Morton Subotnick
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Morton Subotnick (born April 13, 1933 in Los Angeles, California) is an American composer of 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.
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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
[edit] 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)
- Subotnick's The Double Life of Amphibians at the Avant Garde Project has FLAC files made from high-quality LP transcriptions available for free download.
 This article on a U.S. composer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
