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Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos; November 14, 1939) is an American composer and performer, known for her use of electronic instruments to play classical music, and for her film scores. Carlos first came to prominence in 1968 with ''Switched-On Bach'', a recording of music by J.S. Bach assembled phrase-by-phrase on a Moog synthesizer, at the time a relatively new and unknown instrument. The album earned three Grammy Awards in 1969 and other classical recordings followed. Carlos later began releasing original compositions, including the first album of synthesized environmental sounds, ''Sonic Seasonings'' (1972) and an album exploring alternate tunings ''Beauty in the Beast'' (1986). She has worked in film music, writing and performing scores for two Stanley Kubrick movies, ''A Clockwork Orange'' (1971) and ''The Shining'' (1980), as well as Walt Disney's ''Tron'' (1982). ==Career== Carlos was a musical prodigy who started piano lessons at six〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wendy Carlos: Biographical Notes )〕 and at ten composed "A Trio for Clarinet, Accordion, and Piano". In 1953 (aged 14), Carlos won a Westinghouse Science Fair scholarship for a home-built computer, well before "computer" was a household word. After graduating from St. Raphael Academy, a Catholic high school in Pawtucket, RI, Carlos earned a B.A. in music and physics at Brown University (1962) and an M.A. in music from Columbia University (1965). Carlos studied with Vladimir Ussachevsky, a pioneer in electronic music, as well as Otto Luening and Jack Beeson, working in the famed Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. Carlos met Dr. Robert Moog at the 1963 Audio Engineering Society show〔 and became one of his earliest customers, providing advice and technical assistance for his further development of the Moog synthesizer. Carlos convinced Moog to add touch sensitivity to the synthesizer keyboard for greater dynamics and musicality, among other improvements. Around 1966, Carlos met Rachel Elkind, who went on to produce ''Switched-On Bach'' and other early albums. With the proceeds from ''Switched-On Bach'', the two renovated a New York brownstone, which they shared as a home and business premises, installing a studio for live and electronic recording on the bottom floor where all subsequent recordings have been produced. Carlos took the unusual step of enclosing the entire studio in a Faraday cage, shielding the equipment from radio and television interference. Carlos contributed a review of the then-available synthesizers to the June 1971 edition of the Whole Earth Catalog, contrasting the Moog, Buchla and Tonus (aka ARP) systems. She was dismissive of smaller systems like the EMS ''Putney'' and the Minimoog as "toys" and "cash-ins". Carlos is also an accomplished solar eclipse photographer.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Solar Eclipse Images )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wendy Carlos」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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