Performer: | Wendy Carlos |
Title: | Digital Moonscapes |
Country: | US |
Released: | 1984 |
Style: | Ambient |
Category: | Electronic |
Rating: | 4.9 ✦ |
Other format: | XM MMF MIDI FLAC DXD MP3 VOC |
Even though the original album was a digital recording, the subsequent mastering process appears to have wreaked havoc with the tonal qualities of her work, rendering it harsh and unpleasant. The tonal qualities are no longer harsh and tiring to listen to, the music has an impressive depth to it, and there is a new level of detail that simply was not noticeable in the original
That required a several hundred details to be programmed for each note of each instrument with various dynamic levels and performing methods, and apparently took a few years to create 70 % to 95 % succesfull replicas of the 'real' instruments.
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Digital Moonscapes (1984) is an album by Wendy Carlos. Written for orchestra (or orchestra replica), it is inspired by several astronomical subjects. These used additive and complex FM/PM modulation. Beauty in the Beast is a studio album from the American keyboardist and composer Wendy Carlos, released in 1986 on Audion Records, her first for a different label other than Columbia Records since 1968. The album uses alternate musical tunings and scales, influenced by jazz and world music.
Digital Moonscapes was originally released in 1984. Reissued in tandem with Beauty in the Beast, these two albums present the extremes of Wendy Carlos. Beauty in the Beast is a work of rare originality and synthesis, both electronically and through its musicology. Fourteen years after its release, Beauty still sounds sonically rich and musically daring. Digital Moonscapes, however, sounded clumsy and contrived 16 years ago and little has changed . Digital Moonscapes" is a musical reflection of her interest in astronomical subjects. As such, it is much more personal than her Baroque realizations or her film scores. It has its interesting moments, and demands repeat listenings for a full understanding.
Artists Wendy Carlos Digital Moonscapes. Digital Moonscapes Wendy Carlos. This album has an average beat per minute of BPM (slowest/fastest tempos:, BPM). See its BPM profile at the bottom of the page. Tracklist Digital Moonscapes.
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Is Digital Moonscapes the best album by Wendy Carlos? BestEverAlbums. com brings together thousands of 'greatest ever album' charts and calculates an overall ranking. Digital Moonscapes by Wendy Carlos (1984) Overall rank: 50,513th. Accolades: Top albums of 1984 (638th). Top albums of the 1980s (6,543rd). Best albums of all time (50,513th). a b "Digital Moonscapes", WendyCarlos.
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Cosmological Impressions | |
A1.1 | Genesis |
A1.2 | Eden |
A1.3 | I.C. (Intergalactic Communications) |
Moonscapes (Beginning) | |
A2.1 | Luna |
A2.2 | Phobos And Deimos |
Moonscapes (Conclusion) | |
B1.1 | Ganymede |
B1.2 | Europa |
B1.3 | Io |
B1.4 | Callisto |
B1.5 | Rhea |
B1.6 | Titan |
B1.7 | Iapetus |
Category | Artist | Title (Format) | Label | Category | Country | Year |
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M 39340, 39340 | Wendy Carlos'* | Digital Moonscapes - An Evolutionary Synthesizer Tour de Force (LP, Album, Gat) | CBS Masterworks Digital, CBS Masterworks | M 39340, 39340 | US | 1984 |
MK 39340 | Wendy Carlos | Wendy Carlos' Digital Moonscapes (An Evolutionary Synthesizer Tour De Force) (CD, Album) | CBS Masterworks | MK 39340 | USA, Canada & Europe | 1984 |
IM 39340, M 39340, 39340 | Wendy Carlos | Digital Moonscapes (LP, Album) | CBS Masterworks Digital, CBS Masterworks Digital, CBS Masterworks Digital | IM 39340, M 39340, 39340 | Netherlands | 1984 |
MK 39340 | Wendy Carlos | Wendy Carlos' Digital Moonscapes (An Evolutionary Synthesizer Tour De Force) (CD, Album) | CBS Masterworks | MK 39340 | Canada | 1984 |
M 39340 | Wendy Carlos | Digital Moonscapes (LP, Album) | CBS Masterworks | M 39340 | Canada | 1984 |