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  • Electronic music composer Wendy Carlos - whose debut album Switched-On Bach has introduced a new audience to classical music - explains the fundamentals of electronic sound using her Moog Synthesiser, and demonstrates some of the techniques she employed to adapt Johann Sebastian Bach's compositions for the electronic age.
    This clip is from Music Now, originally broadcast 8 February, 1970.
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  • @tabuu9
    @tabuu9 Год назад +2338

    In awe both at her knowledge and her Lupin the 3rd boymode

    • @sethwick8348
      @sethwick8348 Год назад

      She was terrified of the public realizing she was a trans woman, so this was her in disguise as a man. Thus the fake side burns. She also drew on facial hair sometime. Didn't come out as transgender until the late 70s.

    • @scunts
      @scunts Год назад +139

      Lmfao Lupin you're so right. I can't unsee that now.

    • @JelloFluoride
      @JelloFluoride Год назад +40

      Missing the iconic jacket(s) but I appreciate this comment.

    • @thewhitefalcon8539
      @thewhitefalcon8539 Год назад +83

      There were always non-binary people but they were ostracized

    • @wubcarp3319
      @wubcarp3319 Год назад

      According to Wikipedia Wendy did this because although by this time she was on hrt and identifying as female she was still terrified of public perception, and would wear those fake sideburns and wig in order to appear male.

  • @soundtreks
    @soundtreks 2 года назад +1017

    I remember reading an interview with her regarding Tron and how producers originally only wanted her to score the electronic parts until she informed them she could equally write for orchestra (phds in both music and physics).

  • @adamgardiner5869
    @adamgardiner5869 Год назад +636

    There's something so satisfying watching her have to physically plug and unplug cables to get the sound she wants. It's electronic but tactile, very cool.

    • @Nerfherder-oo7iv
      @Nerfherder-oo7iv Год назад +1

      *Him
      Maybe you didn’t pay attention in science class ? Male humans possess XY chromosomes
      Grow up and live in reality

    • @NuGanjaTron
      @NuGanjaTron Год назад +17

      Absolutely. Not a fan of softsynths myself. Need the real knobby thing. 😜
      You can noodle away on a modular synth for hours and lose track of time...

    • @SeymourDisapproves
      @SeymourDisapproves Год назад +1

      Agreed

    • @Ranzear
      @Ranzear Год назад

      Still a thing today. Look up LookMumNoComputer to start.

    • @robsonclark9678
      @robsonclark9678 Год назад +6

      Andrew Huang has a great video with Rob Scallion where they explain how analog synths like this work to a new user. Uts great fun seeing Rob get exciting tinkering around with it. I recommend if you love the plug and experiment aspect! :).

  • @omnito
    @omnito 2 года назад +2355

    Wendy is probably one of the biggest unsung influences on modern music. Respect is due.

    • @80ssynthfan48
      @80ssynthfan48 2 года назад +30

      She gets plenty of kudos at the start of the documentary Synth Britannia.

    • @LordMarlle
      @LordMarlle 2 года назад +20

      Unsung hero? Where have you been hiding

    • @cubdukat
      @cubdukat 2 года назад +43

      If it weren't for her, electronic music would still sound like it was composed by R2-D2.

    • @gasparucciox9706
      @gasparucciox9706 2 года назад +4

      absolutly

    • @froeze
      @froeze 2 года назад +3

      @@ChrisHenry-bj2oi she or he ?

  • @carlkamuti
    @carlkamuti Год назад +128

    Her Clockwork Orange soundtrack was extraordinary: ominous, bleak, jaunty, unsettling, camp.
    One of the first soundtracks that I bought.

    • @MelancoliaI
      @MelancoliaI Год назад +1

      Beautifully put. She needs to be more well known

    • @thomaselers7416
      @thomaselers7416 Год назад +2

      I never knew it was him who made it, will done Sir.

    • @spartan1347981
      @spartan1347981 Год назад +5

      @@thomaselers7416 her* ma'am*

    • @thomaselers7416
      @thomaselers7416 Год назад +1

      @@spartan1347981 Ridiculous to call a man "she". But do as you please, make a woke fool out of yourself

    • @spartan1347981
      @spartan1347981 Год назад +12

      @@thomaselers7416 woke? What's that? I'm just saying you should respect her identity, she's a trans woman, not a man.

  • @uiscepreston
    @uiscepreston Год назад +378

    A true pioneer on so many fronts. Moog didn't consider himself a musician so he asked around for help designing his synthesizer. Wendy was one of those whose input he solicited. She knows it because she helped develop it. Moog never got a patent for it either. He couldn't have made millions off it. But he instead gave it to the world.

  • @pcc678
    @pcc678 Год назад +209

    My uncle, who was an audiophile, played "Switched on Bach" for me in 1969. I was 8 years old, and it changed my life. From that time on I was a huge electronic music fan, and became a musician.

  • @HANKTHEDANKEST
    @HANKTHEDANKEST Год назад +939

    This video is over 50 years old, but I swear Wendy makes this whole "synthesizer" thing seem wild and new. Tomorrow's World.

