Hey Wendy, we love you no matter what you looked like. We really wish you would put your music back on the market and keep better in touch with us, so that fans can once again can enjoy your great art.

@KRAFTWERK2K6

3 жыл бұрын

I support this message!

@chris_htepo

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@ventoilin5938

3 жыл бұрын

she is like 80

@234cheech

3 жыл бұрын

@@ventoilin5938 shes prod dead

@234cheech

3 жыл бұрын

@Fremglerk thanks

came for the sideburns, stayed for the best explanation of a synthesizer I've ever seen

@i.t.577

3 жыл бұрын

Lol same. She puts all of the modern "experts" to shame with her masterful and amazing simple explanation of such a difficult thing to explain. That's the mark of a true GENIUS.

@MikkelGrumBovin

3 жыл бұрын

Came for the music stayed for the sideburns

@smonson2

3 жыл бұрын

Fun fact, they're fake sideburns and she's wearing a wig in order to pass as male due to anxiety.

@scruff921

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

@scruff921

3 жыл бұрын

@@MikkelGrumBovin my guy x

"It's quite simple," she says standing in front of a massive wall of dials and cords with two keyboards at the bottom

@Therealdamuski

2 жыл бұрын

It’s simple in a way that no one knows how to use them. You just keep pluggin in things and adjusting knobs til you get a sound that you like.

@gingganggoolie

2 жыл бұрын

Explaining transition be like

@B1SCOOP

2 жыл бұрын

It's not rocket science, unlike programming a FM synth.

@rfichokeofdestiny

Жыл бұрын

Well, the basics of it actually are pretty simple. There’s just a lot of basics put together here and it can appear overwhelming if you’re not used to it.

@surkey5055

4 ай бұрын

@@rfichokeofdestiny exactly, the actual principle behind it is simple, you just need to be familiar with the layout

“She composed the score to two Stanley Kubrick films, A Clockwork Orange (1971) and The Shining (1980), and for Tron (1982) for Walt Disney Productions.” -from her Wikipedia page. That’s fucking nuts. What an accomplished artist.

@gabrielwong9063

9 күн бұрын

She is incredible, proud trans woman pioneer

@user-gl9gf7bm6q

5 күн бұрын

Wow 👌 good to have more backstory what a legend

@pluralizor2957

2 күн бұрын

I knew it sounded familiar some reason thank you

@pluralizor2957

Күн бұрын

@@pocoxiaomi5182 There's a difference between a women who appreciates suites and doesn't care to identify as male understanding science and that, but yes, she clearly was a lesbian lol

@pocoxiaomi5182

Күн бұрын

No, no nuts anymore ...

It's crazy seeing her mention white noise like nobody knows what it is, and it makes sense cause people probably didn't know what it was at the time! So cool

@InfernalPasquale

2 ай бұрын

What do you mean they didn't know? I'm pretty sure they knew it's statistical and mathematical properties?

@eldiablo7862

2 ай бұрын

We knew exactly what it was and it was on every tv channel after they went off the air till returning in the early morning.

@InfernalPasquale

2 ай бұрын

@@eldiablo7862 You are confusing simple white noise with the cosmic microwave background

@daroob

2 ай бұрын

I’m willing to bet most people now don’t know exactly what white noise is other than a sound that comes out of a speaker.

@BennyAscent

Ай бұрын

You know that TV static is only, like... 1% cmbr, right?

In just under 4 minutes Wendy put the fundamentals of synthesizers into more comprehensible terms than I’ve ever heard before

@CreNativeFosho

3 жыл бұрын

I honestly think that the people now a days all want to “show off and prove” how much they know, drawing out explanations and tones of condemnation that are condescending, and this fantastic being of Wendy Carlos is just explaining it how it is in her mind

@ResidentRemixer

3 жыл бұрын

I've understood far more here than anything else about this subject

@digiquo8143

3 жыл бұрын

@@CreNativeFosho I think it's probably more that most of what he's talking about here has been abstracted into tons of different tools and features that accomplish the same thing, but in a far more user-friendly environment that doesn't provide much intuition into what's actually happening. Much like how high-level programming such as C++ uses many keywords that make it "easy" to use, but don't necessarily aid in understanding what's actually happening at the machine code level post compilation.

@AlejandroShredderDJ

3 жыл бұрын

I thought I was the only one. I just understood how those waves work

@johnlime1469

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly this.

"You have to start with something pretty simple" *Camera pans to cables everywhere*

@citylights8678

3 жыл бұрын

Ikr that thing is the size of a bookcase

@panicfarm9874

3 жыл бұрын

@@citylights8678 it is a bookcase

@richardlloyd2589

3 жыл бұрын

@@panicfarm9874 ....swaps door signs back over on and .

@cj0986

2 жыл бұрын

That was “simple” in those days.

@grahamparsons1070

2 ай бұрын

😂

“If you can’t explain it to a five year old, you don’t really understand it.” She explained it perfectly. What a legend. Also I literally had no idea she was transitioning, I saw the sideburns and the suit, shrugged, and said “eh, it was the 70’s.”

@fasterpcp1

2 ай бұрын

You had no idea the person called Wendy, wearing a suit and sideburns i still can't grow at 53 was transitioning. You're either really stupid or you think everyone else is, do better

@gabrielladavidson2938

Ай бұрын

Same lol, didn't even question it 😂

@sforza209

Ай бұрын

Misuse of the word literally.

@MatthewGill-nv4tb

Ай бұрын

​@sforza209 no she's actually STILL transitioning

@MatthewGill-nv4tb

Ай бұрын

@@NowhereNN no

I just love all of this. The sounds, the analog tech, the cables and knobs, the explanation, the dressing and the hair style. Oh yes, the 70s were some quite funny years

@galaxybiscuit

2 ай бұрын

Peak style clearly

@AlexDMC

2 ай бұрын

I also knew he had knob from the first moment

@The_Establishment_Is_Satanic

20 күн бұрын

@@AlexDMC 😆 Facts.

“Very smooth, very flute like” *BeEeEeEeEeEp*

@robertplues4661

2 жыл бұрын

More like the life sopport machine has just flat lined

@0niKingu5ama

2 жыл бұрын

"TeEeEeEeEeEeT!!!" 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

@stiffyBlicky

2 жыл бұрын

lmao

@StuffOffYouStuff

2 жыл бұрын

LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Best comment

@janiellawinchestra1838

2 жыл бұрын

I read this while he said it at the same

Wendy Carlos is the one who composed the soundtrack to Tron and I believe A Clockwork Orange. Amazing how she was able to explain something that really is fairly technical in terms that just about everyone can understand.

