[OT]Re: Wendy Carlos

[Stewart Pye]

Hi All...

I have a book called "Electronic Musical Instruments" by Norman Crowhorst.
Copyright 1971 and 1975 Tab books and Fulhom-Tab. It describes how acoustic
instruments make sounds and how organs, electric pianos, tone controls,
synths, etc work. It's kind of vague, and 60's technology.


Anyway, It's the only place I've seen Wendy referred to as Walter. And has
a picture of him in front of a Moog modular. I guess she doesn't want
people to talk about Walter. Sorry this is so OT but this has intrigued me
since I bought the book ten tears ago.




Stewart.



At 12:05 AM 05/02/2000 -0500, Peter Snow wrote:
>Hi list,
>I saw a posting a couple of days ago about the Wendy Carlos boxed CD
>set.  Just thought I would throw in my 2cents.  It *is* pricy (I paid
>$90.00CDN) but as I did not have any of the originals either CD or
>vinyl, it was a good way to get the CDs and some bonuses.  There are 4
>CDs and 2 booklets of info in there.  One is a reprint of the original
>liner notes of the albums, the other is much thicker and contains lotsa
>background info on Wendy, the Moog synth, Bob, and many photos of the
>people and equipment.  
>
>The 4 CDs are completely re-mastered and sound great. They are: S/On
>Bach, S/On Bach II, S/On Brandenburgs, Well Tempered Synth.  One has
>some commentary from Wendy and various different versions of some of the
>tracks (early unused takes). These are interesting as they show how some
>of the tracks evolved and came together.  Another has a data session
>containing many photos and documents and yet another has a trial version
>of the Retro AS-1 virtual synth for the PC (haven't played with it yet).
>The 4th one has some extra (previously unreleased?) tracks.
>
>The downside?  Too many pictures of Wendy's cat!!
>
>Peter Snow
>Ottawa, Canada
>
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