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Echoes Podcast: Wendy Carlos Switches On 80
We Celebrate Wendy Carlos' 80th Year in Echoes Podcast
We look back at Wendy Carlos on her 80th Birthday.
You know that a lot of time has passed when your references become dated. With its array of cords and cables crisscrossed in a patchbay, we used to compare it to a telephone switchboard gone crazy. Well, synthesizers don’t look like that anymore, the modular renaissance excepted, and most people under thirty wouldn’t know what a telephone switchboard was unless they watch the TCM channel a lot.
It was 1968 when Wendy Carlos took her Moog synthesizer and applied it to the…
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