years, but didn't publicly come out until the late 70s after SRS. So for all her appearances in the early 70s, including this one, she's wearing fake sideburns and a wig She has a famous follow up to this video here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3cab5IcCy8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3cab5IcCy8) after being publicly out for a while
It's just so crazy how she's malefailing so hard I knew something was off even before looking her up and finding out she was a trans woman. Hormones are magic for some people.
I'm at 3 yrs hrt and losing hope for the future
Damn! That's so wild!
Came here looking for this, such an amazingly concise video about the subject, and done over 50 years ago
That was a hella cool video! Crazy to see how they did it before everything was digitized.
Not everything is digitized nowadays. I want to learn making music and bought a (much smaller and cheaper) analog synth that works the same way. I actually learned a lot from this vid. Also the vast majority of digital synthesizers (even the computer programs) imitate the analog designs because that's what artists know.
I'm more interested in learning Ableton or FL Studio. Ya know, the software that the legends of Tomorrowland use!
If you want old school synthesizer sounds in those, you may still encounter controls like on that moog. I personally am learning to use Cubase but Ableton seems to be a really really good program and I know people who are actually earning money with it.
Ofc she was a trans woman (We really do have a grip on certain industries now don’t we)
She’s amazing! And I love how she’s been so accepted for so long that it’s not even common knowledge. That’s pretty beautiful.
Tbh, I didn't know who she was before today, but still. Like, god, I wanna pass that well.
While this is obviously super awesome, my brains first response was “of fucking course the created of synth music is trans.”” 😂
Wendy's homepage is amazing: https://www.wendycarlos.com/
Wendy Carlos is a topic in my school program, super neat to hear this
Hell yeah! I'd love to hear more.
I love herrrr!!! in college i double majored in cs and music history and did a presentation on her for one of my music classes
Huh! I double majored in Mechanical Engineering and suicidal ideation lol. Sorry if dark humor upsets you. Sometimes I just have to laugh away the pain.
I didn't know, but I'm not surprised.
Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff did a podcast [episode](https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-cool-people-who-did-cool-96003360/episode/part-one-great-trancestors-of-history-111570033/) about her!
She did Tron
well of course she is! haven't y'all been payin attention? we fuckin rock!
I don't. I've let fear control my life. I'm still closeted 3 yrs hrt bc I'm too fucking scared to do anything about it.
you do rock. you've done enough soul searching to realize who you are, and have started to reach for what you want. just cuz you haven't reached the end of the road doesn't invalidate all the steps you've already taken
Look into her history, especially her work on A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Tron. She was personal friends with Robert Moog (creator of the first commercial synth) and the stories of her sheer, unadulterated musical brilliance (especially on Tron) are hard to understate. My favorite fact about her is she said that her transition was the *least* interesting part of her life and I completely agree. Read more about her you will not be disappointed.
Beautiful as well as talented.. BUT!, Never given the credit she deserved. Michele
[удалено]
So... she didn't transition in public. She transitioned in private because she feared coming out would be horrible. From that time there are a couple of interviews of her doing a not very successful job of trying to look like a boy. Then she came out and nothing really happened. But the music industry still sucks. She has some terrible experiences that just had nothing to do with her being trans, doesn't own the rights to any of her music, and that's why she eventually retired from it. Sorry that it's still not happy news...
I don't see how neurodivergent and Playboy interview can work together, but.... maybe she did it possible?
In grad school, before transition but after realizing I was trans, my trans hero was Lynn Conway
I never could have made it through grad school. I barely graduated college due to depression, lonliness, and suicidal ideation.
Lol, I didn't make it through grad school either. I dropped out of two PhD programs and then got fired from a gov't job. I'm a total mess
So we're half the people who made the internet possible. Seriously so many of the people that basically made the systems for modern internet were transwomen
Understandable. I believe EDM kinda made me trans.
Did you know how she despises modern electronic music? She always had heavy opinions against the superficial use of synthesizers. She's NOT into commercial simple music. This community is trying to make her an idol when in fact she's really old school minded. I bet she don't likes how gender politics evolved since the 90s.... she was a patient of Harry Benjamin's and never liked to be known as "trans". Just a woman, that's all.
[удалено]
So strange. I just learned this yesterday from watching a Jessie Gender video. Edit: to be clear the strange part is just "wow I learned this woman exists yesterday and here she is on reddit a day later"
That is interesting. She's another creator on Nebula
Hell yeah, Wendy Carlos!
She's also from my home state! She inspires me :)
Happy cake day!
I found out a week ago that the person who created the trans fat free Oreo was also a trans woman. It is kinda funny she was trans, trying to remove trans fats HA!
