Wendy Carlos, Moog and A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange was a hugely controversial film, with an incredible soundtrack from Wendy Carlos. The 50 year celebration of which is discussed here, with Will Gregory (Goldfrapp) and Adrian Utley (Portishead), music writer Jude Rogers and producer, DJ and cultural critic Terre Thaemlitz. The soundtrack to the film is below:

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Wendy Carlos has been called the most important living figure in the history of electronic music. In 1964, as a young music and physics graduate, she met Robert Moog and contributed to the development of his early synthesisers. Her million-selling 1968 album Switched-On Bach made the Moog internationally famous and became the second classical album ever to go platinum in the US. Then came her remarkable soundtracks for Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and The Shining and also for Tron.

Carlos's many other recordings span analogue and digital, field recordings and ambient albums that predate the work of Brian Eno and Tangerine Dream, At the same time she continued her pioneering work in technology, advising the likes of Apple on music software. Born Walter Carlos, she was one of the first visible transgender artists, but remains a very private person.

Our event explores the extraordinary career and legacy of Wendy Carlos on the 50th anniversary of A Clockwork Orange and ahead of a live show at the British Library by The Will Gregory Moog Ensemble (23 April) that will feature tributes to Carlos. 

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