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)

1933 births | Living people | 20th century classical composers | American composers | Living classical composers | Electronic musicians

Morton Subotnick