The
Wendy
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(Listed with most recent albums towards the top. Hit Reload to be sure you're getting latest update of this or any other page, or even better, trash your cache. Click on any cover image for a close-up view.) Note: Due to major changes in the music business, we unexpectedly lost our ESD distrubution, leaving us stranded with few good options. We expect to have news on a new set of releases of Wendy's albums, plus a return to regular additions on the site as soon as possible. Until our new arrangements are complete, we're leaving this page with the last updated links, which can still find copies (where available) through various sources. Meanwhile, thank you sincerely for your many concerned inquiries and patience, good friends.
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New
20-bit Hi-D releases on East
Side Digital
(and
other available titles):
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Title and CD Number |
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= volume one = Includes music for Kubrick's A ClockworkOrange and The Shining. = ESD 81752 = |
= Brand New Album! = 32 tracks of unique filmmusic, |
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= volume two = Includes music for Kubrick's The Shining and Disney's TRON. = ESD 81762 = |
= Brand New Album! = 29 tracks of unique filmmusic, |
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(The 25th Anniversary sequel to S-OB, in a new ESD CD release. Optimum Remastered Edition.) = ESD 81732 = |
This 1992 CD commemorates the |
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(Music as you requested, an album created to satisfy our faithful fans. Optimum Remastered Edition.) = ESD 81692 = |
= First Time On CD! = Beautifully restored from the |
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(Wendy narrates and demonstrates the inside story ofhow the music is created. Optimum Remastered Edition.) = ESD 81702 = |
Optimized original 1986 masters, |
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(A groundbreaking score combining orchestra, chorus, with both analog and digital synthesis Optimum Remastered Edition.) = Disney 60748-7 = |
= First Time On CD! = Optimum remastering in Hi-D 20-bit, |
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(The delightful sequel to the original S-OB, in our new Optimum Remastered Edition.) = ESD 81622 = |
Beautifully restored original 1974 |
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(2-CD set of all six of J.S. Bach's Concerto Masterpieces, in our new Optimum Remastered Edition.) = ESD 81632 = |
Beautifully restored original 1979 |
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(The Triple-Grammy winning album that launched the synthesizer, in our new Optimum Remastered Edition.) = ESD 81602 = |
A Classic, Better Than Ever! Beautifully restored original 1968 |
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(Long sought after, finally available on CD, in our new Optimum Remastered Edition.) = ESD 81612 = |
= First Time On CD! = Beautifully restored original 1969 |
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(The kaleidoscopic adventure into timbre and tuning. Unavailable since 1987, now on our new Optimum Remastered Edition.) = ESD 81552 = |
Released Fall 2000 Beautifully restored original 1987 |
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(Music for the major moons of our Solar System and the Cosmos. Debut of The LSI Philharmonic, now on our new Optimum Remastered Edition.) = ESD 81542 = |
Optimumally restored original 1984 |
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(4-CD set, with bonus tracks, 2 colorful books (over 200 pages), the definitive Deluxe Collectors Edition.) = ESD 81422 = |
Hear it all as never before. Ultra |
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Land of the Midnight Sun (2-CD set, with bonus tracks, in our new Optimum Remastered Edition.) = ESD 81372 = |
Optimum transfers of the original 1972 |
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(the complete Carlos filmscore, including all of TimeSteps, in our new Optimum Remastered Edition.) = ESD 81362 = |
Optimum transfers from the original |
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(featuring Clockwork Black) = ESD 81352 = |
If you dare--enter this roller-coaster |
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All
of the above albums and audio examples are available
to browse, and you can conveniently purchase albums
at the Amazon
webstore (this
link takes you to ALL their Wendy Carlos album
listings, in one place).
We're linking each album to them directly above
because currently Amazon provides their familiar
fast service with decent discount pricing. It's easy
to go directly there just by clicking on any of the
small CD images to the right above. Alternatively,
you may prefer to purchase in a local music store,
or browse an online store of your choice. For
example, you can try Barnes and Noble or Borders,
(we've placed some clickable icons below for your
convenience). (Clicking one of the small CD images in the upper right column above usually bypasses these steps, and links directly to the Amazon page for that particular album, where you may also audition the music on most titles before buying.) 
