Track Listing

1. Introduction
2. Examples Of Analog Timbres
3. Choral Tone, Vibrato, Articulation
4. Vocal Synthesis
5. Performance Values
6. Simple Orchestration
7. Electronic Pointillism & Hocketing
8. For Spatial Motion
9. Ensemble Performance Via Click-Tracks
10. Imitative Synthesis
11. Musique Concrete Plus Synthesizer
12. Orchestra With Synthesizer
13. Digital Synthesis
14. Digital Vs. Analog
15. Hybrid Timbres
16. Alternative Tunings - The Future

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27827 in Music
• Released on: 2003-11-11
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced

Customer Reviews

Interesting Audio Documentary
This CD is an audio documentary - written and narrated by Wendy Carlos. It is also a "hypertext-enhanced" CD (i.e., there is web content on the CD as well as Audio). The included web site contains a lot of supplemental material - such as her program notes and some other material.
I found it very interesting to learn how some of the music I have enjoyed over the years came to be and how it was created.

NOT a music CD
Wendy lectures on how she composes etc. Probably a must for any musician. But not much here for the casual music lover. If I had known that before I bought it . . .

Analog Synth basics with Extras.
Wendy starts this program by pointing out the general characteristics of the sine, square analog white noise and builds from there. Envelopes and filters are covered extensively and she makes use of her own library of recordings as examples. I enjoyed her talk on the early development and use of vocoders and of her work with the Late Robert Moog. Many changes of early synth development were a direct result of the artists Bob Moog encountered such as Wendy. Wendy was instrumental in bringing the touch sensitivity and velocity to the electronic keyboard. I enjoyed this recording and have re-played it numerous times.