Secrets of Synthesis [ENHANCED]

Wendy Carlos (Composer), Wendy Carlos (Performer)

Product Details

• Performer: Wendy Carlos
• Composer: Wendy Carlos
• 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.com Sales Rank: #79,427 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Introduction: Brandenburg Concerto, No.3, Third Movement

2. Examples of Analog Timbres

3. Choral Tone, Vibrato, Articulatio: Symphnoy, No.9, Hard Soft Attacks

4. Vocal Synthesis: Domine Ad Adjuvandum/Symphony, No.9/Timesteps

5. Performance Values: Timesteps/Brandenburg, No.6/Bist du Bei Mir

6. Simple Orchestration: Pomp Rag/Brandenburg, No.1, First Movement/P ...

7. Electronic Pointillism & Hocketing: Sontat in D, K 491/Sontat in ...

8. For Spatial Motion: Geodesic Dance

9. Ensemble Performance Via Click-Tracks: Brandenburg Concerto, No.6, ...

10. Imintative Synthesis: Pompous Circumstances/William Tell

11. Musique Concrete Plus Synthesizer: Sonic Seasoning-Summer/Sonic ...

12. Orchestra With Synthesizer: Tron

13. Digital Synthesis: Lo/Ganymede

14. Digital vs. Analog: Lapetus/Nutcracker-Trepak

15. Hybrid Timbres: Luna

16. Alternative Tunnings-The Future: Ganymede

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

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

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

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.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	David Carlin (Philadelphia, PA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

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

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

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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.