American composer, engineer, inventor and genre creator Wendy Carlos is one of the most innovative figures in the world of synthesizers and electronic music. After studying physics and music at Brown ...

“Loki” composer Natalie Holt (“Fever Dream,” “Victoria”) immediately knew that she wanted the sliding, spacey eeriness of the theremin to musically convey the God of Mischief (Tom Hiddleston) trapped ...

You may not have any idea who Wendy Carlos is or what her groundbreaking debut album sounds like. You might not be familiar with the very strange musical instrument she helped introduce to the world ...

When Wendy Carlos—then, before an operation, known as Walter Carlos—released Switched-On Bach, a 1968 recording of the composer's music arranged for the Moog synthesizer, it expressed a side of Bach's ...

Wendy Carlos at work in her New York City recording studio, 1979. (Photo by Leonard M. DeLessio/Corbis via Getty Images) Wendy Carlos would hate the way I’ve written about her. For decades, the ...

Petras’ win deserves all the fanfare it’s getting today. But as we celebrate her achievement, let’s also honor Wendy Carlos, who won three Grammys in 1970 for her debut album Switched-On Bach, nine ...

Few recordings change the way the world listens to music, but “Switched-On Bach” must be counted among them. When the album was released in late 1968, it quickly became the bestselling classical ...

Wendy Carlos (born November 14, 1939) is an American musician and composer best known for her electronic music and film scores. Born and raised in Rhode Island, Carlos studied physics and music at ...