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This looks fascinating. It's not often that someone is a pioneer both artistically and on such a personal level. Those of you who were around can attest to the popularity of the Switched On Bach album in 1968--and the follow-up albums; A Clockwork Orange, which came a few years after, added to Carlos's legacy.
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Wendy's website, http:\\www.wendycarlos.com, doesn't get updated much, but Wendy did post the following (on the home page) to express her opinion of this biography:
Please be aware there’s a purported “Biography” on me just released. It belongs on the fiction shelf. No one ever interviewed me, nor anyone I know. There's zero fact-checking. Don’t recognize myself anywhere in there—weird. Sloppy, dull and dubious, it's hardly an objective academic study as it pretends to be.
This slim, mean-sprited volume is based on several false premises. All of it is speculation taken out of context. The key sources are other people’s write-ups of interviews done for magazine articles. There’s simply no way to know what’s true or not—nothing is first-hand.
The book is presumptuous. Pathetically, it accepts as “factual” a grab-bag of online urban legends, including anonymous axes to grind. The author imputes things she doesn’t understand, misses the real reasons for what was done or not done. She’s in way over her head, outside any areas of expertise, and even defames my dear deceased parents—shame!
I wish Wendy would write an autobiography, so we'd have her story.
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