For
Reviews, Liner Notes, and lots of
interesting Background Info, click the
appropriate "Learn more about". Quite a few of your
questions on general topics about Wendy Carlos
albums are answered on the Disc Notes page.
To listen to audio examples on the above CD's, and
to purchase, click one of the small CD images.  |
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Temporarily
Out
of Print (commentary
on several earlier editions.)
Peter & the Wolf
(with Al Yankovic)CBS/Sony MK 44567
An original, improbable pairing of artists. The CD included an original Carnival of the Animals, pt. 2. The result is musical humor in a very fresh new way. Learn more about this album. Recently out of print, according to Sony Music (stay tuned). Disney's TRON
SoundtrackCBS/Sony CBS 37782
First CD release was through Disney, in early 2002, including many never-before released bonust tracks! Read more about it here!
Also see our all new album:
Rediscovering Lost Scores volume two(Ignore those horrid pirate CD's, dubs from old cassettes, being sold by some sources for big bucks.)
The
Shining - Most of the
score
has never been released, and was not included in the final film
version. So to those of you who have heard or like the
soundtrack, to
quote Jolson: "You ain't heard nothin' yet!" Most of the
film
was scored (as is Stanley's habit) using "needle drops"
(generally,
selections from commercial recordings -- check the film credits
for a
list, as this may be the music you're responding to). We
provided the
film's title music, the dark music for family's drive up the
mountain, and several textures within the film -- that's all
that
Kubrick used from our hours of tracks. A long, familiar
story.
The textures were not much to
hear by themselves, and were wisely not included on the original
soundtrack LP (Warner Bros. LP 3449). As for all the fine music
that
we wrote but wasn't used, some of it it sits in a "legal limbo",
while other cues should make it into a forthcoming ESD
Collection of
my film score music. But it will have to wait until the more
straightforward CD releases are
completed.
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Good news about the score to The Shining: With the 2005 release of our newest two albums, Rediscovering Lost Scores, volume one and volume two, most of our score for The Shining, much of it unavailable until now, can be heard in Hi-D sound. The first volume includes the earlier studio tracks created for Kubrick from 1978 through late 1979. Volume two includes many orchestral tracks, and several tracks which mix live and electroacoustic sounds, created as the project wound down in early 1980. As the notes explain, some of these tracks will be very familiar to those who know the film, but in more richly orchestrated versions than were finally chosen. And others depict a lost worlds of possibilities for the film left unexplored on its release. READ MORE ALSO HERE. |
Woundings
- The film score from the yet unreleased (in USA) British
antiwar
film, has been unavailable until recently. We're pleased to
announce
that much of the music from the score is now included on our
newest
Hi-D album, Rediscovering
Lost Scores, volume two,
above. The film has been shown in the States at several
independent
film screenings, to excellent acclaim, and should make it to
video/DVD (it IS available in European editions, region 2
encoding,
as of early 2005). We'll let you know here if it does become
available on a region one encoded disk, for North America.
(Addendum
in
June '05: this film
is now
available on a
Sterling DVD,
region one encoded, # 40730, under the title: "Brand
New World." Google
that name
and "DVD" to find a copy. Movies
Unlimited as of this
writing
lists a bargain price for the disk. Click their "Search by
Title"
button to the upper left, then type in "brand new world" to see
if
it's still available there. This is for your information only,
as we
neither control nor receive any royalty on DVDs.)
Currently
Unavailable Music -
There
were a couple of volumes of Bach's
Greatest Hits,
which
CBS assembled on their own during my years there, and a few
other
similar collections, (we learned of these years later, and have
never
seen or heard them). Two of my earliest compositions from
graduate
student days at Columbia University were included on an early LP
from
Turnabout, TV 34004S, called simply: "Electronic
Music". One of these,
a
composition for live piano and tape, plus another related work,
were
included in new performances by Phillip Ramey on the 1975
By
Request album
(available in
a
new Hi-D remastering).