  • @Aster_Risk
    @Aster_Risk Год назад +90

    Her voice is so pleasant that it makes this even nicer to listen to. Thanks RUclips for reminding me I need to learn more about her.

    • @thomaselers7416
      @thomaselers7416 Год назад +3

      You can start by learning his gender, lol

    • @PulsarGlitchMusic
      @PulsarGlitchMusic 9 месяцев назад +31

      @@thomaselers7416was looking through the comments briefly and realized you re-visited this comment section several times over the course of about a year just to be transphobic. what a shame and a waste of time. go spend your energy on something better than hate

    • @thomaselers7416
      @thomaselers7416 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@PulsarGlitchMusic You called me? So here I am again. "Transphobic"? No I'm not afraid of transvestites. 😊

    • @DarkSoraFFno
      @DarkSoraFFno 2 дня назад

      @@thomaselers7416 You clearly are tho since you spend this much of your own lifes time to hate on them :)

    • @thomaselers7416
      @thomaselers7416 2 дня назад

      @@DarkSoraFFno Well, whatever makes you happy. If you believe you can change gender then it's useless to talk sense with you.

  • @ZeroChannelZero
    @ZeroChannelZero 10 месяцев назад +27

    Not too many people realize the dedication & sheer madness involved in recreating Bach's works on a monophonic analog synth, note by note, waveform by waveform. If not for Wendy showing us it can be done, the Moog synth--and possibly all synthesizer music--could've died out as a mere curiosity like the Theramin. What she did was the musical equivalent of making the first airplane flight across the Atlantic, just to prove what the new technology can do.

  • @DeadWhiteButterflies
    @DeadWhiteButterflies Год назад +115

    This is a genuinely good way to show a synth works. After all, it can be very intimidating as an instrument if you don't commit a huge amount of learning what every knob and setting does.

  • @mikeg3439
    @mikeg3439 Год назад +148

    As a little kid I had the album Switched On Bach. I did have some confusion about why Wendy ended up being named Wendy, but my dad explained it (he just said the truth, as much as he could to a six year old). Switched On Bach is wonderful, I still remember it nearly 50 years later (for me -- I know it was out in 1968, I didn't get it until I was six in 1974).

    • @spartan1347981
      @spartan1347981 Год назад +23

      Wow Wendy also started hormones in 1968, it's really unfortunate that she became famous at the begining of her transition as it really delayed how nucb she could live as herself for a few years

    • @sonicimperium
      @sonicimperium Год назад

      @@spartan1347981 Who cares? Try staying out of people's personal business.

    • @spartan1347981
      @spartan1347981 Год назад +1

      @@sonicimperium what are you on about lmao?

    • @neddanison9202
      @neddanison9202 Год назад +4

      I had Switched on Bach as a kid, too. I still have the cassette -- from probably 1974!

  • @Dave_Cymru
    @Dave_Cymru 2 года назад +617

    Wendy Carlos was a true maestro of the pureism of sound, her music in TRON 1982 and A ClockWork Orange was a pure joy to listen to! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

    • @keykrazy
      @keykrazy 2 года назад +8

      Is!... *Is* a true joy to listen to! (If you'll pardon the correction.) I'm not expecting her to release anything new at her current age, but your comment got me to thinking and hoping that maybe there is some slight chance we could see something new from her at some point...
      Regardless, I am grateful there's a wealth of her work out there. With COVID the nature of my work changed such that i could listen to music while doing my duties. Am a little ashamed to admit I've only just recently gotten around to listening to her Sonic Seasonings work.
      We are fortunate to have lived during a span of decades where humankind's ability to create music has flourished to such an extent, being alive in the same time as such luminaries...

    • @Dave_Cymru
      @Dave_Cymru 2 года назад +1

      I put WAS as I was speaking in a past sense as a Clockwork Orange was released in 1968. Is, is a direct reference to present time.

    • @stephenchappell7512
      @stephenchappell7512 2 года назад +14

      @@Dave_Cymru
      You're getting your Kubrick's mixed up
      2001 was 68 whereas Clockwork Orange
      was 71

    • @Dave_Cymru
      @Dave_Cymru 2 года назад +3

      @@stephenchappell7512 Whoops, thanks for pointing out my error. 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

    • @thomaselers7416
      @thomaselers7416 2 года назад +9

      Why you say "her", isn't it a guy with those humongous sideburns?

  • @unknownengines
    @unknownengines Год назад +404

    boymode wendy out here looking like an entirely unconvincing drag king in her $5 stick-on sideburns. legend

    • @broadkast477
      @broadkast477 Год назад +21

      He was born a biological male named Walter. The sideburns are real.

    • @yesterdaydream
      @yesterdaydream Год назад +249

      @@broadkast477 Wiki says sideburns were pasted on for boymode after she transitioned. Either way, she's talented and lovely and stylish and it'd be a nice sign of respect to put in the effort of typing one extra "s" at the beginning of your comment.