@tangenty6987

2 жыл бұрын

AND The Shining

@michaelshields7777

2 жыл бұрын

And those pork chop sideburns look just fabulous too, 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@fstover5208

2 жыл бұрын

'Wendy' composed very little music for Clockwork Orange. He/She mostly arranged/transcribed of other composers' work (Beethoven, Purcell, etc.) Kubrick liked to use music in public domain because he was a tightwad.

@MrThefrederic

2 жыл бұрын

Oh man, when she was playing it at the end I was thinking i’m getting stanley kubrick vibes here. Good to know.

@WightKnight

2 жыл бұрын

@@fstover5208 The compositions would have been in the public domain meaning Wendy didn't have to pay a lisence holder to recompose them. But her recordings wouldn't have been public domain. As for Kubrick, it's less that he was a tightwad and just barely even had funding for A Clockwork Orange, it was a very cheap film for what it is

Millions of songs now exist using this, especially virtual instruments, its oscillation. insanely beautiful

I've never been jealous in my whole life, 44+ years now, until today. Those sideburns. Hell I'd call em mutton chops. But in all seriousness this is what KZread was meant for. The preservation of gems like this. Beautiful video. Very informative.

@fredfrederickson

Ай бұрын

They are not real unfortunately

@toccandocreacanaleulterior176

Ай бұрын

​@@fredfredericksoni hope so☠☠

@SirPano85

18 күн бұрын

​@@fredfrederickson I thought they were made from her hairs...

Holy shit they made fl studio into a real thing

@arfansthename

3 жыл бұрын

yes lol

@kiddcarmine_

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@Arctic_silverstreak

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao yeah

@fulsame1

3 жыл бұрын

Think about how miraculous digital synths and mixing software is that all of that ANALOG HARDWARE can be condensed into a microchip you can stick in your pocket.

@flamencoprof

3 жыл бұрын

Correction, FL Studio made the Moog into a digital thing. Let's give precedence to the correct source. Actually, I hope I didn't do a whoosh with your humour? It's hard to tell when someone's channel doesn't have any content.

_The Shining. TRON. A Clockwork Orange._ Each one of those is epic, and Carlos composed all three. Genius.

@jammydodger7065

3 жыл бұрын

her soundtrack for the shining really made that film work

@nodrogdivad

3 жыл бұрын

I was looking for the comment specifying what I think I already knew... just listening to the end of this video, I immediately thought of the synth version of Beethoven from ACO.

@kimjones600

3 жыл бұрын

ntm "Switched-On Bach," which she's recording there. that album came out & came home when I was 5. dad, b.1917, was a huge fan.

@JunkBondTrader

3 жыл бұрын

clockwork orange is one of my favourite scores ever! Cool. It had such an artistic, yet eerie vibe to it.

@madarab37

3 жыл бұрын

Composed TRON? I...I did not know that.

As a sideburn, I encourage this type of behaviour

@aliahxpiano

23 күн бұрын

the sideburns are fake and the hair is a wig lmao. the bbc wanted to make her look like a guy XD

@davidswanson5669

5 күн бұрын

How does a woman grow such a thing? Looks fake.

Tron would not have worked without you. You were the soul with the je ne sais quoi of soundtracks.

Check out her Wikipedia page, it's fascinating. Not only was she one of the first electronic music composers, she even contributed to the Moog synthesizer's design, collaborating with Robert Moog and offering suggestions for improvements, most of which went into the final product. She's genius

@Really_is_all_about_the_Bass

3 ай бұрын

Don’t forget also the first woman with crazy ass side burns.

@jamiesmart9016

3 ай бұрын

It's guy Martin 😂

@caspernicus5822

3 ай бұрын

@@jamiesmart9016She is not

@TheMadMonk9

3 ай бұрын

"He"

@tryax811

3 ай бұрын

​@@caspernicus5822he obviously is

You know you’re a great teacher when a person with no musical background like myself can have a general understanding of what you’re doing after a brief video.

@thisisaname5589

2 жыл бұрын

I am just wondering why this weird woman has sideburns. And is wearing a suit. Very degenerate, very strange, very distracting.

@AlanCanon2222

2 жыл бұрын

YES, it's a four minute master class in musical synthesis. Even in this digital age, the algorithms that generate electronic music are entirely based on the analog models that Ms Carlos demonstrates in this incredibly succinct, well explicated tutorial. Far be it from me to knock the digital revolution (I'm a computer programmer as well as musician), but when sound meets our eardrums, it does so in the analog domain. I grew up on the Clockwork Orange soundtrack and Switched On Bach, Switched On Brandenburgs, and before that, Gershon Kingsley's "Music to Moog By" and "First Moog Quartet" LPs that my dad had. Electronic musical instruments are legitimate musical instruments, and the maestros of the electronic domain have names like Theremin, Rockmore, Moog, Kingsley, and Carlos. If someone disagrees, well, they are disagreeing with the invention of artificial musical instruments like the bone flutes we find in archaeological digs from 40,000 years ago or whenever it was. Music is music and human beings, it turns out, will go to incredible lengths to make it however they can. Thank you, Ms Wendy Carlos.

@nymboi6865

2 жыл бұрын

@@thisisaname5589 who asked

@sol2835

2 жыл бұрын

@@thisisaname5589 lol you’re so insecure

@vtcabbit

2 жыл бұрын

@@thisisaname5589 oh boo hoo cry me a river

This fundamentally changed my understanding of the moog synth. Thank you, Wendy.

Absolute pioneering genius with the ability to relate that to others and teach them!! Plus those cuff links looked sweet!

I like how she just casually demonstrates all this stuff about production when lots of people take exhaustive amounts of time explaining this.

@MrSoso1050

3 жыл бұрын

He*

@KillTheJester

3 жыл бұрын

It's one of the most concise ways I've heard someone talk about the basics of synthesis. She put it into words anyone could understand.

