peterr (12/01/82)
For a bit of a change, here's some British chart information, from the Nov. 20 Melody Maker: "New Music" in the Singles charts: Mad World, Tears for Fears at #4; Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?, Culture Club at #9; Living on the Ceiling, Blancmange at #11; Mirror Man, Human League at #12; Rio, Duran Duran at #13; Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You), Flock of Seagulls at #23; #'s 27-29: The Other Side of Love by Yazoo, Someone Somewhere (in Summertime) by Simple Minds, and Nightporter by Japan. The "Synthesizer" chart (top ten): Kamikaze by Edgar Froese, Erdenklang by Bognermayr/Zuschrader, The Other Side of Love by Yazoo, TRON Soundtrack by Wendy Carlos, Computer Experiments Vol 1 by Synergy (Has anyone heard this album?), To The Unknown Man Vol 1 and 2 by Vangelis, Ki by Kitaro, Rivers by Claude Larson, Chromium Echoes by Neuronium, and Jupiter Menace Soundtrack by Larry Fast/Synergy. There are quite a few intriguing titles in the second chart and I haven't heard any of them... anyone care to offer some (even nano-) reviews?
wrv (12/02/82)
Maybe this should go to net.music.... but after reading the name "Wendy Carlos" my frazzled brain seems to recall that Walter Carlos (Switched On Bach Fame) ->> Wendy Carlos via a sex change operation. Can anyone confirm this, or have I totally flipped out (too much PDP11 hacking)? Bill Vogel BTL-Ih ..ihnp4!ihldt!wrv (312)979-3046 [flames will be saved in /dev/null]
terryl (12/03/82)
Yes, they(he/she?) are one and the same (well, I can't really say same) person. If I remember correctly, it was about four or five years ago when Walter changed to Wendy.
tw (12/03/82)
#R:ihldt:-116900:hp-pcd:7900001:000:55 hp-pcd!tw Dec 3 10:52:00 1982 You are correct, Wendy Carlos was once Walter Carlos.
mclure (03/09/83)
#R:ihldt:-116900:sri-unix:6600002:000:394 sri-unix!mclure Dec 11 05:16:00 1982 Yep. He's (she's) Wendy now. I believe Playboy interviewed her in 1981; unfortunately (but not surprisingly) the interview was mostly about the sex change rather than her musical interpretations. For my money, her interpretations of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos are better than any chamber orchestra version I've heard. It must have been incredibly tiresome to do it track by track. Stuart