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Title: Queer Music Friday - Wendy Carlos
Post by: Shana A on April 30, 2011, 09:45:26 AM
Queer Music Friday - Wendy Carlos
Filed by: Alex Blaze
April 29, 2011 5:00 PM

http://www.bilerico.com/2011/04/queer_music_friday_-_wendy_carlos.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2011/04/queer_music_friday_-_wendy_carlos.php)

Wendy Carlos is an analog synth artist known both for her interpretations of classical composers and her own synth compositions. You probably already know some of her work through movie soundtracks, like Clockwork Orange. This is "The Funeral of Queen Mary":

She also wrote the score for Tron. Here's "Sea of Simulation" from that movie:

She won three Grammys for her 1969 album, Switched-On Bach.