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Morton Subotnick (mortonsubotnick.com)
43 points by brudgers on Sept 21, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 12 comments



Subotnick was one of my first introductions to experimental music, in a composition class in 1977, taught by Merill Ellis at the University of North Texas. Recently I met Morton briefly in NYC, where he was giving a performance of a new work. He's quite an old man now, but full of creative energy and immense good humor.


Saw him give a performance of old+new work about six months ago. Was pretty blown away. Great visuals (by a collaborator) as well.


I first learned about Mr. Subotnick in a class about the development of electronic music, among other titans of the 20th century avant-garde music. Many of these composers will never earn the widespread appreciation they are due for their accomplishments, but they left an indelible mark on music production, and serve as inspiration for a surprisingly wide breadth of artists.


Interested to listen to more composers/musicians in this area. Could you recommend any?


Maybe The Classical Nerd YouTube channel?

https://youtube.com/c/ClassicalNerd

It covers more than the 20th century, but there are many hours of 20th century content.


Just going by Wayback Machine, it looks like the site is essentially unchanged since at least 2007. It was first indexed in 1998, however I didn't go back as far as that.


Well, it lists performances up to 2017 so someone was updating it to then. I saw him live earlier this year so it's seemingly been abandoned.


love his early Buchla stuff.


Please don't lick the Buchla.


Be careful touching it in general. A lot of people said the rotary sequencer was enlightening, but that's just because they never found the door of perception hidden inside the unit...


How am I suppose to explain this to my daughter!?!?! :P


Sorry, but Kanye and the Beatles crapped out more creative sounds per album than Subotnick did his entire career.

I tried to be impressed by him. I really did. My college electronic music grades would have been so much better if I were.

Goodbye, sweet HN karma...




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