Morton Subotnick
Morton Subotnick, born in Los Angeles in 1933, is an American composer of electronic music, best known for Silver Apples of the Moon (1967), the first electronic work commissioned by a record label. He made it on the Buchla synthesizer, the instrument he had helped bring into being when he co-founded the San Francisco Tape Music Center in 1961 with Ramon Sender and Pauline Oliveros. At a time when electronic music was abstract and wary of pulse, Subotnick broke with the academic avant-garde by writing sections of regular, dancing rhythm, and The Wild Bull and Touch followed the same path.
Morton Subotnick, born in Los Angeles in 1933, is an American composer of electronic music, best known for Silver Apples of the Moon (1967), the first electronic work commissioned by a record label. He made it on the Buchla synthesizer, the instrument he had helped bring into being when he co-founded the San Francisco Tape Music Center in 1961 with Ramon Sender and Pauline Oliveros. At a time when electronic music was abstract and wary of pulse, Subotnick broke with the academic avant-garde by writing sections of regular, dancing rhythm, and The Wild Bull and Touch followed the same path.
