Wendy Carlos
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Wendy Carlos is an American composer and electronic music pioneer best known for her groundbreaking Moog synthesizer work and influential film scores such as "A Clockwork Orange" and "Tron."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wendy Carlos canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1725457 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Wendy Carlos Context triple: [The Shining (1980 film), musicBy, Wendy Carlos]
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Jean-Michel Jarre
Jean-Michel Jarre is a pioneering French electronic music composer and producer known for his influential albums and spectacular large-scale outdoor concerts.
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B.
Vangelis
Vangelis was a Greek composer and pioneer of electronic and ambient music, renowned for his evocative synthesizer-based film scores such as those for "Chariots of Fire" and "Blade Runner."
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C.
Brad Fiedel
Brad Fiedel is an American composer best known for his synthesizer-driven film scores, including the iconic music for "The Terminator" series.
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D.
Albert Weinert
Albert Weinert was a German-American sculptor and monument designer known for his public memorials in the United States.
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E.
Dave Grusin
Dave Grusin is an American composer, arranger, and jazz pianist best known for his prolific film and television scores and for co-founding GRP Records.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Wendy Carlos Target entity description: Wendy Carlos is an American composer and electronic music pioneer best known for her groundbreaking Moog synthesizer work and influential film scores such as "A Clockwork Orange" and "Tron."
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A.
Jean-Michel Jarre
Jean-Michel Jarre is a pioneering French electronic music composer and producer known for his influential albums and spectacular large-scale outdoor concerts.
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B.
Vangelis
Vangelis was a Greek composer and pioneer of electronic and ambient music, renowned for his evocative synthesizer-based film scores such as those for "Chariots of Fire" and "Blade Runner."
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C.
Brad Fiedel
Brad Fiedel is an American composer best known for his synthesizer-driven film scores, including the iconic music for "The Terminator" series.
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D.
Albert Weinert
Albert Weinert was a German-American sculptor and monument designer known for his public memorials in the United States.
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E.
Dave Grusin
Dave Grusin is an American composer, arranger, and jazz pianist best known for his prolific film and television scores and for co-founding GRP Records.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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electronic musician ⓘ film score composer ⓘ human ⓘ pioneer of electronic music ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| birthName | Walter Carlos ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Carlos ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
electronic music
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film music ⓘ synthesizer music ⓘ |
| genre |
ambient music
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classical music ⓘ electronic music ⓘ film score ⓘ |
| givenName | Wendy ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | http://www.wendycarlos.com/ ⓘ |
| influenced |
electronic music composers
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synthesizer musicians ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Johann Sebastian Bach ⓘ |
| instrument |
Moog synthesizer
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synthesizer ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | electronic music revolution of the late 1960s ⓘ |
| name | Wendy Carlos self-link ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
early adopter of multitrack recording techniques for synthesizer
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helped establish electronic realizations of classical music ⓘ pioneered use of synthesizers in film scores ⓘ popularized the Moog synthesizer in mainstream music ⓘ |
| notableFor |
groundbreaking Moog synthesizer recordings
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innovative film scoring techniques ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Clockwork Orange (film score)
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Beauty in the Beast ⓘ Digital Moonscapes ⓘ Secrets of Synthesis ⓘ Sonic Seasonings ⓘ Switched-On Bach ⓘ Switched-On Brandenburgs ⓘ The Shining (film score) ⓘ The Well-Tempered Synthesizer ⓘ Tron (film score) ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ sound engineer ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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Subject: Wendy Carlos Description of subject: Wendy Carlos is an American composer and electronic music pioneer best known for her groundbreaking Moog synthesizer work and influential film scores such as "A Clockwork Orange" and "Tron."
Referenced by (6)
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