@burnerdgaf5222

3 жыл бұрын

Einstein said it best: “if you can’t explain it to a six year old you don’t understand it yourself.” She has a very deep knowledge of sound design, you can tell by the brief and concise description of a vast subject.

@DavidVercettiMovies

3 жыл бұрын

I learned more about meaning of filters and envelope here than when I was studying synths

@sethmorris4767

3 жыл бұрын

@@holidaycomplex who’s being transphobic? What are you talking about... calm down puss

Wendy would be the ideal music teacher. Breaks exactly what a synthesizer is down so anyone can understand it. Mark of a genius, really.

@natfoote4967

3 жыл бұрын

I have a motto, you don't really understand something until you can explain it to a five-year-old.

@natfoote4967

3 жыл бұрын

@@revokdaryl1 That's not an experience I have to imagine. People remember the past fondly; they hang onto the good memories and try to forget the bad. There were no "good old days" and kids have always suffered grim, existential thoughts. The difference is today we hear about all the bad things because of the internet. That's actually a good thing because now we can do something about those problems and not ignore them. Being able to help people is a pretty good reason to live.

@natfoote4967

3 жыл бұрын

@@revokdaryl1 There is no call to apologize, young brother. I don't know you from Adam but I do care how you're doing and where you go from here. You are part of the world I live in, so my care for you is a matter of enlightened self-interest: It's no good living in an ivory tower surrounded by a slum. Remember the good things your parents taught you and carry those things forward, enact them as your parents would. Then, the effects of their being still remain, like ripples from a stone. Don't worry about being great. That's a pop culture fad. Just be good. That is an accomplishment you can achieve, and it is actually the more important one.

@kkenny

3 жыл бұрын

@@natfoote4967 I don't know who you are, and I'm not the original poster, but this is exactly what I needed to hear today. Thank you for your kindness and wisdom.

@natfoote4967

3 жыл бұрын

@@kkenny I am here to serve, and it is my pleasure.

I remembered a lot of this information from Delia Derbyshire's video about the different sound waves. You can clearly hear some of the precursors to post-1980s electronic music here. These folks were ahead of their time.

I didn't expect the president of Argentina to sound like this

@acemanhomer1

3 ай бұрын

Dude......was just on my way to leave this comment 🤣

@The_Establishment_Is_Satanic

20 күн бұрын

@taylorsukoshi6126 😆

If you can find her album "Secrets of Synthesis," get it. She gives the most accurate description of additive synthesis I've ever heard: "The good news about additive synthesis is that you can control every aspect of a sound, the bad news is that you must control every aspect of a sound."

@leatherandtactel

2 жыл бұрын

Her? She?

@sapphire6293

2 жыл бұрын

@@leatherandtactel Yes.

@theswissmiss69

2 жыл бұрын

@@leatherandtactel yos.

@leatherandtactel

2 жыл бұрын

This person has sideburns, how is that possible?

@theswissmiss69

2 жыл бұрын

@@leatherandtactel she’s a trans woman.

*makes the first wub* "A trombone quality, quite strange" 3:00 Don't worry Wendy, we found countless uses for the wubs - many thanks

@thoyo

2 жыл бұрын

wub step

@KumaBean

2 жыл бұрын

@thoyo 🤣 👌

@oivinf

2 жыл бұрын

She said "Has almost a trumpet quality, or trombone quality in _this range_"

@mikuhatsunegoshujin

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for letting me know what the "wub" sounds similar to. Alter a Trumpet VST to make them.

@ibanezgomezangeldavid9649

2 жыл бұрын

I never thought sylenth 0.5 was so big

Wendy and her music are beautiful.

I saw this video for the first time in my teens when I first wanted to play/make electronic music. Wendy taught me the basics and we've never met

Start of video: can't unsee the sideburns A few minutes later: the sideburns are _irrelevant,_ this is brilliance

@CamelBlue777

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha my thoughts exactly!!

@jarzantarzanful

3 жыл бұрын

Legend has it those sideburns were reused as pubic hair.

@themav3ricm3thodd91

3 жыл бұрын

those are legit lambchopz

@abracadab1497

3 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure she is wearing a wig over her real hair and put the chops on to be eclectic and cool which she succeeded in doing completely

@thomascarcary9408

3 жыл бұрын

I agree

Wendy, that is one of the most clear and succint non-calculus descriptions of musical tone synthesis I've ever heard. Well done!

@Tlaloc_D1

3 жыл бұрын

I believe she had synesthesia

@Retfie719

3 жыл бұрын

@@Tlaloc_D1 she just studied enough physics while also being a talented musician, composer and - this case - and educator

@Craig-dv3ji

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed! Very clear.

@TheNinetySecond

3 жыл бұрын

@@Retfie719 She was (is?) a huuuge nerd with everything sound. She actually worked on the implementation of stereo sound in consumer products, which is fucking huge. I came to know her when researching quadrophonic surround sound, of which she has been a proponent for years. As far as I know, her mixing and mastering credentials are also outstanding, although she's most well known for her synthesizer work.

She did the Main Street Electrical Parade @ Disneyland. I loved watching it at the end of a day there growing up in SoCal in the 80's & 90's.

@The_Establishment_Is_Satanic

20 күн бұрын

*he

@KeksimusMaximus

15 күн бұрын

​@@The_Establishment_Is_Satanicthat's a crossdressing woman with fake sideburns, dude She has ovaries, haha

@josephreynolds1220

12 күн бұрын

Bet that was great.

@KryptnGaming

4 күн бұрын

He*

It's like watching Bob Ross of the synth world.

@dont.ripfuller6587

2 жыл бұрын

Noice

@troyc4841

2 жыл бұрын

Bobbi Ross

@jadedandbitter

2 жыл бұрын

@@troyc4841 nah he was still Walter back then

@seyyednaqvi6760

2 жыл бұрын

Why is everyone the Bob Ross of everything?

@Minihood31770

2 жыл бұрын

@@jadedandbitter generally it's considered polite to refer to someone as how they identify now, even when talking about before they came out publicly.

Wendy: "Okay, we're in tune." Moog Modular (to self): "At least in this octave..." 😄

@TheSideProject

3 жыл бұрын

lol could you explain?

