Morton Subotnick

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Morton Subotnick

American composer

From
Los Angeles, United States
Since
1933–present
Releases
21
  • classical
  • contemporary classical
  • electroacoustic
  • experimental
  • experimental electronic

About

Morton Subotnick (born April 14, 1933) is an American composer of electronic music, best known for his 1967 composition 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.

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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. 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.

From Morton Subotnick on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Discography

Albums 14
Compilations 6
Other 1

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Tags

  • composer
  • to clean up

Identifiers

ISNI
0000000063092521
IPI
00029845259

Data from MusicBrainz, saved 13 Nov 2026. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, covers from the Cover Art Archive and Apple Music.