    • @skateordie002
      @skateordie002 Год назад +9

      I find it so funny

    • @Gubbins_McBumbersnoot
      @Gubbins_McBumbersnoot Год назад +63

      Those sideburns were bought from a costume store lmao don’t kid yourself

    • @ProfessorGroyper
      @ProfessorGroyper Год назад

      @@yesterdaydream There is no such thing as "boymode". It's literally an ugly dude with a girly voice with tacky costume pieces glued to his face. Looks ridiculous.

  • @zachhaywood1564
    @zachhaywood1564 Год назад +690

    How she can explain all of this highly technical stuff like she's talking about making breakfast is very impressive on its own, before taking into account her skill as an actual synthesist and musician.

    • @rodnee2340
      @rodnee2340 Год назад

      She is obviously Autistic. And we assumed her gender. And BTW she is brilliant. An early pioneer of electronic music. 💯

    • @zachhaywood1564
      @zachhaywood1564 Год назад +16

      @@rodnee2340 I'm autistic too, so this video is inspiration for me.

    • @rodnee2340
      @rodnee2340 Год назад +4

      @@zachhaywood1564 and me. 👍

    • @deebop3539
      @deebop3539 Год назад +4

      This is how most ppl spoke in similar circumstances back then. Cadence, tone, and word selection are all very recognizable from other television programs of this era.

    • @User0000000000000004
      @User0000000000000004 Год назад +17

      He. It's a he. His name is Walter Carlos.

  • @maezzologymedia14
    @maezzologymedia14 Год назад +37

    This is both a super effective basic introduction to electronic music and epic demonstration of sideburns at the same time. Just magnificent.

    • @AL-fl4jk
      @AL-fl4jk Год назад

      They’re fake. She was undergoing hormone therapy at this point and was so self conscious and scared to leave the house she wore fake sideburns wigs and facial hair in several interviews and appearances

  • @KRAFTWERK2K6
    @KRAFTWERK2K6 2 года назад +301

    You can tell Wendy is a nerd as well because of the way how passionate and well elaborate she explains everything on a level that even non-professionals can follow. I remember having seen a similar Interview for the BBC from 1989 or so when did a similar demonstration and also explaining Additive Synthesis. :) You have no idea how important of a creative musical rolemodel she is for me. We Love you, Wendy!!! 💖
    🎶🎵🎹

    • @Bobainthome
      @Bobainthome 2 года назад +19

      I love watching people nerd out on things they love...

    • @thomaselers7416
      @thomaselers7416 Год назад +15

      He has been a great inspiration to many.

    • @iamrococoo
      @iamrococoo Год назад +22

      @@thomaselers7416 dude.

    • @thomaselers7416
      @thomaselers7416 Год назад +14

      @@iamrococoo Yes dude.

    • @terezip2213
      @terezip2213 Год назад

      @@thomaselers7416 commit

  • @thepirate5955
    @thepirate5955 2 месяца назад +5

    My older brother has gifted me so much cool music, to include Switched On Bach. That was in 1970. Since then, I have ALWAYS loved what a synth can do! This is great stuff!

  • @ludwiglanestudios
    @ludwiglanestudios Год назад +43

    When you mix a great pianist/keyboardist and a great gearhead/electronic engineer, you get someone like Wendy Carlos. Legend. It's rare when there's a person who can not only operate these gigantic complex synths- she can play the hell out of them as well.

  • @chegeny
    @chegeny 7 месяцев назад +11

    Thank you, BBC Archive. To watch a musician like Wendy Carlos give us a demo on her Moog synthesiser is a gift.

  • @jeezlouise1902
    @jeezlouise1902 2 года назад +83

    Tron is a huge reason as to why i love early synth music.. Wendy is amazing!

    • @andreafox7267
      @andreafox7267 2 года назад +6

      Me too. I love the Tron music. She is an inspiration!

    • @broadkast477
      @broadkast477 Год назад +2

      His sideburns are cool too.

    • @thc_freebaser
      @thc_freebaser Год назад +12

      @@broadkast477 do you have a life? Genuine question

    • @ProfessorGroyper
      @ProfessorGroyper Год назад +1

      Troon music

  • @tatache5971
    @tatache5971 Год назад +149

    To this day, Wendy Carlos "Rocky Mountains" on the Shining OST is one of the most incredible synth piece I ever heard. Great to see the artist technique here!

    • @comoyoko
      @comoyoko Год назад +4

      I’d forgotten she did The Shining! That’s so cool. Shining and Tron!!

    • @Theomite
      @Theomite Год назад +3

      She did that with Rachel Elkind too I believe.

    • @copee2960
      @copee2960 Год назад

      Who made the music for A Clockwork Orange?

    • @spartan1347981
      @spartan1347981 Год назад +3

      @@copee2960 Wendy Carlos did

    • @MelancoliaI
      @MelancoliaI Год назад +1

      Yes! Thanks to you I just looked that piece up, beautiful. What a genius

  • @bluegoldforever
    @bluegoldforever Год назад +161

    iconic moment in boymoding history

    • @jtaco4101
      @jtaco4101 5 месяцев назад +4

      It's a man.

    • @spartan1347981
      @spartan1347981 5 месяцев назад

      @@jtaco4101 how can you tell she's a man? It's Wendy Carlos. she's a woman.

