Wendy Carlos' influence

Wendy Carlos is an composer who specialises in electronic music and music for scores. I first heard about her in a workshop we had where we reviewed the opening scene from a Clockwork Orange where she put Henry Percell's 'Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary'  through a Moog synthesiser for the main theme throughout. I thought this was really interesting as the mix between classical music and electronic music is a experiment that in this instant worked and is described as being 'a unique fusion' [1], combining the factor of the main character, Alex DeLarge's, love of classical music into the futuristic setting it is in. 
As Carlos is an electronic composer, I thought this would aid me in researching ideas for the scene I have to compose for War of the Worlds as I imagined my alien to be completely electronically composed on Logic and would rely heavily on the synth like Carlos did. 
In the article 'Wendy Carlos, March from A Clockwork Orange' she says 'Synthesising was almost like sound sculpting - you'd adjust the dial to make it sound better. To polish my craft, I tried to synthesise known instruments like the violin, drum or oboe.' [2]

I really liked the idea of manipulating a standard instrument with a synthesiser to create a sound. I felt that the alien in the clip itself was quite musical in itself, found in research of the actual sound for the film, with the terrifying horn to signify their arrival. Music is something to be enjoyed and the alien's turn it into something to to signify fear. 

[1] [2] JACKSON, Blair (2002) Wendy Carlos, March from A Clockwork Orange [online] Last accessed 17 December 2012 at http://web.ebscohost.com.lcproxy.shu.ac.uk/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=0cf5c595-8d8d-4eaa-a8cc-6542f5dfc793%40sessionmgr115&vid=2&hid=125