@crominion6045

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheSideProject ​ On an analog synth, particularly an older one, when you tune the VCOs they will be in tune in the part of the keyboard where you tuned from, but have a tendency to get progressively out of tune the further away you get from that point. Let's say you do a standard tuning of the first A above Middle C to 440 (A440). Your keys surrounding that A key will be in tune, but as you move up or down the keyboard from that point the notes will start to drift slightly out of tune. There are ways manufacturers use to alleviate this as much as they can (tracking), but these adjustments can drift over time as well and need to be recalibrated by opening up the unit.

@yellowmustard7482

3 жыл бұрын

Underated comment

@TheSideProject

3 жыл бұрын

@@crominion6045 I get it. Something like that used to happen to me with a Pianica

@bojangprodoktschns5428

3 жыл бұрын

@Cro Minion: The Moog modular was built until 1980 and she also was Bob's assistant, so it is quite possible that the one she is playing here is brand new. Of course that still doesn't mean that it can't go out of tune.

I haven't heard a good Pawtucket accent like that in years. This brings back memories.

I learned about Wendy Carlos in Film school- we watched this in our intro to sound class. Always remembered how clearly she explained this all & loved her style!

This is the first time I’ve actually understood the concepts of old synth systems.

@neonraytracer8846

3 жыл бұрын

These are the concepts of any synthesizer! Also software ones

@superultrathanksmom3845

3 жыл бұрын

@@neonraytracer8846 Not any synthesizer, this is an example of subtractive synthesis. There's a lot more interesting forms of sound synthesis(Additive, Frequency Modulation, Granular, et cetera) Modern subtractive synths are also different als they have more complex sound generation (for example wavetable oscillators) and more complex filtering (for example comb filters) Sound synthesis and sound manipulation is a beautiful field and I fully encourage anyone interested in sound amd music to take the plunge and learn more about it! There is a great free and open-source synthesizer named "Surge" that is amazing. A quick google for "Surge open source synth" will find it for sure.

@neonraytracer8846

3 жыл бұрын

@@superultrathanksmom3845 Okay I perhaps should have phrased it as the basics of any subtractive synthesis... But I still think my comment is somewhat valid for modular synthesis. Thanks for clarifying for me, though.

Her voice is so soothing to me

@kal9728

2 жыл бұрын

it is I love listening to it

@Frip36

Жыл бұрын

you like it thin and high, yes?

@georgepierson4920

Жыл бұрын

So, you like guys who think that they are girls, huh?

@kal9728

Жыл бұрын

@@georgepierson4920 get out of here, man

@Frip36

Жыл бұрын

@@georgepierson4920 We're all pretty much him.

A beautiful person and great artist ❤

the sideburns.. we simply don't boymode like we used to.

@TheBawbSaget

3 күн бұрын

it's a man, no shit

@PsychorGames

3 күн бұрын

your comment made me lol out loud

3:29 Of course Wendy would give us *A Clockwork Orange* sounds. The movie could not exist without her soundtrack. They are so one and the same to me.

Such passion! A pioneer of the modern age in more ways than one.

What a beautiful machine and an incredible artist. It’s insane to think we can do things like this on a single screen now. I know we have physical and modular synths today but this is still so cool especially for 54 years ago.

Imagine what it must have been like to hear this stuff without the baggage of 40-odd years of synth sounds being commonplace - let alone as a musician at a point in history when people were getting a bit bored by guitar-only pop music. You could create any sound you want from a bunch of lab hardware :-o. Let's also appreciate what a damn fine educator Wendy is here.

@ArielArkenax

3 жыл бұрын

As a child of the sixties her Switched On Bach album blew my and friends minds age 13/14 and completely steered my course in life toward synthesisers.

@crominion6045

3 жыл бұрын

I was born in '70 and had a similar experience in '76 when I first heard Ricochet by Tangerine Dream. My little 6-year-old mind was totally blown. I couldn't imagine what strange devices they were using to create those otherworldly sounds. The album actually scared me at the time, so I didn't start listening to it again until I was about 10 or 11. 😄 However, it would then go on to change my life and lead me to a lifelong love of electronic music. 👍

@stolenname94

3 жыл бұрын

I still think synths are super cool and will have a place for years to come

@shinmadd3517

3 жыл бұрын

Brexit means brexit

@jakemertz2660

3 жыл бұрын

I think about that a lot too... just imagining what it was like to be a person hearing a synth who had never heard a synth before... must’ve been magical.

Producers: Synthesis is too complicated to be explained in a simplified way. Wendy: Hold my patch cable!

@RizzlaBeatz

3 жыл бұрын

More like “hold my sideburns” lol

@jordanb.4514

3 жыл бұрын

insert generic template comment

@rrock2025

3 жыл бұрын

Me: ok

@WhatssupAlly

3 жыл бұрын

@@RizzlaBeatz well this vid is about music not her sideburns lol

Beautiful... Simplicity, music, freedom.

Just came across an original 1968 Switched On Bach LP at the local Goodwill. The disc is in good shape, the sleeve is beaten up and coming apart, but it’s still a keeper. Wendy Carlos Vangelis Keith Emerson Jean Michel-Jarre - Giants of the Synth Age

this is unironically a very good starting tutorial on how to do subtractive sound synthesis, for anyone who wants to make their own sounds it's all there, in this four minute clip - the basic oscillators, the filters, and the envelopes for controlling all of these good stuff from a synth legend

@JC20XX

2 жыл бұрын

100% If anyone asks me how my synths work this is the first thing I'd show them

@thechilledonion9313

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@ThatGuy-zw4le

2 жыл бұрын

wow, thanks for the tip

@wispa1a

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely she explains the basic waves. Day 1 synth work £20 saved

@KCJbomberFTW

2 жыл бұрын

Wait so why is she dressed like a guy?

When Wendy made “Switched-On Bach” there was no digital editing and no digital music. It was all analog, so editing was by cutting and splicing mag tape. It must have taken hundreds of hours of work to make her albums. An amazing creative woman. Dedication and genius. Her music helped me through university, almost 60 years ago now.

@tangyorange6509

3 жыл бұрын

Tape

@cartoonhanks1708

3 жыл бұрын

Trans woman? Or regular woman with fake facial hair? I an genuinely perplexed.

@mariuspoppFM

3 жыл бұрын

@@cartoonhanks1708 Technically she was still a male here but her androginy was rather impressive already.

