Morton Subotnick
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Morton Subotnick (born April 13, 1933) is an American composer of minimal electronic music, best known for his Silver Apples of the Moon, the first electronic work commissioned by a record company, Nonesuch, and composed on the Buchla modular synthesizer which he helped to design.
Subotnick has also worked extensively with interactive electronics and multi-media, co-founding the San Francisco Tape Music Center with Ramon Sender, and often collaborating with his wife Joan La Barbara.
His notable students include Ingram Marshall and Lois V Vierk.
Selected works
- Silver Apples of the Moon (1967)
- The Wild Bull (1968)
- Touch (1969)
- Sidewinder (1971)
- Four Butterflies (1973)
- Until Spring (1975)
- A Sky of Cloudless Sulfur (1978)
- The Key to Songs (1985)
- Gestures (1999-2001)
External links
- [MortonSubotnick.com]
- [Morton Subotnick's Creating Music]
- [CalArts Faculty: Morton Subotnick]
- http://www.inmc.org/Subotnick.html
- [New Albion Artist: Morton Subotnick]
- [European American Music Distributors LLC: Morton Subotnick]
- [Malaspina Great Books: Morton Subotnick]
- [From Moog to Mark II, to MIDI to MAX] By Kyle Gann for American Public Media
Listening
- [Mars Millennium Project 2030: Artist: Morton Subotnick]
- [Morton Subotnick interview]
- [Art of the States: Morton Subotnick] Echoes from the Silent Call of Girona (1998)
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