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Good news about the score to A Clockwork Orange: With the 2005 release of our newest two albums, Rediscovering Lost Scores, volume one, several tracks for Clockwork Orange, unavailable until now, can be heard in Hi-D sound. During the "Quintessential Archeomusicology" portion of assembling these two volumes several older tapes were discovered to contain CO tracks which had been mislabeled, and were overlooked when we put together our definitive soundtrack collection of music for the film. We were pleased to discover three tracks which had not been heard since 1971 and they are included here, available for the first time. READ MORE. |
Tron
- Was available for the first
time on CD on a 2002 Disney release (additional
information above).
An LP of
the music score was released with the film in 1982 (LP on CBS
37782,
and cassettes). That sold out in the mid 80's. A deluxe
letterboxed
LaserDisk of Tron
came out in 1996, Disney 6141 CS, which contained some of the
deleted
music restored in a Supplemental Section. (I made special mixes
for
them as a favor.) This edition formed the basis for the new 2002
DVD
of the film, which includes those restored music tracks as well.
While preparing the new bonus mixes I discovered there was a
major
problem with the master tapes -- they had become unplayable! A
few
tracks were transferred after hours of struggle, the rest would
not
play at all, or even rewind! The urathane-based binder had
absorbed
atmospheric moisture and turned into glue -- phooey!
After searching for the most
authoritative recommendations (thank you, Eddie Ciletti!), we
reported on these pages some good news, on
Go Bake a Tape, or Tron Lives!
After slowly baking each tape in a carefully adjusted and timed
dehydrator, the masters temporarily returned to good playable
condition, I made Hi-D transfers right away, and they sound
wonderful. There things sat for the better part of three
frustrating
years (encouraging many poor quality pirate editions to "fill
the
demand") until Disney's 2002 decision to release a new CD of the
score at along with the DVD edition of the film. Read more of
the
story HERE.
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Good news about the score to TRON: With the 2005 release of our newest two albums, Rediscovering Lost Scores, volume two, several tracks for TRON, unavailable until now, can be heard in Hi-D sound. As the notes explain, some of these final master tracks were dropped late in the production of the film for extra-musical reasons. And others were test tracks which developed into the final versions heard on the soundtrack. While the Disney CD seems to have become unavailable for the moment (we're looking into it), this new album contains several favorite themes and moods from the film in arrangements which have been unavailable before now. READ MORE. |
Any album titles not mentioned above were
not made by me, and I have no connection
with them at all! (Note: a few tracks of
mine, from the above albums, were included on a
handful of CBS compilations in the 70's &
80's, as mentioned just above.) When SOB
first came out there was the expected flurry of
"Me-2" albums, and some had titles that attempted
to suggest they were sequels to mine, "Switched-On
This or That," puns on "Bach" and "Moog." I
couldn't keep track of them all, and the others
that have followed since then. Most I've heard
were unfortunately rather poor, including more
recent Me-2-ers, granting that I'm particularly
fussy about making music via electronic media. A
handful, for example by Dick Hyman and Gil
Trythall, were fresh and decent. (The late, great
SF author,Ted Sturgeon, was so right: "99% of
EVERYTHING is crud!"! Haven't you noticed? ;-) --Wendy Carlos
So as for your questions of where you
might find: "Moozart's Moogsical Cow" (sorry), or:
"Switched-At-Birth Salieri" (wotta concept) the
short answer is: "Say again??!" Occasionally one
of you will mention an album whose title is
vaguely familiar to me. More often not. Since I'm
a rather poor detective myself, I confess to
having few good ideas how to track down an album
title that perhaps had a limited run years ago,
and has never been reissued in any form. If you
know the company that released it originally, you
might try writing them or their successor. Have
you tried one of the more powerful, ubiquitous Web
Search Engines like Google?
Put a "+" sign before each critical term, and put
quotes around multiword search terms, like: [
+Moog +record +"The Ill-Tempered Sympathizer"
+"P.D.Q. Bach" ]. And since you know now it's not
my recording, add a "minus" term: [ -Carlos ], so
you won't be led back here. You may turn up some
clues...
A decent library may have old issues of
record guides that would help you track down that
title, company and number that haunts you. I know
how it is, and have yet to find every movie,
recording, book or magazine article that I think
back on fondly years later. As for some past
treasures that I HAVE managed to find (brace
yourself), the worst case is that the memory is
often much better than the reality. Ooff!
But sometimes you do find a lost "gem" or two.
Good hunting to you!
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