@fredschmitt456

3 жыл бұрын

@@cartoonhanks1708 "Her" real name is Walter Carlos. And that's what his name was, when this was filmed, and when he composed the score for 'A Clockwork Orange'. Simple sex change late 70s, no big fuss. I used to own a record still labeled "Walter Carlos" - my oh my, why did I not keep it? Would probably be worth a bunch today.

@montseservin1306

3 жыл бұрын

@@fredschmitt456 ok so she's a woman. Got it. Thanks

Fun fact: one of the first if not the first polyphonic synthesizer was invented in 1938. It was made by the Hammond organ company and was called the Novachord. It looked similar to a square piano, but took more of its appearance from the electric organs. The synth had LFOs, filters, an attack and release, much like synths that came 30 years later. It had a volume control pedal, similar to the electric organs Hammond made too.

I am privileged to know about input waves and filters as a MechE, and in light of that the fact she knows how all of this works, and used it in an industry-changing product, is really impressive.

All of us who sit before a digital board in the control room should bow to this woman. We punch a few buttons, move a few sliders, and key in some presets from our libraries. Wendy meanwhile was stringing patch cords, multitracking, overdubbing, and hoping the music didn't disappear in analog noise.

@jgil1966

2 жыл бұрын

This is a guy

@meelsky

2 жыл бұрын

Jonathan Gil Santillan No it isn’t, she’s a woman.

@meneerlagerwaard2047

2 жыл бұрын

Not to mention she's doing all of this on TAPE removing yet another factor of assumed luxury like distortion, changing your mind on the levels of any single little part of a drum kit, punch ins, and altogether stable playback rates, clock synchronization, and with both, pitch. What an absolute feat this synth revolution was. Incredible.

@naysayerck5971

4 ай бұрын

​@@jgil1966no it is not

@richinoable

3 ай бұрын

​@@jgil1966triiiiiiggerrrrrrrrrrrd fwad

I work as a welder for a living and find it incredibly fascinating to see how much of this technology I use on my welding machine. I can change my sign wave form from a crisp square wave to a soft square wave and into triangle wave. I also can adjust frequency from as low as 20Hz up to 180Hz. I have pulse settings as low as 0.1 pps up to 120 pulses per second. I can control the delay the wave balance from positive to negative and back. I wish I had the ability to plug and play like this to see what other effects I could generate and manipulate my arc while welding various types and thicknesses of aluminum. Now that I’m thinking of it, Moog should consider partnering with Miller or Lincoln and see what they could offer each other in both fields. I love technology.

@Persun_McPersonson

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, that's actually really neat!

@qwopiretyu

2 жыл бұрын

Musical welds

@gatorbuilt

2 жыл бұрын

Radio Frequency welding is a real technique.

@golkor9879

2 жыл бұрын

Everything is connected. That's some Tesla shit

@selewachm

2 жыл бұрын

I worked for a company that made valves. Big ones. Like huge sheets of steel welding together then cut apart into bodies for the internal valve parts. Those welders were awesome!

Got an urge to watch clockwork orange towards the end and only realized why after. That was somewhere deep in the back of my mind from like 20 years ago.

All snuggled in my bed, I use to listen to the Switched on Bach record at grandmas house as a kid! Perfection!

also a legendary total eclipse photographer. The things that some people can fit into a life is staggering....and inspiring.

@mizuko6132

3 ай бұрын

A time before internet. People used to have deep fascinations and hobbies.

@quantumblur_3145

3 ай бұрын

​@@mizuko6132some folks still manage, but I know I don't

@pbxkreal

3 ай бұрын

​@@mizuko6132💀

@scobeymeister1

3 ай бұрын

​@@mizuko6132Nah she's transgender and autistic. We're still here and we still do this. The furry community (which is overwhelmingly queer and neurodivergent) built and continues to maintain our digital infrastructure. It's so universal that there are in-jokes that you get your hormone replacement prescription and your computer science degree as a set. It's not the phones! She's literally just built different. Signed, a transgender and autistic person with deep hobbies

@user-to1su2iy4d

3 ай бұрын

​@@mizuko6132 Projection to feel better about oneself is definitely a take

Did Wendy explain these Moog Synthesizers were hand built one of a kind electronic wonders? I listened to these in the 70's. They are incredible!!!!!!

@Praetoria113-zm3no

2 жыл бұрын

Correct, in 2012 I got to be on stage with the number "1 Moog built right after Moog died. Tribute at a musical festival in Pennsylvania in Gettysburg.

@francoisejohnson5492

2 жыл бұрын

You pretty much needed an electronic expert to calibrate those old 901 oscillators. Moog was a genius!

@cathiwalker3852

2 жыл бұрын

I remember when our band Dillinger got the first one. Our sound man, Jim was a genius.

Fascinating on many levels.

I can't imagine how different music would sound today if there weren't such very smart, creative, and capable people who came before us. Its probably corny and cliche but I absolutely marvel at shit like this. There's lifetimes worth of a life's work all around us, and fascinating people too. This is good weed, too.

@audreyazwell

2 жыл бұрын

You're not trippin imo, synthesizers really are an absolute modern marvel to behold to this day.

@drioko

2 жыл бұрын

Would be the same because creative people are not only on the past.

@matrixate

2 жыл бұрын

They spent less time using meaningless apps...like Tiktards today.

@thepermman

2 жыл бұрын

@@drioko we'd be in a different tech tree. Creative people only can focus on so many things at a time. Change someones day 50 years ago and we have a totally different world 50 years later.

@SatansSimgma

2 жыл бұрын

Are you being ironic? Or ha e you just not heard music in 20 years?

Fucking awesome. She is so brilliant. That machine scored two of my favorite Kubrick films and her music was soooo good, moody and way ahead of it’s time which really helped create the mood of those two films.

@dmj7180

Жыл бұрын

she?

@saigey

Жыл бұрын

@@dmj7180 yup

@Piespys

3 ай бұрын

@@sonnyplourde90 transitioned

@derelictgbdavidlovo107

3 ай бұрын

@@sonnyplourde90she’s a trans woman, this was filmed before she was out

@SVENY

3 ай бұрын

@@sonnyplourde90She is a trans woman, and your comment is very disrespectful lmao

Wendy Carlos was a gifted composer and educator. Respect for doing the work at this time in history

I still feel kubrick gets all the credit where clockwork orange would be less than half the film it is without Wendy's iconic score. Its left a lasting impression on my entire life.

