Wendy Carlos = Walter Carlos

For years, the soundtrack was unavailable on CD, originally due to a dispute between Carlos and CBS Records.[citation needed] Carlos later discovered that the original master tapes had deteriorated to the point where attempting to play them could destroy both the tapes and the playback machine. Carlos used a technique called tape baking (in which the tapes were literally baked in an oven to harden the glue holding the magnetic tape together) to repair the tapes so she could transfer them to digital masters.

This interview was making the rounds on twitter, pretty cool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3cab5IcCy8

not a great thread title

Indeed. Happy Birthday, Wendy!

there are two wendy carlos threads and they both have titles like this, pretty sad

that interview clip is fantastic!

We should start a new thread.

Happy birthday, Wendy!

I'd be up for starting a new thread and locking this one, it's horrible reading back through this.

there is another shitted up Wendy Carlos thread that needs locking as well iirc

you are both otm

Hate this thread title.

Anyway, her music for The Shining is awesome, it's a scandal it's never been collected on a single release, as it is it's spread over two volumes of Rediscovering Lost Scores - which are, of course, impossible to find.