Wendy Carlos demonstrates her Moog Synthesizer in 1970 

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Same

she is like 80

@@ventoilin5938 shes prod dead

@Fremglerk thanks

Lol same. She puts all of the modern "experts" to shame with her masterful and amazing simple explanation of such a difficult thing to explain. That's the mark of a true GENIUS.

Came for the music stayed for the sideburns

Fun fact, they're fake sideburns and she's wearing a wig in order to pass as male due to anxiety.

😂😂😂😂😂

@@MikkelGrumBovin my guy x

I believe she had synesthesia

@@Tlaloc_D1 she just studied enough physics while also being a talented musician, composer and - this case - and educator

Agreed! Very clear.

@@Retfie719 She was (is?) a huuuge nerd with everything sound. She actually worked on the implementation of stereo sound in consumer products, which is fucking huge. I came to know her when researching quadrophonic surround sound, of which she has been a proponent for years. As far as I know, her mixing and mastering credentials are also outstanding, although she's most well known for her synthesizer work.

I am just wondering why this weird woman has sideburns. And is wearing a suit. Very degenerate, very strange, very distracting.

YES, it's a four minute master class in musical synthesis. Even in this digital age, the algorithms that generate electronic music are entirely based on the analog models that Ms Carlos demonstrates in this incredibly succinct, well explicated tutorial. Far be it from me to knock the digital revolution (I'm a computer programmer as well as musician), but when sound meets our eardrums, it does so in the analog domain. I grew up on the Clockwork Orange soundtrack and Switched On Bach, Switched On Brandenburgs, and before that, Gershon Kingsley's "Music to Moog By" and "First Moog Quartet" LPs that my dad had. Electronic musical instruments are legitimate musical instruments, and the maestros of the electronic domain have names like Theremin, Rockmore, Moog, Kingsley, and Carlos. If someone disagrees, well, they are disagreeing with the invention of artificial musical instruments like the bone flutes we find in archaeological digs from 40,000 years ago or whenever it was. Music is music and human beings, it turns out, will go to incredible lengths to make it however they can. Thank you, Ms Wendy Carlos.

@@thisisaname5589 who asked

@@thisisaname5589 lol you’re so insecure

@@thisisaname5589 oh boo hoo cry me a river

They're stuck on lol, you can get the same ones probably!

That's a man

@@Marvin-ut4xs sure bud 👍

@@Marvin-ut4xs incorrect

they are fake. she put them on for this interview.

It's guy Martin 😂

@@jamiesmart9016She is not

"He"

​@@caspernicus5822he obviously is

​@rick39guitarist those sideburns stolen my heart. Looks very hot.

Her? She?

@@leatherandtactel Yes.

@@leatherandtactel yos.

This person has sideburns, how is that possible?

@@leatherandtactel she’s a trans woman.

Correct, in 2012 I got to be on stage with the number "1 Moog built right after Moog died. Tribute at a musical festival in Pennsylvania in Gettysburg.

You pretty much needed an electronic expert to calibrate those old 901 oscillators. Moog was a genius!

I remember when our band Dillinger got the first one. Our sound man, Jim was a genius.

@Mr. Roboto it is a bookcase

@@panicfarm9874 ....swaps door signs back over on and .

That was “simple” in those days.

😂

The good ol days of patch cables

I really like how you put a a period at the end of this comment because it let's me know you're definitely not a pretentious fa. 9.90t

Tape

Trans woman? Or regular woman with fake facial hair? I an genuinely perplexed.

@@cartoonhanks1708 Technically she was still a male here but her androginy was rather impressive already.

@@cartoonhanks1708 "Her" real name is Walter Carlos. And that's what his name was, when this was filmed, and when he composed the score for 'A Clockwork Orange'. Simple sex change late 70s, no big fuss. I used to own a record still labeled "Walter Carlos" - my oh my, why did I not keep it? Would probably be worth a bunch today.

