Rachel Elkind (born February 23, 1939) is an American classical musician, record producer and composer. She produced the work of
Wendy Carlos
Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos, November 14, 1939) is an American musician and composer best known for her electronic music and film scores. Born and raised in Rhode Island, Carlos studied physics and music at Brown University before moving ...
, most notably the bestselling 1968 album ''
Switched-On Bach
''Switched-On Bach'' is the debut album by American composer Wendy Carlos, originally released under her birth name Walter Carlos in October 1968 by Columbia Records. Produced by Carlos and Rachel Elkind, the album is a collection of pieces by J ...
''.
Elkind grew up in
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...
. She moved to
New York City
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hoping to be a jazz singer.
Elkind worked closely with Carlos from 1967 to 1980, when she moved to France with her husband, Yves Tourre. Carlos considers Elkind's contribution to her work underappreciated, calling her "a 'silent' partner" and her work "critical to my success". Elkind's singing voice was processed via a
vocoder
A vocoder (, a portmanteau of ''voice'' and ''encoder'') is a category of speech coding that analyzes and synthesizes the human voice signal for audio data compression, multiplexing, voice encryption or voice transformation.
The vocoder was ...
on several Carlos recordings. She is also credited as co-composer for ''
The Shining'' film score.
She also produced the album ''One Voice Many'' by the rock band Michaelangelo in 1971 for Columbia Records.
References
External links
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Rachel Elkind-Tourrefro
Wendy Carlos' official site
1939 births
Living people
Record producers from California
Record producers from New York (state)
Grammy Award winners
American film score composers
Place of birth missing (living people)
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