Walter Carlos was born in Rhode Island on November 14th 1939. However Carlos realized when he was around 5 or 6 years old that he wanted to be a girl not a boy. He always preferred having long hair and wearing girls clothing. In 1972 Carlos decided to have a sex reassignment surgery that would make him the woman that he always wanted to be. Earning a Bachelors degree in music and physics from Brown University and a Master degree in composition from Columbia University Carlos would go on to become a pioneer in the world of electronic music. Later on Robert Moog and Carlos would collaborate together to develop a synthesizer that was new and unknown at the time. The synthesizer would be used in the production of A Clockwork Orange along with other projects. Most recently Carlos worked to release a two-volume set in 2005 of his old and out of print soundtracks. However since then it has stopped being made as a result of a change in the music business involving ESD.
In the movie A Clockwork Orange the song Singing in The Rain is used during the rape seen. This seems very out of place because that song is generally associated with happiness. However, that is precisely the reason why the song was used. As the viewer watches this seen in the movie they feel uncomfortable as a result of the impending doom of the victims. As Malcolm McDowell begins singing Singing in The Rain while he is prepares to rape the couple. The audience feels extreme horror that someone could be so excited about doing such a horrible thing. This feeling is exactly the reason why the song is used in such an ironic situation. It escalates the viewers emotional response to what is going on in the scene.
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