@Marcus-nt8yx

2 жыл бұрын

So the actors don’t count? How about Beethoven?

@pearz420

2 жыл бұрын

You're giving her credit right now...

@violenceisfun991

2 жыл бұрын

The music in the film is great, but i think the camera work and the colour schemes are the most memorable part of the film

@Marcus-nt8yx

2 жыл бұрын

@@violenceisfun991 i agree

@jasonjacoby

2 жыл бұрын

I could say the same thing about Tron! 💜

Because of records like this, future generations hundreds of years from now will be able to look back on "ancient" technology in the context of when it was cutting edge. Imagine being able to watch Orville Wright explain how to fly an airplane, or Sir Francis Drake commanding a sailing ship.

@ellenorbjornsdottir1166

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! Although I'm unsure that Drake invented sailing :P

@Tjalve70

3 жыл бұрын

@@ellenorbjornsdottir1166 Eiko never said Drake invented sailing. He just said sailing was cutting edge technology. There is a lot of technology that has vanished, because it's not of use anymore.

@juanmarcelo589

3 жыл бұрын

Wright brothers explaining how to use a catapult to put a plane on air meanwhile Santos Dumont explaining how to make a airplane fly by itselt

@tedmerr

3 жыл бұрын

on an episode of ALF he describes electronic music as "Ancient history" when working on making a rock video for Lynn

@botmw7241

3 жыл бұрын

deez nuts

I played Switched on Bach until it was ruined on my turntable and then I replaced it with a tape cassette... and then a CD... loved it so much!

Loved Wendy's work on "Tron".

As a child of the 80s, these sounds were iconic and normalized. Now they just sound creepy... And I love it.

@privateprivate1865

2 жыл бұрын

I couldn't agree more. I'm actually really interested in '70s and '80s synth soundtracks. I got tired of all the crappy music nowadays and bored with listening to the same old favorites from the '80s that I started looking into some of my favorite horror movie soundtracks. One of my favorites is near dark from Tangerine dream. I like the soundtrack from creep show I like soundtrack from Dawn of the Dead. If you have any you could recommend I'm all ears.

@dirt420

2 жыл бұрын

@@privateprivate1865 youre not looking enough if you think todays music is crappy, look up domi, jd beck, puma blue, spill tab, tyler the creator, isaiah sharkey i could go on and on.

@EliChristman

2 жыл бұрын

Were you ever into Michael Iceberg (Iseberg). He headlined Tomorrowland in Disney in the 70s and 80s. A 20+ minute clip is even on KZread of an entire concert and him explaining the machine he built (but not in such detail as this video). Man, that video gets the feels moving for me. :-)

@The_Touring_Jedi

2 жыл бұрын

I remember that synth sound when I heard first time Sweet Dreams from Eurythmics in 1985 my mother was listening...woow that sound was amazing...

@brianregan75

2 жыл бұрын

The 70s was a creepy, dark decade overall. So these medieval synth sounds suit it just perfectly :)

People today don't realize how much painstaking work went into creating a Moog machine music track. With today's hardware and software almost anyone can do it in an hour.

@nobodycares5981

3 жыл бұрын

how so

@dannygjk

3 жыл бұрын

@@nobodycares5981 I mean a person with music training and/or experience composing of course not someone with zero training or experience. I've watched people in KZread videos do things quickly using software on a modern piece of equipment and/or a computer. Using the Moog machine vs what is available today is like night and day. Many things have become easier due to computer's hardware and software. Another example is creating animation - cartoons for example.

@xenasBS

3 жыл бұрын

It's amazing, isn't it? The democratization of art! That said I'd still love to play around with a Moog someday. Analogue equipment always has a quality you just can't capture with the software equivelents I'm used to.

@MirekFe

3 жыл бұрын

@@xenasBS m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/qXqb1sF6orrVZtY.html

@MirekFe

3 жыл бұрын

@@xenasBS _Analogue equipment always has a quality you just can't capture with the software equivelents...._ The Yamaha Reface CS, begs to differ. ↑↑↑

Fascinating. I always loved the music from Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange film, but this is the first time I've ever encountered any film documentation of the creator of that soundtrack.

That's the most 70's anime hair I've ever seen!

@Titaniumjake1472

3 жыл бұрын

Legit sideburns thicker then myn

@EternalResonance

3 жыл бұрын

Conan Obrian agrees

@0228christian

3 жыл бұрын

Looking like Lupin the Third.

@Nomzai

3 жыл бұрын

Anime sucks.

@0228christian

3 жыл бұрын

@@Nomzai look out folks, we've got an edgy boi here!

the sideburns are a goddamn power move edit: I just liked the sideburns...

@TemenosL

3 жыл бұрын

She actually wasn't ready to come out, so wore a 'disguise' here.

@caveiradacaverna6713

3 жыл бұрын

Wish I looked half this cool with sideburns

@Philrc

3 жыл бұрын

@@TemenosL she wasn't gay, she was/is transgender

@candelacandela41

3 жыл бұрын

@@Philrc you can "come out" as trans too

@MiyaAhmed

3 жыл бұрын

@@candelacandela41 I think that's what they meant?

Not sure why i was recommended this video but mechanical synthesizers are very cool machines. I cant remember who it was when i first saw basically a video showcasing theirs, and it looked like a control panel out of an old school spacecraft. It was genuinely fascinating to watch music being made on it, (this was a modern day one btw)

wow love her

They way she's able to explain her craft in such a simple way is only testimony to her remarkable talent. What an absolute genius and treasure Wendy is!

@harkerroland9750

2 жыл бұрын

Wait... she????

@hrdwrd2570

2 жыл бұрын

@@harkerroland9750 She's transgender. Had not fully transitioned yet at that time I believe.

@christiensebastien2442

2 жыл бұрын

Look, I'm not saying she's not a marvel, but that was the most basic explanation of analog synthesis. No mastering of the craft required.

@Wisselink87

2 жыл бұрын

@@christiensebastien2442 That's the whole point, it may look basic to us now but don't forget this interview is over half a century old. The visionairy aspect of her work lies in grasping the potential of what was then alien to most people and using it to create and recreate works of art.

