Tune of the Week: Wendy Carlos

Wendy Carlos is an electronic music producer whose early works helped gain public awareness and acceptance of the form. Her “Switched On…” series translated classical music works into electronic music pieces and were a huge commercial hit. Later, she worked with Stanley Kubrick to create haunting soundtracks to his classic films “A Clockwork Orange” and “The Shining”. She is also a transgender pioneer, having started her transition in 1968. Frustratingly, there is precious little of her musical output on Youtube, but there are a goodly amount of interview where she speaks of her process: