Editing Wendy Carlos (section)

== Early life ==
Carlos was born in [[Pawtucket, Rhode Island]], to working-class parents Clarence and Mary Carlos<ref name="wcarlos">{{cite web |last1=Carlos |first1=Clarence Joseph |title=Clarence Joseph Carlos (1906-2003) |url=https://www.wendycarlos.com/parents/ |website=Wendy Carlos |access-date=21 October 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Sewell |first1=Amanda |title=Wendy Carlos: A Biography |date=2020 |publisher=OUP |isbn=978-0-19-005346-8 |page=7}}</ref> Her parents married in 1937<ref>{{cite web |title=60th Wedding Anniversary of Clarence & Mary 1937-1997 |url=https://www.wendycarlos.com/parents/momdad60th.jpg |website=Wendy Carlos |access-date=21 October 2024}}</ref><ref>The "Index to Marriages in Massachusetts 1931-1935" states the year of marriage as 1931.</ref>  and Carlos was the first of two children.<ref name= playboy1979 /> Her mother played the piano and sang; one uncle played the trombone and another played the trumpet and drums.<ref name= playboy1979 /> She began piano lessons at age six,<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.wendycarlos.com/biog.html |title=Wendy Carlos: Biographical Notes |publisher= Wendy Carlos | work = WendyCarlos.com |access-date=July 24, 2012 |archive-date=July 31, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120731001629/http://www.wendycarlos.com/biog.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and wrote her first composition, "A Trio for Clarinet, Accordion, and Piano", at age ten.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.furious.com/perfect/wendycarlos.html |title=The Burden of Faltering Genius |first=Mark S. |last=Tucker |publisher=Perfect Sound Forever |date=May 2007 |access-date=July 24, 2012 |archive-date=March 11, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130311143949/http://www.furious.com/perfect/wendycarlos.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Carlos attended [[St. Raphael Academy]], a Catholic high school in Pawtucket. In 1953, at fourteen, Carlos won a scholarship by building a computer presented at the [[Intel Science Talent Search|Westinghouse Science Fair]], a science competition for high-school students.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-05-28|title=Wendy Carlos|url=https://www.mmone.org/wendy-carlos/|access-date=2020-10-28|website= mmone.org| publisher= The Music Museum of New England| language=en-US|archive-date= November 1, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201101095952/https://www.mmone.org/wendy-carlos/|url-status=live}}</ref> From 1958 to 1962, Carlos studied at [[Brown University]] and graduated with a degree in music and physics, during which she taught lessons in [[electronic music]] at informal sessions.<ref name= sonicseasoningssleeve />