Carlos' Influence

Finally, it seems from various interviews with Tomita that Carlos’ work was what drove him to begin emulating composers through the use of Synthesis and her role plays an important part in Tomita’s story. Carlos propelled the synthesizer into the conscience of the public and helped pave the way for the influx of synth-based artists throughout the 1970’s and onwards. Her composition was well met by not just the audience but her peers as is stated on her website.
“In collaboration with Rachel Elkind, who served as her producer for a dozen years, Carlos hit platinum status with her 1968 recording Switched on Bach, which propelled the Moog synthesizer into the public consciousness and won three Grammy Awards. She refined her techniques in The Well-Tempered Synthesizer and introduced the use of Vocodas for synthesized singing in her score for Stanley Kubrick’s film, A Clockwork Orange, long before space war movies made synthetic voices common. Her haunting Sonic Seasonings in 1972 predated the now popular environmental-ambient forms of New Age music by over a decade. After recording several more albums in a classical vein, Carlos wrote horror music for Kubrick’s The Shinning and composed the score for the 1982 Disney film Tron