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.

Selected works

  • Silver Apples of the Moon (1967)
  • The Wild Bull (1968)
  • Touch (1969)
  • Sidewinder (1971)
  • Four Butterflies (1973)
  • The Key to Songs (1985)

External links

Listening

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