@@fredschmitt456 ok so she's a woman. Got it. Thanks

Peak style clearly

I also knew he had knob from the first moment

@@AlexDMC 😆 Facts.

​@@AlexDMC she

it is I love listening to it

you like it thin and high, yes?

So, you like guys who think that they are girls, huh?

@@georgepierson4920 get out of here, man

@@georgepierson4920 We're all pretty much him.

They are not real unfortunately

​@@fredfredericksoni hope so☠☠

​@@fredfrederickson I thought they were made from her hairs...

​@@SirPano85Wendy is trans, was a guy at the time

@@Notanothercrayon no, she already transitioned well before this. She switched back to boy mode to avoid judgemental behaviour from people who didn't realise that she was trans.

I couldn't agree more. I'm actually really interested in '70s and '80s synth soundtracks. I got tired of all the crappy music nowadays and bored with listening to the same old favorites from the '80s that I started looking into some of my favorite horror movie soundtracks. One of my favorites is near dark from Tangerine dream. I like the soundtrack from creep show I like soundtrack from Dawn of the Dead. If you have any you could recommend I'm all ears.

@@privateprivate1865 youre not looking enough if you think todays music is crappy, look up domi, jd beck, puma blue, spill tab, tyler the creator, isaiah sharkey i could go on and on.

Were you ever into Michael Iceberg (Iseberg). He headlined Tomorrowland in Disney in the 70s and 80s. A 20+ minute clip is even on RU-vid of an entire concert and him explaining the machine he built (but not in such detail as this video). Man, that video gets the feels moving for me. :-)

I remember that synth sound when I heard first time Sweet Dreams from Eurythmics in 1985 my mother was listening...woow that sound was amazing...

The 70s was a creepy, dark decade overall. So these medieval synth sounds suit it just perfectly :)

More like “hold my sideburns” lol

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Me: ok

@@RizzlaBeatz well this vid is about music not her sideburns lol

Impossible to overstate.

Can someone please explain how she has sideburns?

@@otakumangastudios3617 he's a dude

@@digiquo8143 you know they literally called the person wendy, right? I've never heard of a man named Wendy

@@otakumangastudios3617 "born Walter Carlos" from Wikipedia

Wendy's work on Tron was stellar, for sure.

Did not realize she composed music for Tron, thanks for that!

I saw her perform with the Moog at the Guggenheim Museum. Quite a thrill!

@@davidv8504 never knew that either! Many thanks 😁

me too! you said it right, life changing!

@@davidannett3322 Love the CLU avatar pic David 👍🏻

:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

This is a boy

@@cobracommander1700 Shut up

@@tyrekecantrell5941 Has sideburns wth?

@@cobracommander1700 so?

Dude that’s so cool that you did that wtf??

Actually "Walter Carlos" was the name on the album.

@@robertklouman1321grow up

Still there is a big difference. Wendy is a genius because she had to grasp it all but even more, made musical sense using the incredibly complex Moog synths. Software synths come with presets anyone can use.

@@jepz11 not to mention there is a noticeable difference in the sounds of a digital synthesizer and an analog one.

@@yeastofthoughtsmind9623 Of course, but it's always a matter of practicality against quality, although the gap has been greatly reduced. I would kill to own a Prophet Synth, but for roughly the same price, I got myself a home studio. And a Prophet emulator. Does it sound the same? No. Does it kick major ass and allow me to do anyhing I can think of? Hell yeah!

still not the same or Nine Inch Nails and Junkie XL would only use their laptops opposed to the big synth setups they have

You can do this stuff on your phone, too.

Yeah I don’t know though, I much prefer the sound that she is getting, because it is not a digital replication, but rather the actual “sound” is coming straight out of it

@@kingrick5494 It's literally the difference between digital sampling and analog sound. There is not substitute. Talk to a guitarist and ask about tube amps.... no comparisson. It's pure signal and no digital sampling.

@@TritonTv69420 Am guitarist - can confirm

Maybe the Casio sound was created on a Moog.