@nervousprophets6879

2 жыл бұрын

@@hrdwrd2570 medically wise, she was pretty far in at the time. Hence, the fake sideburns

Thank you guys for sharing! Wendy is 82 in 2022, but I hear is refusing interviews. Thank you so much for doing the Tron (1982) soundtrack. I've seen it over 600 times, but your soundtrack really helps to capture the digital to analog interface of the film from the audio to the video.

What an amazing person

Apart from all her talents she is her authentic self. The 70's seem kinder to authenticity than this present day. Hopefully we are celebrating this more in the future to come. An interview with Wendy would be wonderful and informative. Either way 🥂 Wendy, to you and yours.

It takes great intellect to not only use complex synthesizers to create music, but to also be able to effortlessly explain the fundamentals of how the damn thing works. Much respect to Ms. Carlos.

@ariesdane5876

3 жыл бұрын

They say there's a fine line between genius and insanity. I do love how she dressed like Bach though, and this whole video reminds me of the synthesized Beethoven soundtrack used in the movie A Clockwork Orange. Just goes to show that people in the 70's had access to way better drugs.

@sleebysyd

3 жыл бұрын

@@ariesdane5876 I may be remembering wrong, but I believe she did the soundtrack for A Clockwork Orange!

@tommyboy7598

3 жыл бұрын

i diont think it takes much intellect, but people say im a genius so i might be the guy who can do these things

The amount of hardware involved in making and recording early synth work is impressive. The minute the piece starts playing I think we're all right back to the 70's and BBC dramas and sci-fi with the Radiophonic Workshop.

@MikeSmith-tx2lp

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, check out Isao Tomita if you want to see some serious multitracked Moog.

@stevearkwright

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly - with *Delia Derbyshire*, the wonderful wizardess of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop!

@sicks6six

2 жыл бұрын

I stayed in maidavale near the BBC workshop.

@HighlanderNorth1

2 жыл бұрын

☑️ Yeah, and by the late 80s you could do all ^that and more with a keyboard and maybe 1 or 2 small components, each about the size of a standard AM/FM stereo receiver. My friend nearly died in a catastrophic car accident, but ended up getting the first of a 2 part settlement in 1989, my friend spent about $2,000 - -$2,500 of a near-death personal injury settlement on a basic, but good quality musical studio setup for his home. It was pretty much all Yamaha branded. It included a Yamaha keyboard, and a Yamaha digital effects processor, Yamaha drum machine, and a Yamaha 4-track recorder, along with the requisite (Yamaha)studio reference speakers. The combination of the keyboard and the effects processor provided the digitally sampled sounds of a myriad of different orchestral instruments, along with many of the same synthesizer sounds you'd expect to hear from ^these classic rock era synthesizers. Once you figured out how to competently operate that 4 piece home studio system, you could singlehandedly cobble together and record what would sound like 3, or 10, or 15 or 25+ separate musical instruments being played by just as many different musicians, but all by yourself! Now you can do much of that with just a computer with sound processing software installed! Until I'd first seen how recording studio equipment works, I wasn't aware how easy it was(is) for a big record company to 'manufacture' music. By that, I mean they can take any untalented person and make him or her(or ze or zir) sound like an ultra talented musician! In order to record songs with these multi-track recorders, you don't have to teach the person to play entire parts of a song at once. They can literally play and record just 1 note at a time, then cobble it all together into what sounds like an organic melody! It's why some "artists" sound talented on their albums, but they suck live! 🥴

@christopherconnors9258

2 жыл бұрын

agreed, being a synth musician/operator in the 60's and 70's might as well have been a trade haha

prehistoric Eurorack dinosaurs ! I love it... got a Behringer Poly D and love it (same original Moog scale of spread controls, a few 1/4" patch options... that I was actually able to afford).

what a legend and a bad ass. one of my heroes tbh

*Giorgio Moroder sees this.... the sound of the 80s exists, Daft Punk exists* Thank you Wendy.

@dom3827

2 жыл бұрын

Daft Punk exists no more

@sonicgoo1121

2 жыл бұрын

They existed. Therefore, they will exist forever. :)

@RashidLanie8

2 жыл бұрын

EnragedSephiroth.....Oh please, synthesis existed long before Wendy Carlos and was used long before she became famous using it. Monkees-1967, Weather Reports-Joe Zawinul-1970's, etc.....Though, I will concede that she definitely was a pioneer especially in adapting classical music to the synthesizer medium, as was Suzanne Ciani in the advertising world and in the concert hall space with her Buchla concerts in the 70's. And, btw, Giorgio Moroder, began using synthesizers in 1969. Next time do you homework before you pedal excitable falsehoods.

@kennethantonyjohn2708

2 жыл бұрын

I know the synthesiser…why don’t I use the synthesiser?

@nemome5837

2 жыл бұрын

Rubbish. Check the history of the synthesiser. You're welcome.

Hard to overstate her significance to electronic music

@DominusOminous

3 жыл бұрын

Impossible to overstate.

@otakumangastudios3617

3 жыл бұрын

Can someone please explain how she has sideburns?

@digiquo8143

3 жыл бұрын

@@otakumangastudios3617 he's a dude

@otakumangastudios3617

3 жыл бұрын

@@digiquo8143 you know they literally called the person wendy, right? I've never heard of a man named Wendy

@digiquo8143

3 жыл бұрын

@@otakumangastudios3617 "born Walter Carlos" from Wikipedia

crazy quality

The sideburns appear to be a from a square wave. Kidding aside, I appreciate coming across this vintage video and intro to sound synthesis. Love the sepia tone of the film, the fashion and the devices shown

@classicpontiac37

25 күн бұрын

For some strange reason I am doubting they are real.

@not_ever

19 күн бұрын

@@classicpontiac37 they aren’t real. Nor is the hair. She wore them as some kind of disguise to hide that she was trans. She also used makeup to fake stubble. Eventually she developed a fear of appearing in public for a while before coming out.

@classicpontiac37

19 күн бұрын

@@not_ever I'm shocked I tell you. Shocked. 😆

Crazy to think a gadget that fits in your pocket could easily simulate that synth like it's nothing, but back in 1970, it would've been extremely expensive and state-of-the-art. Well, and analogue, but you get the point.

@saintsataniko2116

2 жыл бұрын

That didn't occur to you years ago with your cell phone? They literally had supercomputers that took up the whole floor of a building that had less computing power than your iPhone.