    • @squizzle5192
      @squizzle5192 5 месяцев назад +30

      @@jtaco4101Wendy Carlos began living as a woman in 1968 and underwent sex reassignment surgery in 1972. She's a woman. Not that it's got anything to do with her music.

    • @The_TinesJathian
      @The_TinesJathian 5 месяцев назад +18

      ikr? wikipedia says her sideburns are actually fake here. really impressive tbh, tho i feel bad for her here obviously

    • @EATSLEEPDRIVE2002
      @EATSLEEPDRIVE2002 4 месяца назад +2

      @@The_TinesJathian so wait… Why did he turn into a girl, then put fake sideburns back on?

  • @forest_green
    @forest_green 10 месяцев назад +10

    I love watching experts talking passionately about their subject. Wendy's such a professional, and her music is so good. I wish she could have been her true self outwardly at this point, but she shines through regardless.

  • @OverSoft
    @OverSoft 2 года назад +234

    What a legend. She has the rare ability to put difficult to understand concepts into easy to understand chunks. Not only that, she has enormous musical talent. What a combination.

    • @thomaselers7416
      @thomaselers7416 Год назад +12

      But very difficult to find his albums.

    • @DonRosa949
      @DonRosa949 Год назад +1

      Además respetuosamente *"Trans.*

    • @kegalormoon
      @kegalormoon Год назад +4

      I done this as a young lad in electronics the theory teacher was teaching the practical and the practical teacher twas teaching the theory but listening to thus lady just by chance btw this is so easy to understand

    • @laok0354
      @laok0354 Год назад +24

      @@thomaselers7416 her*

    • @thomaselers7416
      @thomaselers7416 Год назад +6

      @@laok0354 Are you a flat earther or something?

  • @livvy94
    @livvy94 2 года назад +694

    This is an iconic interview. She wasn't out yet so she had to put on those weird sideburn things. As a trans chiptune artist I am grateful for her for paving the way and being such a class act!
    I wish her music was easier to come by though!

    • @InfiniteRhombus
      @InfiniteRhombus 2 года назад +43

      i thought those sideburns looked fake

    • @Thunderpuddle
      @Thunderpuddle 2 года назад +9

      So hard to get hold of her albums, on CD in the UK.

    • @gjcalvert
      @gjcalvert 2 года назад +18

      I found a handful of her albums on vinyl digging through the clearance shelves at different half price books, switched-on bach seems to be a fairly common one (still billed as Walter then) but you def have to do some digging

    • @moogyboy6
      @moogyboy6 2 года назад +6

      Two vinyl copies of SOB in my collection (one is a promo with the alternate cover photo) as well as a copy of The Well Tempered Synthesizer, the album with the 4th Brandenburg that Wendy refers to in this video. CDs of her work are hard to find since East Side Digital stopped distributing them, but if you can find their Switched-On Box Set it's an amazing collection of all six concertos, newly remastered and incmuding a couple of bonus "behind the scenes" tracks..
      If you want more of Wendy's style of educational content, her Secrets Of Synthesis CD from 1988 (her last for CBS) is an excellent album-length master class that touches on all sorts of topics (with demonstrations of course) however the focus is less on synth hardware than on musical aspects like electronic orchestration techniques, scales and intonations, additive vs subtractive synthesis, etc. Think of her other BBC interview video, but greatly expanded upon.

    • @norahk3629
      @norahk3629 2 года назад +8

      @@InfiniteRhombus I didn't catch it when watching it but my girlfriend did and roasted me for not noticing haha

  • @russellmurray6441
    @russellmurray6441 2 года назад +65

    Such a brilliant piece, Wendy Carlos is nothing short of a genius

  • @kiskaloo6843
    @kiskaloo6843 Год назад +11

    Wendy is one of my heroes. It's a shame that she is not more well known.

    • @edge4266
      @edge4266 Год назад +1

      start talking about her! thats what ive been doing, im making sure all my friends know how awesome she was

  • @JC20XX
    @JC20XX 2 года назад +29

    Great to see this uploaded in higher quality She describes the fundamentals of subtractive synthesis better than anyone else I've ever heard.

    • @thomaselers7416
      @thomaselers7416 Год назад

      Yes it was perfectly explained, she did it in a way everyone can understand.

  • @soundsof...
    @soundsof... 2 года назад +10

    So precise, straight to the point. A masterclass as we rarely see. Thank you for sharing. Hope to see more !!!

  • @rickardlagrelius5555
    @rickardlagrelius5555 8 месяцев назад +35

    I have heard of musicians that don’t regard synthesizer players real musicians.
    But listen to this person and just be in awe of her knowledge.

  • @femmeslash
    @femmeslash Год назад +25

    Been slowly studying up on classic Big Names in music as just part of a phase where i keep wondering "how did we get here?" In genres i like. So excited whenever i come across these type of videos/archives, hearing the masters at work in terms of thought process and, as well, seeing the tech they had at the time is such a gem always! I could hear her talk about producing far above any knowledge i have for hours and cant imagine getting bored

  • @eduardoarmenta9232
    @eduardoarmenta9232 2 года назад +52

    The way she showed the intricacies of the system made it so that even someone like me with next to zero knowledge in the matter could appreciate what a revolution this whole thing was at the time. There's always those who paved the way for the rest of us to make our dreams a reality.