So yeah, been using synthesizers since the 80’s. No digital synth from the 80’s, certainly not a Casio, was capable of the fat, rich analog tones that a Moog is capable of.

She did compose it indeed.

@@VincentMartens93 oh snap, that’s interesting af!

it's from J. S. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major (BWV 1049), 2nd movement Andante

She composed A Clockwork Orange, then The Shining, and then Tron.

yeah that's the sole problem.... FINDING it.... Wendy's Albums haven't really been re-released in the past 20 years or so for what ever reason :/

I own that one too, i dont know of a re release of that one but a lot of her stuff is re released, you find details on her website.

Id recommend ebay or discogs to get a hold of Wendys CDs

God bless you for this info

@@KRAFTWERK2K6 The problem is the record industry. After decades of trying to get the rights to her own music back, she was leery of losing them again. The recording label she found in the 1990s to release her music on collapsed in the early 2000s. She hasn't found anything since.

she actually composed a lot of the soundtrack for a clockwork orange. really cool stuff.

@@carolyncashin5543 I loved that movie and the soundtrack.

anyone with a modular synth has to do this, it is in fact the basis of all electronic music, anyone not using presets will always construct a sound from the wave up, more easily visualised with wavetable synthesisers but any synth is generally the same system, but she was an incredible pioneer in developing the ideas behind a lot of techniques we take for granted today :)

yea he seems like a smart dude

@Prisoner X Yes, she!

@@SpeccyMan thats a dude.

@@Llamaifunny literally all you have to do is look at her wikipedia page.

Yes

Same here. I played it so much! I grew up on classical music, and when I heard this for the first time I was hooked.

For some strange reason I am doubting they are real.

@@classicpontiac37 they aren’t real. Nor is the hair. She wore them as some kind of disguise to hide that she was trans. She also used makeup to fake stubble. Eventually she developed a fear of appearing in public for a while before coming out.

@@not_ever I'm shocked I tell you. Shocked. 😆

@MrLizardisle Wendy.

@MrLizardisle Wendy*

@MrLizardisle why do u feel the need to be a horses ass

@MrLizardisle no, Wendy in that era. Get her name right.

@@SorchaSublime Walter is her twin brother from a parallel universe. In this universe, there is only Wendy. 😁

Wendos!

Adult Swim

@@briggy4359 yes!!!! I thought what I said didn’t quite sound right. Thank you

One of the all time great skits!

Found it, the Lords of the Synth are Vangelis, Giorgio Moroder and Wendy Carlos.

Looks like his brilliance. I don't understand how this is different than anorexia. If a 86 pound adult told you that they were overweight and needed to lose weight, would it be OK or wonderful (or progressive) to agree and encourage them?

@@sz5876 very generous of you to let millions of trans folks live in your brain rent-free 24/7

@@calypso4533 ok, but memes aside S Z has a point

@@jogiff Except, someone with anorexia is so severely underweight that left untreated it would result in death or severe damage to their body. But trans people being recognized as their chosen gender has a noticeable psychological benefit reducing depression and suicidal thoughts. Along with this, hormone treatments aren't detrimental to a person's health. It's a dumb false equivalence of two entirely separate issues.

@@waffleconehat "hormone treatments aren't detrimental to a person's health." LOL, who told you that? Testosterone is an incredibly potent chemical which drastically increases the risk of heart

😂

@chuckhorus3228 Transgender people exist Chuck. Grow up.

She is trans but was trying to appear male at the time--it was before she transitioned. Her given name was Walter.

@@scottandrewhutchins I believe what Anonymous Mobster means here by chops is, "mad skills"

@@scottandrewhutchins saying that “she was trans” was already enough. no need to reveal all of this information that absolutely no one needed to know. show the woman some respect

@@pittafterhours why scold him for explaining? what's the end goal there?

@@cassun603 it's somewhat disrespectful, a lot of trans people (including myself) would prefer it if people weren't giving out that kind of private info when it isn't necessary. she doesn't go by her given name (and she didn't at the time of recording either), therefore it's a completely useless fact. sure, she might not care about a youtube comment saying her given name, but a lot of trans people try to hide their given names to prevent getting said offensive things.

