Secrets of Synthesis [Enhanced]

Wendy Carlos (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 11, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Label: East Side Digital
• ASIN: B0000E32XB
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #252,309 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #51 in Music > Classical > Instruments > Electronic > Computer

Track Listings

1. Introduction - Wendy Carlos

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

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Quite Informative, but it's not really music., July 16, 2004

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"ericdrebin" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Secrets of Synthesis (Audio CD)

This album taught a lot of intresting things about synthetic compostion, but at it's heart, all it consists of is Wendy Carlos describing the "Secrets of Synthesis" and using small music clips to accentuate her points. If that doesn't sound like it will interest you, then I wouldn't recommend it.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Analog Synth basics with Extras., July 28, 2006

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David Carlin (Philadelphia, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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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.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Audio Documentary, June 26, 2007

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K. Rowley (Austin, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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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.