3D Wendy Carlos & Hocketing. Rap: Back to Virtuosity?

[@GeeBee135]

Cool insight! Nice to hear how Wendy intuitively used the concept of hocketing to add some realistic dynamics to those early electronic recordings!

[@electronicperspectives]

Wendy Carlos has kindly been in touch with me after viewing my comments about her use of "hocketing." She indicates that she had worked with Bob Moog to have expressive touch sensitivity on her keyboards prior to Switched-On Bach and The Well Tempered Clavier, and that she used hocketing for timbre changes and stereo positioning solely, and quite a bit later. My example of the idea of making the first note of a group of four sixteenths louder, and the others softer was strictly illustrative-as an easily understood example of what one might do by placing notes on different tracks. Of course, Wendy would never have done something as obvious as that! Thanks Wendy, for this clarification. It's tough to keep the historical record straight! Tom Rhea.

[@mikebozik]

Incredibly enlightening! Thank you.

[@electronicperspectives]

Thank you too! People really have no idea how Wendy Carlos produced her switched-on music, to say nothing of her more-advanced microtonal music such as "Beauty In The Beast," which I heartily recommend to you.

[@mikebozik]

@electronicperspectives yes, I will definitely check it out. My father had Switched On Bach in his record collection from many years ago. I have listened to it and thought it was quite interesting.

[@electronicperspectives]

The straight skinny from Wendy Carlos regarding her use of hocketing: " . . . . if you want to point out the hocketing, you can say it was to make otherwise rather static passages “dance around the room in stereo” and keep changing the timbres, too. It was not for expression-that came from the prototype touch sensitive keyboards-but a way to make a four-square passage feel more alive and playful, which is why I did it, the dancing around the room was meant just that-lightly and humanly!"

[@CicadaMania]

@TomBrislin you might like this interview.