She? 🤔

@@deepakjoshi823 yeah whats the hang up? The person who designed the music for a clockwork orange is transgender. Does this upset you? Are you triggered by this?

@@SevenPr1me Oh it's you again lmao, so you were so mad because you assume i didn't like that she was transgender. Which now I'm confused again, because the person in this video looked like a woman dressing as a man, while in real life, this person is actually woman (who was a man?) So not the other way around. Which would be confusing then because why would a woman who was a man dress as a man again?

@@kenz2756 nothing new here i see. Still confused and stupid ;)

@@SevenPr1me So is this a woman dressing as a man or a man before she is a woman? It looked like a legit woman dressing as a man to me at first. Why are you still so rude?

It's a guy

@@shoutatthesky no they're not

@@shoutatthesky Of course not; why would she be a guy if her name is wendy?

I'm very jelly too. She's goals.

Being a dude originally helps with growing bangin' sideburns like that.

Rhynn, those sideburns are fake.

@@waytoobiased If this were a proper woman, I would agree on that. However, this is a dude at heart. I have my doubts that the sideburns are fake.

@@DarthSidian I don’t think whether trans women are women affects the fakeness of those mutton chops. Do those seriously look real to you? She was years on hormones at this point.

You’re in luck, there’s a whole video about it

Because it's a man

Not only that.

Because he is a man look it up

I'd prefer to thank the geniuses themselves for actually doing something instead of the guy who killed them.

Synthwave is relatively old 80's samples. So thank the 80's and early 70's lol

@Sanctus Paulus who made death and suffering?

@@unluckycatfish6866 We did.

@@pinkfloydguy7781 Pretty cringe of us

Wait there's a reason for the sideburns beyond she wanted sideburns? Don't just leave us hanging like that

​@@thecianinator Switched-On Bach was a surprise hit. It had been released under her old name. She was in the middle of her transition when she suddenly received major media attention because of the album. She wasn't out at the time, so she disguised herself as a man by gluing on sideburns and wearing a wig.

@@grmpf See I didn't even know she was trans, I didn't have any context for Wendy Carlos' identity except that she did the Tron score. I thought I was just looking at a biological woman who wanted to style herself like a handsome man. But now that I know that I'm looking at a biological man who was in the middle of transitioning into womanhood but still pretending to be a man in public, it all falls into place.

@@thecianinator mad respect for her

Tic-tac-toe, squared (minus 1/2, give or take)

Thats what I saw too. Just a slick look all around.

Can't find anything like them. Railway track cufflinks are closest but not really close.

He not she

@@Thedisciplemike no. This is Wendy Carlos. She disguised herself as a man during the '70s before she came out as a woman.

@@BubbaCoop yes but she's Wendy. And has been since the '70s.

@@BubbaCoop that's just transphobic.

@@BubbaCoop I'm not calling you names, I'm saying what I see, transphobia. Everyone knows biologically she still has the same XY chromosomes she was born with, nobody is disputing that. It's how you identify that makes you you.

Bro!! Doing that tonight. I got the MPC ready. 😂. 🔥. Free samples.

I'm jumping on this, too #mpc500

from The Well Tempered Synthesizer, track 10

Why. Does. Everyone. Use. EMOJIS. AND I HATE PEOPLE WHO SWEAR.

@Kim it’s doing things to me

@Kim He was Walter in 1970. Still I'm curious about his interest in sideburns considering the strong feminine energy that would ultimately prevail.

The sideburns are fake and the hair is a male wig. She was undergoing hormone therapy to transition to a Female since 1968 but was terrified to appear in public as such so she tried her best to appear male in public. Hence the dodgy wig and burns.

It’s almost as if people find blackface and womanface disgusting and offensive.

