TS Rocket Scientist. Really, No Shit

[Prospero]

Gret jazz bass player who is transgendered ... walter carlos (of switched on bach fame) is now Wendy carlos... lots of great people

[natina]

http://www.hungangels.com/vboard/showthread.php?t=56487
http://www.hungangels.com/vboard/showthread.php?t=56487

TS Women's Success:Links and Photos
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conw...Sgallery1.html

http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conw...Sgallery2.html

http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conw...Sgallery3.html

http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conw...Sgallery4.html



Short List of Transgendered Famous People

http://www.changelingaspects.com/Lif...s%20People.htm
http://www.changelingaspects.com/Lif...s%20People.htm
http://www.changelingaspects.com/Lif...s%20People.htm
http://www.changelingaspects.com/Lif...s%20People.htm


this just show that Freddie is not part of this community.

he is not really fully into TS and the community

he is more of a part time fan

its not that he is stupid
it is that he is not around many TS thats why he does not know that much about TS and there accomplishments ect.......

[CORVETTEDUDE]

Thanks, Natina...that's great info!!!

[Prospero]

Very interesting - and these are just the girls who're happy to go public. Tip of the iceberg I think.

[trish]

Is it hot in here?

[muh_muh]

[SkankyTrannyAnna]

and you thought us tranny were only know for having rockets not making them...

[peggygee]

Gret jazz bass player who is transgendered ... walter carlos (of switched on bach fame) is now Wendy carlos... lots of great people

Wendy Carlos - Electronic Music Pioneer







Wendy Carlos


Wendy Carlos - Born November 14, 1939 (1939-11-14) (age 71)

OriginPawtucket, Rhode Island, United StatesGenresElectronic music, Film scores

OccupationsElectronic musician,ComposerInstrumentsSynthesizer

WebsiteWendyCarlos.com

Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos on 14 November 1939) is an American composer and electronic musician. Carlos first came to notice in the late 1960s with recordings made on the Moog synthesizer, then a relatively new and unknown instrument; most notable were LPs of synthesized Bach and the soundtrack for Stanley Kubrick's film A Clockwork Orange. Several years prior, two Carlos compositions using classical (pre-Moog) electronic techniques had been issued on LP (Variations for Flute and Tape and Dialogues for Piano and Two Loudspeakers). Although the first Carlos Moog albums were interpretations of the works of classical composers, she later resumed releasing original compositions.
Contents

• 1 Work
• 2 Personal life
• 3 Awards and honors
• 4 Discography
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Work

Carlos' first release was entitled "Moog 900 Series - Electronic Music Systems" (R. A. Moog Company, Inc., 1967) and it was an introduction to the technical aspects of the machine.[1]
Switched-On Bach (196 was an early album demonstrating the use of the synthesizer as a genuine musical instrument. As an early user of Robert Moog's first commercially available synthesizer modules (Moog assembled these as custom installations that differed greatly from user to user), Walter Carlos helped pioneer the technology, which was significantly more difficult to use than it is today. Multitrack recording techniques played a critical role in the time-consuming process of creating this album. Switched-On Bach was the last project in his four-year-long collaboration with Benjamin Folkman and won gold records for both Carlos and Folkman. The album then became one of the first classical LPs to sell 500,000 copies, and (eventually) to go platinum.

A sequel of additional synthesized baroque music, The Well-Tempered Synthesizer, followed in 1969. (Its title is a play on Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier.) A second sequel, Switched-On Bach II, was released in 1973, continuing the style of the previous two albums, adding a Yamaha Electone organ to the Moog for certain florid passages in Bach's 5th Brandenburg Concerto.

Sonic Seasonings (1972) was packaged as a double album, with one side dedicated to each of the four seasons, and each side consisting of one long track. The album blended recorded sounds with synthesized sounds, occasionally employing melodies, to create an ambient effect. Not as popular as some other Carlos albums, it was influential on other artists who went on to create the ambient genre.

In 1971, Carlos composed and recorded music for A Clockwork Orange. Portions of her work for this film in addition to its classical material re-appeared in her Tales of Heaven and Hell in 2003 in movement 3 A Clockwork Black. She worked with Stanley Kubrick again on the score for The Shining, though in the end Kubrick mostly used pre-existing music cues by other composers.



