I have so many stories about Wendy Carlos - one of my college teachers wrote the early moog manuals and was fond of saying “Walter was an asshole, Wendy was the

I have so many stories about Wendy Carlos - one of my college teachers wrote the early moog manuals and was fond of saying “Walter was an asshole, Wendy was the sweetest person I’ve ever met” - someone told me of a time they were synthesizing a trumpet and someone invited Wendy in, who listened for 20 seconds and said the third partial was a few dbs off, sure enough it sounded much more real after adjusting just that - but at the end of the day, something everyone forgets to acknowledge is just how great of a performer she was - switched on Bach wasn’t great because of the patches she used or the mixing or anything technical, she was really an amazing interpreter in the classical sense of Bach, and her works shine for it - pity that she is so regressive when it comes to digital rights, but a reminder that being a genius in one field does not make you a genius in related fields