Morton Subotnick
Composer
1933 –
Who is Morton Subotnick?
Morton Subotnick 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. He was one of the founding members of California Institute of the Arts where he taught for many years.
Subotnick has 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. Morton Subotnick is one of the pioneers in the development of electronic music and multi-media performance and an innovator in works involving instruments and other media, including interactive computer music systems. Most of his music calls for a computer part, or live electronic processing; his oeuvre utilizes many of the important technological breakthroughs in the history of the genre.
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- Born
- Apr 14, 1933
Los Angeles - Also known as
- Subotnick, Morton
- Spouses
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Master of Arts, Mills College
( - 1960) - Bachelor of Arts, University of Denver
English Literature
( - 1958)
- Master of Arts, Mills College
- Lived in
- New York City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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