​​@@wormwoodcocktailComparing trans women to blackface has got to be one of the most uneducated and privileged takes I have ever heard lmfao

I honestly want sure but yes it's a shame people get angry over it. We're way past such things these days, I'm gay myself so I'm naturally all about inclusively and acceptance. I must say it's odd Wendy maintains that name, I would have thought, I'm going to say "he" here would have changed it...but you do you I say. Regardless Wendy was no doubt a true genius who bought a timeless device into creation and made some truly memorable movie scores!😊

@@joshtaylor6911 As a gay person, why defend the same cohort of men who came up with things like the “cotton ceiling”?

Right. After that rather dull explanation the tape starts and ... incredibly beautiful *music* come out. Mind masters matter!

WC means bathroom.

@@myautobiographyafanfic1413 they also happen to be her initials.

@@SorchaSublime yeah, but I wouldn't call her by them because it's insulting.

@@myautobiographyafanfic1413 huh? I've never heard anyone call a bathroom a "wc", is that a british thing? I've heard restroom and bathroom but then again I'm murican or maybe people call it something different in other places

Fr? I thought it was a cis woman trying to dress as a man

@@kalypsokeith1851 maybe that's the truth in her spirit showing...

@@kalypsokeith1851 male assigned at birth? Wouldn’t have been the first time the docs got it wrong

Why do the sideburns look fake then?

@@vampiresforesl hormones are weird. If she was male assigned, but biologically female, she would still undergo a “sex change”. Hence, the fake sideburns.

Lena Raine is rather cool too

@@waytoobiased how electronic is Lena’s music? I really love the Celeste soundtrack but have no clue what (genre? style?) it’s in.

@@BloodyHaemorrhoids83 okay fair enough

proof men do everything better than real women

Idk why this is our culture, it just is

I honestly think that the people now a days all want to “show off and prove” how much they know, drawing out explanations and tones of condemnation that are condescending, and this fantastic being of Wendy Carlos is just explaining it how it is in her mind

I've understood far more here than anything else about this subject

@@CreNativeFosho I think it's probably more that most of what he's talking about here has been abstracted into tons of different tools and features that accomplish the same thing, but in a far more user-friendly environment that doesn't provide much intuition into what's actually happening. Much like how high-level programming such as C++ uses many keywords that make it "easy" to use, but don't necessarily aid in understanding what's actually happening at the machine code level post compilation.

I thought I was the only one. I just understood how those waves work

Exactly this.

More like the life sopport machine has just flat lined

"TeEeEeEeEeEeT!!!" 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

lmao

LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Best comment

I read this while he said it at the same

It’s simple in a way that no one knows how to use them. You just keep pluggin in things and adjusting knobs til you get a sound that you like.

Explaining transition be like

It's not rocket science, unlike programming a FM synth.

Well, the basics of it actually are pretty simple. There’s just a lot of basics put together here and it can appear overwhelming if you’re not used to it.

@@rfichokeofdestiny exactly, the actual principle behind it is simple, you just need to be familiar with the layout

yes lol

Lmao

Lmao yeah

Think about how miraculous digital synths and mixing software is that all of that ANALOG HARDWARE can be condensed into a microchip you can stick in your pocket.

Correction, FL Studio made the Moog into a digital thing. Let's give precedence to the correct source. Actually, I hope I didn't do a whoosh with your humour? It's hard to tell when someone's channel doesn't have any content.

What do you mean they didn't know? I'm pretty sure they knew it's statistical and mathematical properties?

We knew exactly what it was and it was on every tv channel after they went off the air till returning in the early morning.

@@eldiablo7862 You are confusing simple white noise with the cosmic microwave background

I’m willing to bet most people now don’t know exactly what white noise is other than a sound that comes out of a speaker.

You know that TV static is only, like... 1% cmbr, right?

her soundtrack for the shining really made that film work

I was looking for the comment specifying what I think I already knew... just listening to the end of this video, I immediately thought of the synth version of Beethoven from ACO.

ntm "Switched-On Bach," which she's recording there. that album came out & came home when I was 5. dad, b.1917, was a huge fan.

clockwork orange is one of my favourite scores ever! Cool. It had such an artistic, yet eerie vibe to it.