In 1982, she scored the film Tron for Disney. This score incorporated orchestra, chorus, organ, and both analog and digital synthesizers. Some of her end-title music featuring the Royal Albert Hall Organ was replaced with a song by Journey, and the music that originally was composed for the lightcycle scene was dropped. Digital Moonscapes (1984) switched to digital synthesizers from the analog synthesizers that were the trademark of her earlier albums. Some of the unused material from the Tron soundtrack was incorporated into it.

Beauty in the Beast (1986) saw Carlos experimenting with various tunings, including just intonation, Balinese scales and several scales she invented for the album. One of her scales, the Harmonic Scale, involved setting a "root note", and retuning all of the notes on the keyboard to just intonation intervals from the root note. There are a total of 144 possible notes per octave in this system: 12 notes in a chromatic scale times 12 different keys. Other scales included Carlos' Alpha, Beta & Gamma scales, which experimented with dividing the octave into a non-integral number of equally-spaced intervals.

These explorations in effect supplemented the more systematic microtonal studies of the composer Easley Blackwood, whose etudes on all twelve equal-tempered scales between 13 and 24 notes per octave had appeared in 1980.

Secrets of Synthesis (1987) is a lecture by Carlos with audio examples (many from her own recordings), expounding on topics she feels to be of importance. Some of the material is an introduction to synthesis, and some (e.g., a discussion of hocket) is aimed at experienced musicians.
Beginning in 1998, all of her catalogue was remastered.

In 2005, the two-volume set Rediscovering Lost Scores was released, featuring previously out-of-print material, including the unreleased soundtrack to Woundings, and music composed and recorded for The Shining, Tron and A Clockwork Orange that was not used in the films.
Personal life

Carlos was born as Walter Carlos in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and began musical education at age six with piano lessons. Following undergraduate studies of music and physics at Brown University accompanied by early explorations of electronic music, Carlos earned a master's degree in composition at Columbia University, studying there with Vladimir Ussachevsky, a pioneer in electronic music (other teachers included Otto Luening and Jack Beeson).

Remaining in New York after graduation, Carlos met Dr. Robert Moog and was one of his earliest customers, providing feedback for his further development of the Moog synthesizer. Carlos convinced Moog to add touch-sensitivity to the synthesizer keyboard, to allow a greater level of dynamics and musicality.[2]

Around 1966, Carlos met Rachel Elkind, who went on to produce Switched-On Bach and other early albums. With the proceeds of Switched-On Bach, the two renovated a New York brownstone, which they shared as a home and business premises, installing a studio for live and electronic recording on the bottom floor. Carlos took the unusual step of enclosing the entire studio in a Faraday cage, shielding the equipment from radio and television interference.

The artist's first recordings were released under the name Walter Carlos. Carlos underwent sex reassignment surgery in 1972[4][5] but was billed as "Walter" on the album By Request (1975). The first release credited to her as "Wendy" was Switched-On Brandenburgs (1979). (The earlier albums have since been re-released under the Wendy Carlos name.) Carlos' first public appearance after her gender transition was in an interview in the May 1979 issue of Playboy magazine, a decision she regrets because of the unwelcome publicity it brought to her personal life, notably in Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, where her surgery was described in anatomical detail. On her official site, her transition is discussed in an essay stating that she values her privacy on the subject.

In 1998, Carlos sued the songwriter/artist Momus for $22 million[7] for his satirical song "Walter Carlos" (which appeared on the album The Little Red Songbook), which suggested that if Wendy could go back in time she could marry Walter. The case was settled out of court, with Momus agreeing to remove it from the CD and owing $30,000 in legal fees.[8]
Carlos is also an accomplished[9] solar eclipse photographer.[10]
Awards and honors


Switched-On Bach was the winner of three 1969 Grammy Awards:[11][12]

• Album Of The Year, Classical
• Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist Or Soloists (With Or Without Orchestra)
• Best Engineered Recording, Classical

In 2005 Carlos was the recipient of the SEAMUS Award "in recognition of lifetime achievement and contribution to the art and craft of electro-acoustic music" by the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States.[13]
Discography


(Albums released during years 1965–1975 were originally released under name "Walter Carlos". Later albums and all re-issues have been released under the name "Wendy Carlos".)

