Watch Composer Wendy Carlos Demo an Unique Moog Synthesizer (1989)

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She’s labored with Stan­ley Kubrick *and* “Bizarre Al” Yankovic, and helped Robert Moog within the devel­op­ment of his epony­mous syn­the­siz­er. Wendy Automotive­los can also be one of many first excessive professional­file trans­gen­der artists–credited as Wal­ter Automotive­los for Kubrick’s A Clock­work Orange however hav­ing tran­si­tioned to Wendy by the point of The Shin­ing, wherein only some…

How the Fairlight CMI Synthesizer Revolutionized Music

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Within the cred­its of Phil Collins’ No Jack­et Required seems the dis­claimer that “there isn’t a Fairlight on this file.” Cryp­tic although it could have appeared to most of that album’s many purchase­ers, tech­nol­o­gy-mind­ed musi­cians would’ve received it. Within the half-decades since its intro­duc­tion, the Fairlight Com­put­er Musi­cal Instru­ment, or CMI, had reshaped the sound…