Composed TRON? I...I did not know that.

Noice

Bobbi Ross

@@troyc4841 nah he was still Walter back then

Why is everyone the Bob Ross of everything?

@@jadedandbitter generally it's considered polite to refer to someone as how they identify now, even when talking about before they came out publicly.

AND The Shining

And those pork chop sideburns look just fabulous too, 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

'Wendy' composed very little music for Clockwork Orange. He/She mostly arranged/transcribed of other composers' work (Beethoven, Purcell, etc.) Kubrick liked to use music in public domain because he was a tightwad.

Oh man, when she was playing it at the end I was thinking i’m getting stanley kubrick vibes here. Good to know.

@@fstover5208 The compositions would have been in the public domain meaning Wendy didn't have to pay a lisence holder to recompose them. But her recordings wouldn't have been public domain. As for Kubrick, it's less that he was a tightwad and just barely even had funding for A Clockwork Orange, it was a very cheap film for what it is

Hahahaha my thoughts exactly!!

Legend has it those sideburns were reused as pubic hair.

those are legit lambchopz

Pretty sure she is wearing a wig over her real hair and put the chops on to be eclectic and cool which she succeeded in doing completely

I agree

lol could you explain?

@@TheSideProject ​ On an analog synth, particularly an older one, when you tune the VCOs they will be in tune in the part of the keyboard where you tuned from, but have a tendency to get progressively out of tune the further away you get from that point. Let's say you do a standard tuning of the first A above Middle C to 440 (A440). Your keys surrounding that A key will be in tune, but as you move up or down the keyboard from that point the notes will start to drift slightly out of tune. There are ways manufacturers use to alleviate this as much as they can (tracking), but these adjustments can drift over time as well and need to be recalibrated by opening up the unit.

Underated comment

@@crominion6045 I get it. Something like that used to happen to me with a Pianica

@Cro Minion: The Moog modular was built until 1980 and she also was Bob's assistant, so it is quite possible that the one she is playing here is brand new. Of course that still doesn't mean that it can't go out of tune.

Absolutely, check out Isao Tomita if you want to see some serious multitracked Moog.

Exactly - with *Delia Derbyshire*, the wonderful wizardess of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop!

I stayed in maidavale near the BBC workshop.

☑️ Yeah, and by the late 80s you could do all ^that and more with a keyboard and maybe 1 or 2 small components, each about the size of a standard AM/FM stereo receiver. My friend nearly died in a catastrophic car accident, but ended up getting the first of a 2 part settlement in 1989, my friend spent about $2,000 - -$2,500 of a near-death personal injury settlement on a basic, but good quality musical studio setup for his home. It was pretty much all Yamaha branded. It included a Yamaha keyboard, and a Yamaha digital effects processor, Yamaha drum machine, and a Yamaha 4-track recorder, along with the requisite (Yamaha)studio reference speakers. The combination of the keyboard and the effects processor provided the digitally sampled sounds of a myriad of different orchestral instruments, along with many of the same synthesizer sounds you'd expect to hear from ^these classic rock era synthesizers. Once you figured out how to competently operate that 4 piece home studio system, you could singlehandedly cobble together and record what would sound like 3, or 10, or 15 or 25+ separate musical instruments being played by just as many different musicians, but all by yourself! Now you can do much of that with just a computer with sound processing software installed! Until I'd first seen how recording studio equipment works, I wasn't aware how easy it was(is) for a big record company to 'manufacture' music. By that, I mean they can take any untalented person and make him or her(or ze or zir) sound like an ultra talented musician! In order to record songs with these multi-track recorders, you don't have to teach the person to play entire parts of a song at once. They can literally play and record just 1 note at a time, then cobble it all together into what sounds like an organic melody! It's why some "artists" sound talented on their albums, but they suck live! 🥴

agreed, being a synth musician/operator in the 60's and 70's might as well have been a trade haha