Muppets Inside Wendy Carlos
Wendy Carlos (b. 1939) is a composer best known for her electronic music and film scores.
In the 1960s, she contributed to the development of the Moog synthesizer, and helped to popularize it with the release of her 1968 album Switched-On Bach, a collection of Bach compositions arranged for the instrument that won three Grammy Awards and was the first classical album certified platinum.
Her other albums include a sequel to Switched-On Bach, the astronomically-inspired Digital Moonscapes, Beauty in the Beast, Tales of Heaven and Hell, and a new interpretation of Peter and the Wolf with collaborator "Weird Al" Yankovic. For film, she scored A Clockwork Orange and The Shining for Stanley Kubrick, several UNICEF shorts, and the 1982 sci-fi flick Tron.
With the exception of some film scores, Carlos owns the distribution rights to her discography. She is also an accomplished photographer, with works published by NASA. In 2020, she was the subject of a biography by Amanda Sewell, a publication Carlos did not participate in and has publicly denounced.
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- A "Trivial But True" question in The Muppet CD-ROM: Muppets Inside, published in 1996, references Carlos.