Walter Carlos, Sonic Seasonings, Columbia, LP, 31236
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VERY GOOD CONDITION!
Media : LP record album
Records: 2
Label: Columbia
Label Color: Red/Deep Yellow/Black
Country: USA
Release: AL 31236, C 31236, KG 31234
Date: 1972
Condition: Vinyl: VG, Jacket: G, has some wear on spine, Sleeves: missing
TRACK LIST :
Side A
Sonic Seasonings is "an aural tapestry, created by the imagination and expertise of Walter Carlos, from impressionistic and expressionistic experiences of Nature. It contains natural sounds, recorded in Quad as realistically as possible and subtly mixed with electronic and instrumental sounds in an effort to create four evolving, undulating cycles, evocative of the moods of earth's seasons. We have manipulated these sounds - electronically orchestrated them, so to speak - into an amalgam of the natural and synthetic".
Electronic musician Walter Carlos was born in 1938 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (USA) and had a big interest in both music and technology. At the age of ten he composed his first piece and at 14 he build a small homecomputer. Three years later he assembled an electronic music studio and created his first electronic musical composition, manipulated with some tape recording. At the Brown University (1958-1962), Carlos studied music and physics and taught electronic music; at the Columbia University (1962-1965), he did extensive work at the Columbia-Princeton electronic music center and in that period, Walter Carlos assisted the famous director in a concert of electronic music at the Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center, and also managed to get two of his compositions, Dialogues for Piano and Two Loudspeakers and Variations for Flute and Electronic Sound, commercially recorded. With the wish to develop an electronic sound producing unit which could validly be called a musical instrument, Carlos began a collaboration with engineer in 1966. The result was a prototype of Carlos' special synthesizer on which he performed and recorded his realizations of Bach and other composers (the Switched-On series) and his music for the musical score of A Clockwork Orange.
In 1969 he had a sexe-change becoming Wendy Carlos, and has been known the rest of her career with this name. This means that the artists name Walter Carlos refers to a specific period of time and a small set of releases, especially the first Switched-On's. Altough this isn't realy noticable now, it's obvious that the sexe-change must have a big impact on the musical career, at least from a commercial point of view. Even Wendy's official website doesn't say much about this period, and that's a pitty, because it was very important for the development of 'Electronic Music', the synthesizer as musical instrument and what we now call 'Minimalystic': the (re-)search for the bounderies of music and sound. Music, more or less, from a scientific point of view. Of course, in the 70's a sexe-change wasn't very well-known and accepted as it is today. For more information about this artist, especially the later period, see .