@FreezyPop

2 жыл бұрын

@@saintsataniko2116 what does that have to so with the fact you can use a synth on your phone?

@Osamailyas

2 жыл бұрын

its impossible to produce analogue wave sound on your cell phone or even a computer

@Therealdamuski

2 жыл бұрын

No it can’t produce the same sound. Not even close. Modular synthesizer are still cutting edge technology

@geovani60624

2 жыл бұрын

@@Therealdamuski no

The secret of Wendy is that unlike 90% of KZread modular fans, she came from tne world of academia rather than the EDM scene. Even in 1970 she was not only a boss expert on this new field but had the college-bred credentials to teach it, and that distinctive engaging style of hers was already present. Today she would be an amazing TEDtalk presenter, if only she could be coaxed out of wherever she hides herself. (Let's run through a partial resume: Degrees in both music and physics, studied at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, worked as a professional engineer at a NYC recording studio, designed and built her own customized Ampex 8-track tape machine from spare parts, set up a state-of-the-art home recording studio when such a thing was unheard of, helped Bob Moog design several of the early Moog modules, jury rigged the first modern vocoder, pioneered ambient electronica, early adopter of digital synthesizers and other computer-based tools for non-avant garde music, advocate for alternate keyboard tunings...)

@Cola.Cube.

2 жыл бұрын

@Yongo Bazuk you should know alright, Lmfao.

@moogyboy6

2 жыл бұрын

@Yongo Bazuk It's not Wendy's fault that you didnt make the cut for the Barnum & Bailey's pinhead audition. Try biting off live chicken heads or eating light bulbs next time, son.

@customsongmaker

2 жыл бұрын

Yes it's rare for a woman to be so obsessed with technology. Most people like this are men.

@hamishmacdonald8593

2 жыл бұрын

Her brilliance isn’t an indictment on the “modular community” it’s just the facts of her life

@richmoreno9938

2 жыл бұрын

Basically she’s GOD.

Not only a technical and musical genius, but one of the best teachers ever. I've loved her work and explanations of it since I first discovered it as an elementary school kid 50+ years ago.

@The_Establishment_Is_Satanic

20 күн бұрын

@rosemarywessel1294 *He is very talented there is no doubt.

@Haitch_Kay

9 күн бұрын

​@@The_Establishment_Is_Satanic your family is embarrassed by you and you'll spend your entire life miserable and alone. You have no joy inside of you so all you do is try to punch down at marginalized people just so you can feel like you have something in your life

@KryptnGaming

4 күн бұрын

His*

Amazing!!!

I wish there was more readily available footage of Wendy Carlos giving lectures on how to use electronic music equipment.

First thing I thought of was clockwork orange and boom just realized she did the score.

@hiphopefx

3 жыл бұрын

And The Shining.

@akirafan28

3 жыл бұрын

Cool to know ^_^

@wininspn

3 жыл бұрын

I was looking for this comment! Same with me.

@starmc26

3 жыл бұрын

He, did the score.

@Widderic

3 жыл бұрын

@@starmc26 What?

that was awesome.

All sounds, are just combinations of various wave forms and noise. It really is that simple. Now how you combine those for effects is where it gets incredibly complicated.

Can you imagine having that entire room in your laptop it's unbelievably amazing

@masonmorgan4

2 жыл бұрын

nigga please..that room is can fit in my pocket now

@tizzlekizzle

2 жыл бұрын

@@masonmorgan4 Thanks for sharing.

@efisgpr

2 жыл бұрын

@@tizzlekizzle LMAO

@efisgpr

2 жыл бұрын

@@Akronkangaroo So true! Also: movie theater, language lab...and, accounting for delivery -- grocery store, restaurant, store (Amazon, post mates). Even a gym class, tutoring appointment, job interview, college course, etc. can happen via cell. Truly amazing. Don't need a TV or radio either, of course.

@el34glo59

2 жыл бұрын

Crazy

She just explained everything I've ever wondered about the plugins I'm trying to use.

@wake_up_samurai77

2 жыл бұрын

it's a he

@tensevo

2 жыл бұрын

wut?

@gandalf8216

2 жыл бұрын

@@wake_up_samurai77 It's a woman. Don't let the sideburns fool you.

@wake_up_samurai77

2 жыл бұрын

@@gandalf8216 it's a dude

@gandalf8216

2 жыл бұрын

@@wake_up_samurai77 Was born a dude, but however little I think of transsexuals in general, I'm giving her the pass for giving us the Moog synths. Same as with William Shatner, he gets the pass of being a narcissistic asshole because he was Captain Kirk.

apparently, she was forced to wear these sideburns, and she hated wearing them and cried after recording.

@ariseyhun2085

Ай бұрын

Huh why was she forced to wear it?

@rhaarchives5077

Ай бұрын

@@ariseyhun2085 because she's transgender- originally a man, so the producers thought dressing as a woman was unacceptable and thus forced her to wear those sideburns and male clothing

@efflorescentcrystal

9 күн бұрын

​@@rhaarchives5077that's honestly really sad to hear

@BaneRain

3 күн бұрын

Thats terrible

Wow nice explanation from Stifler

3:02 Mr. Oizo : "yes."

@CertifiedGhoul

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao I thought it sounded familiar

@Peronioz

3 жыл бұрын

Oh, now I think I know why this was recommended to me. I just binged your channel the other day.

@mark6302

3 жыл бұрын

oh hell yeah haha

@joemomumbo

3 жыл бұрын

Boog

@matthias4522

3 жыл бұрын

My exact thought

This isn't just art, it's an engineering masterpiece.

good explanation

I've been fiddling around with electronic music for a decade or so, and that short clip did a better job explaining the core parts of how electronics shape electrical signals into sound than anything else I have ever seen. I've always heard that an expert is someone who can explain what they do to a 10 year old in a few minutes, and Wendy Carlos fits that description. I second the motion to bring her music back into print. I have the CD's for Bach and Brandenburg, but we have so much better audio hardware now that I have to believe it needs a remastering. For example, what could she do with Switched on Bach on Dolby Vision with a 9 speaker system? I'll bet it would be like being in a concert hall. And Wendy, if you see this, thanks for being a trailblazer for transgender people. I have 2 transgender sons, and luckily I knew a bit of your story when they came out. It really helped me know how to react properly with love and support.