    • @hello-rq8kf
      @hello-rq8kf Год назад +3

      *he

    • @d3tuned378
      @d3tuned378 Год назад

      @@hello-rq8kf *she
      Drink windex

    • @hello-rq8kf
      @hello-rq8kf Год назад +2

      @@d3tuned378 is this the pc version of telling someone to drinking bleach? why beat around the bush, troon?

    • @zoned7609
      @zoned7609 Год назад +12

      @@hello-rq8kf *she

    • @zoned7609
      @zoned7609 Год назад

      @@hello-rq8kf how related are your parents, chud? sit in a burning car

  • @scaredyfish
    @scaredyfish 2 года назад +20

    Amazing stuff! Great to see such a pioneer at work!

  • @echoesrecordingstudio586
    @echoesrecordingstudio586 Год назад +42

    I just don’t have enough words to express the massive admiration and love that I have for Wendy Carlos. Her contribution to music, movie scores, and being probably the best visionary of the Moog synthesizer is just mind blowing.

  • @hampter3752
    @hampter3752 Год назад +16

    I've been making music for about four years now, but I haven't heard such a great explanation of how a synth works than here from Wendy. There's so much lingo to learn but it makes perfect sense that someone teaching synthesizers to an audience of people who have no knowledge of them is one of the best synth players of all time! It amazes me how the music we have now is so alien compared to what we had decades ago, in part because of her. What a legend!

    • @mspysu79
      @mspysu79 9 месяцев назад

      Go look for a copy of "Secrets Of Synthesis" Originally released on CBS/Sony/Columbia, and later on East Side Digital. She goes through it all from the Moog to the Synergy.

  • @opwave79
    @opwave79 2 года назад +50

    She was a huge influence on my electronic music journey. Indispensable knowledge and she shares it in the simplest terms.

    • @markspencer171
      @markspencer171 2 года назад +10

      he

    • @jeitoots
      @jeitoots 2 года назад +32

      She is wonderful

    • @srkbear1
      @srkbear1 2 года назад +39

      @@markspencer171 There you go again. How come you’re so threatened by her? What are you doing trolling the site of a trans artist? Something you need to share with someone big guy?

    • @srkbear1
      @srkbear1 2 года назад

      @@markspencer171 Keep on digging your hole further boss-the more you post the more obsessed with trans issues and your own insecurity about your own gender identity you appear. Keep up the gravy, you’re making it too easy…

    • @Fr_87
      @Fr_87 Год назад +5

      @@srkbear1 Dilate, seethe even.

  • @f33fifofum
    @f33fifofum 2 года назад +179

    Wendy Carlos is one of modern music's true pioneers. Massively underrated or even shunned by the wider music community after her life changes in the 1970s, so glad finally getting the recognition she deserves

    • @broadkast477
      @broadkast477 Год назад +8

      *he

    • @hello-rq8kf
      @hello-rq8kf Год назад +8

      *he

    • @thc_freebaser
      @thc_freebaser Год назад +1

      @@hello-rq8kf do you have a life genuine question

    • @thc_freebaser
      @thc_freebaser Год назад +60

      @@broadkast477 tell me you'll never accomplish anything close to what she did without telling me you won't lol

    • @hello-rq8kf
      @hello-rq8kf Год назад +4

      @@thc_freebaser i do thats why it only took me 3 minutes on the toilet to write all these

  • @costabravaguy
    @costabravaguy 7 месяцев назад +15

    It's hard to believe that Switched-on Bach is 55 years old. The best electronic classical album in the world in my opinion.

  • @Nooticus
    @Nooticus 2 года назад +4

    So happy that the BBC Archive is posting this excellent clip again!

  • @K0r0n1s
    @K0r0n1s 2 года назад +5

    OMG, legendary material! Thanks for releasing it.

  • @agorgedslug
    @agorgedslug 2 года назад +100

    Embarrassed to say I hadn't heard of her, while simultaneously loving Tron and Clockwork Orange. The technical explanation is so precise that I now understand loads more about 21st century presets than I did 10 minutes ago.

  • @SunilAruldas
    @SunilAruldas 2 года назад +10

    The Switched-On Bach long playing record was the first time Bach made glorious sense to me, with that wonderful clarity of the voices

  • @generalwamsler4743
    @generalwamsler4743 Год назад +10

    Carlos is for me the greatest Genius ever. I love her Music since 1978.

  • @qqwui9989
    @qqwui9989 2 месяца назад +3

    "The last of which is the least useful"
    Little did she know the home console would imortalise that sound forever.

  • @superwhizz114
    @superwhizz114 Год назад +12

    I love how she explains the equipment she uses so eloquently

  • @tomvanbreukelen2909
    @tomvanbreukelen2909 Год назад +27

    Still stunning after all these years. Wendy is a true maestro.

