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Nov 14, 2019 - 2:53 AM
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Rameau
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Happy birthday Wendy. She played quite a big part in my life. After buying the soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange & liking the synth stuff, I bought the albums Switched-On Bach & The Well-Tempered Synthesizer, & that started me on a journey with classical music which I'm still on. I did buy the Switched On-Box Set (CD) some years ago, about £35 in HMV, it costs a fortune now, I don't listen to them very often, but it's good to have them.
There was another synth album of classical music by Hans Wurman (jumping on the bandwagon) The Moog Strikes Bach (RCA), no way near as good as the Carlos albums, but I really liked it, & rather annoyingly it's never been released on CD.
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Those BACH albums were recorded on MONOPHONIC Moogs!
Amazing#
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Time to listen to Tron. Happy birthday, Wendy.
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I will always remember buying the LP of Digital Moonscapes at the same time as Amadeus - loved it ever since!
I think of this as her masterpiece, especially the very smart way she both recreates an orchestral palette synthetically and then plays with it ever so subtly.
But I love all her stuff, and so wish I had bought the Switched on Bach collection and Sonic Seasonings when they first appeared on CD.
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Carlos was creative & unique, I use to wonder why she gave-up movies after Tron that was a fine end too scoring, yea, she equalized with her adaptions work her ambient stuff too & Synth-Bach's etc, those album styles are great, "Switched on Brandenburg's" is one of my fav's & "Beauty in the Beast" & "Digital Moonscapes" are both cool visions both have great feeling too of fun & great energies that's a different soundscape to my usual palette but I thoroughly enjoy em.
Happy Birthday.. 80th, Wendy Carlos. Thanks have many more.
Tron was not Wendy's last film work though; she worked on at least two more feature-lenght films
in the '80s and '90s - 'Split second' (1991 - score cancelled midway through) and 'Woundings' (1998).
The.selections from WOUNDINGS, included on RLT are terrific.
Is the film available on DVD?
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I have always been a tremendous fan of Tron, as well as her work on A Clockwork Orange, and non-film works like Digital Moonscapes.
I still find it very sad and frustrating that, during the 1980s -- the decade when synthesizer scores were most en vogue -- one of the most important pioneers of electronic music was mostly ignored by filmmakers.
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I have always been a tremendous fan of Tron, as well as her work on A Clockwork Orange, and non-film works like Digital Moonscapes.
I still find it very sad and frustrating that, during the 1980s -- the decade when synthesizer scores were most en vogue -- one of the most important pioneers of electronic music was mostly ignored by filmmakers.
Not sure if she was ignored or wasn't she wasn't pursuing film projects.
But, she didn't have the pop background of the other synth specialists . That.might have worked against her.
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But, she didn't have the pop background of the other synth specialists .
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Like rock stars such as Maurice Jarre?
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But, she didn't have the pop background of the other synth specialists .
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Like rock stars such as Maurice Jarre?
Bad example. He was a symphonic composer.
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But, she didn't have the pop background of the other synth specialists .
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Like rock stars such as Maurice Jarre?
Bad example. He was a symphonic composer.
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