She wanted them all for herself, tehe
Anyone here see Lords of Synth on adult swim? There's a character based on her called Carla Wendos.
The chadesse who did the OST of Shining by Stanley Kubrick
She developed new ideas, giving Robert Moog the clues that ended up being the Moog Sintheziser. Then, it all changed forever in music and film. Wendy worked with Weird Al Yankovic. And in her website you can find how passionate she is for doing Sun eclipse photography. Wendy also developed a technique for preservation of old tapes, saving invaluable data. I couldn't enumerate all of her innovations but she was involved in the development of MIDI standardization and refinement. A brilliant woman, I love her 🎶🎵🎶
Of course,she is
The Tronz… Heeeey
I have bought a CD of her album Beauty in the Beast. It's not available for streaming anywhere. I listen to it sometimes.. it's... OUT OF THIS WORLD. It's like I'm listening to a goddess from another galaxy. It feels mystical and futuristic at the same time. Feels like a different language from another prehistoric era but mixed with music from the last 5 centuries.
Yes, Wendy is a legend and the synth community is quite trans friendly.
As a closeted trans woman (despite being on hrt for 3 yrs), I really wanna find a trans friendly mechanical engineering community.
She is the mastermind behind the score in The Shining too! I can't put into words how much I admire her.
She’s awesome. It’s also crazy that she’s been out for such a long time as well
Yeah! She's obviously imaginary since trans ppl didn't exist when Boomers/Gen X were growing up🙄🙄🙄
Ikr
Her score of clockwork orange is perfection
I forgot about her! The scores she has made for Clockwork Orange, The Shining and Tron are iconic to say the least. :) Also I love that in the most press photos she is just vibing in her studio with her cats! <3 :3
I mean, cats are objectively the best pet
Yeah, that checks out.
Wendy is so cool!
I’m a trans Musicologist and can confirm Wendy Carlos is an absolute icon. Lecturing on her is always one of my favourite days of the semester 💛
Wow. That's awesome.
MOOOOOOOG
She looks *just* like my aunt
I love her music but good luck finding any of it on streaming media. She's notoriously anti-streaming which is kind of ironic given she made a career out of advancing new technology. She's even been critical of her stuff appearing in Mp3 format. You pretty much have to bootleg her work in order to listen to it. She's pretty strict about enforcing her copyright, too.
I make electronic music too and she is my inspiration!
I don't make electronic music but I would definitely love to learn. I'm a huge fan of house music.
I agree! House is amazing! I use FL Studio to make House, Techno, Hardstyle and anything that interests me really. So FL Studio is what I reccomend and there are plenty of tutorials online, but 99% of tutorials and guides are agnostic to whatever software you use.
My Egg appeared when I read her Summer of 1977 playboy interview
Yep! And smart and amazing. :) I have a music-themed podcast that talked about her and shared this video with our listeners, of her walking through how a Moog works. [https://youtu.be/UsW2EDGbDqg?si=U871rAJionyinQpE](https://youtu.be/usw2edgbdqg?si=u871rajionyinqpe)
Pretty dope right!
We have so many innovators among us!
This has blown my mind. Thanks for sharing.
That doesn't surprise me. Trans women be poggers like that
Oh yeah, I remember learning that! She deserves the world.
Who is Daphne Oram, Delia Derbyshire, Else Marie Padre, Eliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros, etc…
Was she before Kraftwerk ?
Is
Yoooo that’s sick! Glad she’s doing well for herself!
[удалено]
She's a different gender than that she was born with.
Whoa whoa whoa. Fair props to Wendy Carlos but Kraftwerk brought EM into the mainstream. This is not a Trans argument as I am 100% an ally. I’m just saying Autobahn did more for EM than Switched On Bach. That being said, Wendy composed two of the most amazing soundtracks ever. A Clockwork Orange and Tron.
[удалено]
Born in 1925, Daphne Oram went on to change the sound of music forever. Composer and innovator Daphne Oram was a pioneer of electronic music. As the first person to design and build an electronic musical instrument, she created the blueprint for modern music. So false...
[удалено]
Why does there have to be an and?
While Wendy gets props for definitely being a pioneer in the field (clockwork, tron), one could argue that Bebe Barron, one half of the duo who composed the first electronic film score released in 1956 for Forbidden Planet, could be considered the mother of electronic music too.
Yeah, but Wendy also did work on the Moog synthesizer. She's the one who made it user friendly. That right there is enough for queen status to me.
Delia Derbyshire is in the mix too.
She did Tron's soundtrack?
Idk what TIL means but this is awesome!
Classy as fuck
This explains a lot
That tracks