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
You repeat things because they're like your personal obsessions
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.
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.
Composition has almost always been solitary.
As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
I suppose I was affected by raw sounds and timbres more than a lot of other composers. Had I been involved with orchestral composing, I think the aspect that would have most endeared me to that field would have been the orchestration.
It's best to incorporate a broadly eclectic point of view, and let whatever moves you be your inspiration.
What is full of redundancy or formula is predictably boring. What is free of all structure or discipline is randomly boring. In between lies art.
A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.