Pioneer electronic musician responsible for the following: Switched on Bach, Sonic Seasonings, score for Clockwork Orange, partial music for The Shining, score for Disney's Tron, Beauty in the Beast, Digital Moonscapes, A Clockwork Black - Tales from Heaven and Hell.

Notably, Wendy Carlos was originally known as Walter Carlos and underwent a sex change operation during the late 1960's. Wendy was a still known as Walter during his work with Robert Moog in the mid sixties, but had become Wendy by the time of Switched-On Bach.

Compare the early photo at www.obsolete.com/120_years/machines/moog/index.html to the later stuff at www.wendycarlos.com

Wendy Carlos has quite a few choice words for those who discuss her in terms of biology:

Right now I'm very angry, angry and weary that more than just a few creepy asses cannot or will not get past a few events in my personal history of long ago. It's Pavlovian business, bypassing their brains, short circuiting any better taste and judgment they may possess. Then whenever I protest their stereotyping, like rapists over the ages, they feign surprise and insist this is somehow an honest compliment, to just sit back and enjoy it. When I finally must defend my rights, what next appears is the specter of a self-righteous monster roaring its head off, full of arrogance and dogma and warped logic, all the weapons of a bigot. They don't even wait until I'm dead to slander me, when it no longer would be considered slander. That makes it inevitable that when I do die my sexuality will constitute their one phrase cliched description (= dismissal) of me, the bastards. Watch if I'm not right on this, when I won't be here to do it myself...

Her breathtakingly painful tirade against "the bastards" is well worth reading.

SOURCE: http://www.wendycarlos.com/pruri.html

Wendy is also responsible for providing the synthesized music (not the accordions, of course) for "Weird Al" Yankovic's underappreciated interpretation of Sergei Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf."

The Disney 20th anniversary 2-disc Tron DVD set includes some of the deleted pieces of the original score Wendy composed for the movie, including a lively, free-form, neo-classical piece during the lightcycle scene. All music was cut from the final theatrical release of this scene, as the synthesized music was deemed too busy, which distracted viewers from the cutting-edge sound and visual effects.