11/18/2023
Happy birthday to the one and only, the legendary, the pioneering musician, composer, artist, solar eclipse enthusiast and inspiration to many, Wendy Carlos.
In an 1999 interview by Carol Wright, Wendy describes the impact of advances in synthesizer technology:
[Interviewer: Many modern composers starting creating post-MIDI. They were given their sounds on a silver platter. I'm not sure they all really appreciate where...
Wendy: None of us really know what giants' shoulders we stand on. Should we have a responsibility to know what and who came before us? It's not necessary to play or compose music, but then, I look back to Bob Moog and the others who came before me, and I'm grateful. I was lucky enough to be there when electronic music was still an infant, and I was there to help it take some of the steps needed to mature into a real medium.
There were so many stages necessary for the creation of electronic music: the Ondes Martinot and the Theremin -- many devices, actually, from over a hundred years ago. The original synthesizer was built by RCA, and the second of only two models was located at the Columbia lab. That's where Bob Moog got the name for his device. He combined many different modules in one cabinet, and this collection of tools is what Bob called the synthesizer.]
References: New Age Voice.