  • @keiyakins
    @keiyakins 5 месяцев назад +1

    Listening to someone who truly knows and is passionate about a topic is always a joy.

  • @Garionica
    @Garionica 2 года назад +118

    She quite frankly revolutionized music, and does a great job presenting electronic sound design advice that's relevant even today. Nothing bur respect for her.

    • @markspencer171
      @markspencer171 2 года назад +18

      he

    • @Garionica
      @Garionica 2 года назад

      @@markspencer171 let's play a game, it's called spot the dipshit
      found her, it's you, good job

    • @srkbear1
      @srkbear1 2 года назад

      @@markspencer171 She, big guy. Don’t be so threatened-the longer you persist with this nonsense the more you’re going to give away how insecure you are with your own masculinity. Maybe a penis pump would help?

    • @Zapidom
      @Zapidom Год назад +48

      @@markspencer171 she

    • @thomaselers7416
      @thomaselers7416 Год назад +12

      Yes, he doesn't get enough credit.

  • @KSL1972LLC
    @KSL1972LLC Год назад +129

    Wendy's method of crafting the exact sound is very similar to that of an organ builder voicing a specific rank of pipes to get that 'envisioned sound'.
    This clip is a real gem to watch. Makes me appreciate the work from her albums and film scores. Especially the one from Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange'.

    • @philomelodia
      @philomelodia Год назад +1

      The resemblance was not lost on me. I’m glad you pointed it out. I am listening to switched on Bach as I write this. The Fidelity with which she reproduced so many of the sounds of the various instruments on the Brandenburg Concerti is just astounding. You can tell it’s a synthesizer because you know what to listen for but, it does not sound overdone or overly high-tech or any of that. All of the sounds are masterfully crafted and exceedingly mellow and very beautiful. I think the maestro himself would have been pleased. He certainly would have been utterly fascinated at the concept. She did his Music justice even if her interpretation of some of these was a bit rushed in my opinion.

    • @User0000000000000004
      @User0000000000000004 Год назад +1

      No. No it isn't. It's not even remotely like that.

    • @d3tuned378
      @d3tuned378 Год назад +1

      @@User0000000000000004 Yes it is. It's exactly like that.

  • @milk1fan552
    @milk1fan552 Год назад +2

    this video amazes me, how she can explain everything so easily and make it look so simple

  • @claytonbouldin9381
    @claytonbouldin9381 Год назад +3

    I have only seen small pieces of this interview with Wendy. Thanks for posting the whole interview!

  • @swillm3ister
    @swillm3ister Год назад +7

    Learned of Wendy from A Clockwork Orange. What an amazing contribution this musical talent brought to that iconic movie.

  • @AoiUsagiOtoko
    @AoiUsagiOtoko Год назад +19

    her voice is so relaxing to listen to, i love it 💕 i could listen to her infodump about synths for hours

  • @unicornsandrainbowsandchic2336
    @unicornsandrainbowsandchic2336 Год назад +2

    This is absolutely mind blowing. That they don't just know the sounds but the why. So much admiration!

  • @mattapacca
    @mattapacca 7 месяцев назад +2

    Her explanation of how a Moog works was so simple and straightforward that even I could understand it!!.

  • @darrenwells2277
    @darrenwells2277 Год назад +6

    An absolute pioneer.... I remember my Dad had Switched on Bach when I was a kid and thought it sounded so ahead of its time.

  • @EmlynInTheMix
    @EmlynInTheMix Год назад +10

    That was one of the best explanations of just how a synth works 🎉

  • @wolfmath8615
    @wolfmath8615 5 месяцев назад +2

    As a child I absorbed this music like a sponge! My great respect to Wendy for transforming this wonderful music of Bach into the electronic world of the Moog synthesizer already in 1969(!!!). The analytical presentation enabled me to delve deeply into the harmonies and melodic progressions in these early years. Thank you so much! ❤

  • @zebop917
    @zebop917 Год назад +11

    It is absolutely the case that listening to Wendy Carlos’ albums was the start of me learning to love the music of JS Bach and I shall always be grateful to her for that

    • @Nerfherder-oo7iv
      @Nerfherder-oo7iv Год назад +3

      *Him
      It’s a male. Male humans possess XY chromosomes. Sorry you didn’t pay attention in science class.

    • @zebop917
      @zebop917 Год назад +9

      @@Nerfherder-oo7iv Yawn…….

    • @quietquitter6103
      @quietquitter6103 Год назад +2

      @@zebop917 Factual science makes you tired?

  • @veesonnets9457
    @veesonnets9457 8 месяцев назад +3

    Thank you Wendy! Much love and admiration for your expertise, innovations, and music. ❤

  • @jessicawalton3497
    @jessicawalton3497 Год назад +61

    Thank you, Wendy, for paving the way for women like me who truly appreciate electronic music and how it is made.

    • @Weird.Dreams
      @Weird.Dreams Год назад +6

      Perhaps she should win woman of the year like that other dude did? 😂

    • @82892869hi
      @82892869hi Год назад +2

      @@Weird.Dreams get a life instead of obsessing over 0.1% of the population, if anyone did what you did about race or religion they’d be seen as a lunatic

    • @WeRNthisToGetHer
      @WeRNthisToGetHer Год назад +9

      You mean Walter? Hate to break it to ya, but Wendy is a man.

    • @82892869hi
      @82892869hi Год назад +1

      @@WeRNthisToGetHer she’s more of a woman than you are dog, get off your high horse

    • @AageKush
      @AageKush Год назад +7

      No one paves the way for women better than a man.

  • @paulpalumbo3646
    @paulpalumbo3646 Год назад

    In my opinion this is the most concise yet brilliant explanations of this process ever documented. Very interesting!

  • @iceman213
    @iceman213 Год назад +2

    I know someone who has one of these and it always blows me away how awesome it is…

  • @archdukeofsynth
    @archdukeofsynth 2 года назад +5

    Wow, nice to finally see what looks like the whole film segment.

  • @SPQSpartacus
    @SPQSpartacus Год назад +5

    Absolutely captivating. I understand nothing of it, to be honest. But watching it unfold is magical.

  • @MrVara411
    @MrVara411 Год назад +25

    Amazing. I love how these artists had profound knowledge of music theory and respect for past masters... they weren't kids banging away at a drum machine. I've always had a great deal of respect for artists like Wendy, Elizabeth Parker, Peter Howell... we owe them more than we think!

    • @orionishi6737
      @orionishi6737 Год назад +15

      Everyone was a kid banging away at some point. Even Wendy, Elizabeth Parker, and Peter Howell

    • @TheNinja94a
      @TheNinja94a Год назад +8

      @@orionishi6737 Every random ass commenter who's never touched an instrument becomes an old dude complaining about the current generation on any old music video.
      Take it from me, a fan of old school hip-hop. Every video has those comments. It's weird, as if the generation before Wendy didn't call her music fake, talentless garbage that was a result of some rando twisting knobs and screwing with wires.

  • @RandallFishwick
    @RandallFishwick 7 месяцев назад +3

    What a great explanation of modular synthesis by one of earliest and greatest of masters!

  • @croiners4166
    @croiners4166 2 года назад +5

    Classic stuff, thanks for posting! Wow!

  • @Rhythmicons
    @Rhythmicons 2 года назад +16

    This is an absolutely amazing feat of recording and sound engineering.

  • @gavinjones3933
    @gavinjones3933 Год назад +2

    Such a good teacher. Makes a beast of a machine seem easy. Enthusiasm without head in clouds.

  • @Kbedard90391
    @Kbedard90391 Год назад +5

    I loved the shining theme. Did not know she helped write that. What an incredible mind and talent

  • @andycordy5190
    @andycordy5190 7 месяцев назад +3

    This is such a treat. Thanks to the beeb that such footage has been preserved.
    The gigantic proportions of the synthesiser is one element of my fascination, of course. However, her concise explanation of sound generation and shaping, though by no means comprehensive is enough to focus the listener on the bare essentials, in order to understand what follows.
    For me, the magic, what helps me understand her, is the familiarity and finess with which she handles the 8 track recorder. Craft and experience, not some boffin but a seasoned musician, whose choice of musical instruments is not what other musicians of the time would recognise. I was thirteen when this was recorded and the first time I heard "Switched on Bach was about a year later. I remember the mesmerising effect. It gave music a permissive quality. Music could be more or less anything. I could not aspire to owning a synthesiser then and it was many years before I could afford a basic one, by which time, thanks largely to this music, a world wide interest and mass market interest had started the snowball that would lead to the amazing instruments of today, many of which I'm sure Wendy would have loved.

  • @DefendTheStar
    @DefendTheStar Год назад +8

    This is so very cool. My father was a rather accomplished pianist and it makes me a bit sad he's not still here to share this with. Knowing him he'd be like "oh yeah Wendy Carlos, I played with her in the 70s at the Clam Shack w Jimmy Jones and Bobby Maddox."
    I miss the big guy 😥

  • @FastLaneLyfe
    @FastLaneLyfe Год назад +6

    I live in Asheville, NC where the moog was invented. There’s a museum here. I have been in it multiple times.

    • @spartannl8227
      @spartannl8227 2 месяца назад

      Yeah, that’s also my link to this topic, as one of the first occasions that I listened to synthesized music was “Trip into the body” from compatriot Johan Timman. He’s used the same Moog as Wendy has: “Moog, known for the impressive modular synthesizers from the 60s and 70s, released the Minimoog in 1970, an affordable, simpler version by Moog standards of the enormous machines used by Wendy Carlos and Johan Timman, among others. Although the possibilities of the Minimoog were much less than the modular Moog synthesizers, the Minimoog, with three oscillators and a noise generator, a Moog filter and an ADSR generator, was warmly received and from 1970 onwards there was not a single self-respecting keyboardist left who was not there. owned at least one. However, with a price of a few thousand guilders, it was not a hobby instrument,” Source: www.retro-lab.nl/?p=1616
      Wendy was one of the absolute front runners in the area of synthesized sounds and - music. Respect!

  • @robertschlesinger1342
    @robertschlesinger1342 Год назад +3

    Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video.

  • @Dr.Kananga
    @Dr.Kananga Год назад +8

    She has been one of the biggest influences in electronic music that pushed me to love this genre, starting from A Clockwork Orange soundtrack.

    • @thomaselers7416
      @thomaselers7416 Год назад

      I don't know it was him who made it until recently. 😃🙏

  • @sstrange96
    @sstrange96 2 года назад +6

    My favourite early synthesiser clip, hooked since I first heard the Clockwork Orange opening music

  • @barbd5607
    @barbd5607 Год назад +2

    Our music teacher taught us so much about Moog in 1970. Great memories 🇬🇧

  • @macpakinga1271
    @macpakinga1271 Год назад +3

    Wow very cool Wendy thank you for sharing Amazed 😮. ❤

  • @kristenisher
    @kristenisher Год назад +4

    It's amazing how all of these fundamentals are still in use in synthesis today - and she's better at explaining how they work than most audio courses too!

    • @FreejackVesa
      @FreejackVesa Год назад

      Audio synthesis like this is essentially performing arithmetic on electricity. Dope af

  • @hunter999888
    @hunter999888 Год назад +10

    This lady right here is such a under appreciated genius who went through hell I can’t even begin to imagine. Yet, she’s always just been curious and creative and let’s be real she is
    The Queen of The Synth

    • @MrDastardly
      @MrDastardly 10 месяцев назад

      This is a man! Look at those side burns!!

    • @getienne7015
      @getienne7015 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@MrDastardlyThat's three years before transition to female transgender.

    • @ailuromantic
      @ailuromantic Месяц назад

      @@MrDastardlytheyre not even real idiot theyre glue ons 😭

    • @EllieK_814
      @EllieK_814 Месяц назад

      ​@@MrDastardly The sideburns are fake lol, she had to glue them on

  • @ghostcatoffical
    @ghostcatoffical Год назад +1

    Absolutely amazing. Very useful tool. amazing how much use this has come to be over years

  • @mcbill7352
    @mcbill7352 6 месяцев назад +2

    this is actually an awesome explanation of basic synth technology

  • @salwilk558
    @salwilk558 Год назад +5

    Bravado indeed, one of the most underrated people in musical history .

  • @TheOrientalNightFish
    @TheOrientalNightFish 9 месяцев назад +4

    Her music is fascinating. She is fascinating. Her mind seems an alien landscape. I'd love to see her thought stream. Amazing.

  • @jaylenfrank
    @jaylenfrank Год назад +1

    Nice to see this video back into rotation. I recall seeing this many years ago.

  • @robj2704
    @robj2704 Год назад +2

    I worked in an electrical supply house in the late seventies and met Bob Moog who was there buying supplies to wire his new house. I had no idea who he was but a fellow employee gave me some history about him. Seemed like a nice guy. Several years ago a factory for his synthesizer was built in the city I live.

  • @lerpack455
    @lerpack455 2 года назад +3

    A brilliant tutor…… from ‘68 to 2022 l have have had an interest in The Moog. Now, l start to understand how the sound is lead and controlled. l will now start to save up for one!
    But truly, Carlos was for me personally an introduction into classical music. Especially at first - Bach.

  • @jarniwoop
    @jarniwoop Год назад +10

    Watching this I am astounded at what an amazing ear.for music she has. I had the Switched on Bach Clickwork Orange, and the amazing Sonic Season albums. Epic music.

  • @DerekLippold
    @DerekLippold 5 месяцев назад +1

    An excellent explanation of what seems to be crazy complex.

  • @awakatilluminado6129
    @awakatilluminado6129 Год назад +1

    Amazing, love learning all these things!! Thanks Wendy such an inspiration!

  • @mjears
    @mjears Год назад +4

    Major fan since the original S-OB (I was 5). If I could have seen THIS when I was 7 or 8, my musical life would have gone differently! As it was, I had to wait about 10 years to get access to a Mini-Moog one summer, and see for myself how all these things worked. And so soon after came digital synthesis and everything changed.

  • @phpn99
    @phpn99 Год назад +14

    Switched On Bach changed my life when it came out. Isao Tomita came close second but no less of a brilliant synthesist.

    • @michman2
      @michman2 Год назад

      Mine too. I can still hear every note.

  • @overcastandhaze
    @overcastandhaze 7 месяцев назад +1

    Fascinating, how to tune a musical machine, that forms notes from light and energy, and with the right plugs in the right places.

  • @jorijett
    @jorijett Год назад +1

    It is SO incredible to come across this!!! Wendy Carlos is my hero times two!!!

  • @badgerag
    @badgerag Год назад +3

    absolutely amazing

  • @davecool42
    @davecool42 2 года назад +4

    Absolutely mind blowing!

  • @vincenzomarino3876
    @vincenzomarino3876 Год назад +2

    And that "surprise when she first heard it" made the Shining. Amazing!

  • @jasonpeters9716
    @jasonpeters9716 11 месяцев назад +3

    Just fantastic.
    Music of "Clockwork Orange" grabbed me fr first note-Alex jumping out window