• Electronic Music (1965) LP. Vox Turnabout. Includes two compositions by Walter Carlos: Dialogues for Piano and Two Loudspeakers (with Phillip Ramey, pianist) and Variations for Flute and Tape (with John Heiss, flutist).
• Switched-On Bach (1968
• The Well-Tempered Synthesizer (1969)
• Sonic Seasonings (1972)
• A Clockwork Orange (soundtrack) (1972)
• Wendy Carlos' Clockwork Orange, (1972), all the music composed or realized for the film.
• Switched-On Bach II (1974)
• By Request (1975)
• Switched-On Brandenburgs (1979)
• The Shining: Score Selections (soundtrack) (1980)
• Tron (soundtrack) (1982)
• Digital Moonscapes (1984)
• Beauty In the Beast (1986) SYNCD 200, Jem Records, South Plainfield, NJ[14]
• Land of the Midnight Sun (1986 composition, released on the 1998 Sonic Seasonings reissue)
• Secrets of Synthesis (1987) CBS Records, MK42333.[14]
• Peter and the Wolf (1988 (with "Weird Al" Yankovic)
• Switched-On Bach 2000 (1992) Telarc Int. Co., CD80323.[14]
• Tales of Heaven and Hell (1998: (contains a track using 15 equal temperament)
• Switched-On Boxed Set (1999)
• Rediscovering Lost Scores, Volume 1 (2005) (The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, UNICEF)
• Rediscovering Lost Scores, Volume 2 (2005) (The Shining, Tron, Split Second, Woundings)

References

1. ^ "Walter Carlos - Moog 900 Series - Electronic Music Systems". http://www.discogs.com/Walter-Carlos...elease/1820482. Retrieved 2010-01-19.
2. ^ Holmes, Thom. "Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture." (New York: Routledge, 2008: 218.
3. ^ Carlos, Wendy. "Studio Collection". http://www.wendycarlos.com/photos.html#studios. Retrieved 2008-06-27.
4. ^ "Playboy Interview: Wendy/Walter Carlos" (fee required). Playboy (Playboy Enterprises). May 1979. http://cyber.playboy.com/members/mag...rviews/197905/.
5. ^ "Composer Changes More Than Tune" New York Magazine, April 2, 1979, Vol. 12, No. 14; ISSN 0028-7369.
6. ^ Carlos, Wendy. "On Prurient Matters". http://www.wendycarlos.com/pruri.html. Retrieved 2007-04-29.
7. ^ Shepherd, Fiona (1999-09-10). "The World Can Change in a Matter of Momus". The Scotsman (The Scotsman Publications Ltd.): p. 23.
8. ^ Selvin, Joel; Vaziri, Aidin; Heller, Greg (1999-11-07). "$1,000 Bought a Custom Song on Momus' Latest Album". The San Francisco Chronicle (The Chronicle Publishing Co.). http://articles.sfgate.com/1999-11-0...advisory-board. Retrieved 2010-08-28.
9. ^ "Solar Eclipse Images". Solar Data Analysis Center at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eclipse...se_images.html. Retrieved 2008-10-09.
10. ^ Carlos, Wendy. "The Wendy Carlos Total Solar Eclipse Page". http://www.wendycarlos.com/eclipse.html. Retrieved 2007-04-29.
11. ^ "Grammy Award Winners". http://www.grammy.com/GRAMMY_Awards/Winners/.
12. ^ "Blood, Sweat and Tears beat out Beatles, Cash". UPI. Beaver Country Times. March 13, 1970. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id...g=2443,3660539. Retrieved 2010-08-28.
13. ^ "Wendy Carlos receives the 2005 SEAMUS Lifetime Achievement Award". April 15, 2005. Archived from the original on 2006-01-26. http://web.archive.org/web/200601261...saward3.1.html. Retrieved 2010-08-27. (Summary).
14. ^ a b c Sethares, William A. (2004). Tuning, timbre, spectrum, scale. Springer ; 2nd edition. p. 395. ISBN 978-1852337971. http://books.google.com/books?id=KCh...nepage&f=false. Retrieved 2010-08-29.

External links

• Official website
• Wendy Carlos at the Internet Movie Database
• Wendy Carlos at Allmusic
• Wendy Carlos in conversation with Frank J. Oteri NewMusicBox, April 1, 2007. (includes video)
• Wendy Carlos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia