Wendy Carlos
Wendy Carlos
Wendy Carlosis an American composer and keyboardist best known for her electronic music and film scores. Born and raised in Rhode Island, Carlos studied physics and music at Brown University before moving to New York City in 1962 to study music composition at Columbia University. Studying and working with various electronic musicians and technicians at the city's Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, she oversaw the development of the Moog synthesizer, then a relatively new and unknown keyboard instrument designed by Robert...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth14 November 1939
CountryUnited States of America
I am aware that my musical style is not necessarily to the taste of all of you. I've got a heightened 'boredom factor' if music gets too redundant.
You repeat things because they're like your personal obsessions
As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
Composition has almost always been solitary.
I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.