Morton Subotnick (Los Angeles, California, April 14, 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. 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 Pauline Oliveros and Ramon Sender, 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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