End of the Week of
OSCILLATORS AND SYNTHESIZERS, LADIES AND PIONEERS..

The last guest could only be her, Wendy Carlos, born Walter in 1939, who underwent gender reassignment surgery in 1972. A graduate in piano, she met Robert Moog and collaborated with him on the development and refinement of various models of keyboards, especially polyphonic ones. Technically, and not just as a musician, she offered the great inventor development possibilities, including commercial ones, for the Engineer's instruments.
She is the author of seminal albums for all electronic music such as "Switched-on Bach" and "The Well Tempered Syntesizer," where she demonstrates the applications of analog synthesizers (late '60s-early '70s) within the strictly classical context, replacing traditional instruments with the synthetic sounds from her keyboards while not sacrificing the necessary virtuosity for performing the pieces. Her rigorous approach, bordering on perfectionism, captivates and inspires numerous future pioneers of electronic music, both in the classical field and in the upcoming technopop scene, from Isao Tomita to Jean-Michel Jarre to Brian Eno, plus dozens and dozens of other famously wealthy names far more than hers.
She hasn't appeared in public or given interviews for years, and her tracks from the albums under her name have also been, at her express request, removed from YouTube.
Therefore, I feel compelled to post a more spoken than visual video featuring the Artist being interviewed. Every clip related to her on the Tube includes performances, even of excellent quality, but by her epigones, not her originals. So, good luck, and seek out her two stunning CDs mentioned above, beasts.