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Beauty in the Beast

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| name = Beauty in the Beast
| type = studio
| artist = Wendy Carlos
| cover = Beauty in the Beast album cover.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{Start date|1986|}}
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Classical
| length = {{Duration|m=57|s=41}}
| label = Audion Records
| producer = Wendy Carlos
| prev_title = Digital Moonscapes
| prev_year = 1984
| next_title = Secrets of Synthesis
| next_year = 1990
}}

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. On the back she includes a quote by Van Gogh: "I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it."

As the liner notes state, the entire album is synthesized, meaning that "All the music and sounds heard on this recording were directly digitally generated. This eliminates all the limitations of microphones, the weak link necessary in nearly all other digital recordings, including those that use 'sampling' technologies."^[1]

Track listing

{{Track listing| extra_column = Musical content | title1 = Incantation | extra1 = "tritone rich" | length1 = 6:45
| title2 = Beauty In The Beast | extra2 = Beta and Alpha scales | length2 = 3:57
| title3 = Poem For Bali | extra3 = Pelog and Slendro tunings | length3 = 17:39
| title4 = Just Imaginings | extra4 = Harmonic Scale with modulation | length4 = 12:06
| title5 = That's Just It | extra5 = Harmonic Scale, jazz | length5 = 3:36
| title6 = Yusae-Aisae | note6 = pronounced "You say I say" | extra6 = Harmonic Scale, "Hollywoodesque Mid-Eastern marketplace" | length6 = 3:12
| title7 = C'est Afrique | extra7 = African rhythm | length7 = 6:13
| title8 = A Woman's Song | extra8 = Bulgarian Sheperdess's "Izel je Delyo Hajdutin" with tambura and dilruba, instead of Bulgarian bagpipes, appropriate raga tuning, western horns, crotales, and several hybrid timbres | length8 = 4:10
|total_length = 57:41
}}

Reviews

Dave Benson wrote: {{cquote|It seems that for most users of synthesizers the extra freedom has not had much effect, in the sense that most music involving synthesizers is written using the equal tempered twelve tone scale. A notable exception is Wendy Carlos, who has composed a great deal of music for synthesizers using many different scales. [Benson] particularly recommend[s] Beauty in the Beast...(SYNCD 200, Audion, 1986, Passport Records, Inc.).^[2]

The music on this album cuts through a lot of the conventions and restraints that were used as frameworks for previous releases: instrumentation, tonality, and scaling, to name just a few^[3]}}

References

1. ^Carlos, Wendy (2000/1986). "Liner notes", Beauty in the Beast. ESD 81552.
2. ^Benson, Dave (2006). Music: A Mathematical Offering, p.207. {{ISBN|0-521-85387-7}}.
3. ^"Beauty in the Beast", AllMusic.com.

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