A Lecture by Composer MORTON SUBOTNICK:
The Tape Recorder, the Transistor and the Credit Card: The Technological Big Bang A Personal History
Thursday, February 5, 2015
7:30 pm
Littlefield Concert Hall
Free and open to the public
Composer Morton Subotnick will discuss his music and personal history of the 1960s-70s music scene in a lecture title "The Tape Recorder, The transistor, The Credit Card, and the Technological Big Bag: A Personal History”. Starting in the late 50s, Subotnick recognized that an imminent technology explosion would offer, for the first time in history, an alternative to the centuries-old three person model of the solitary composer, alone at a desk writing music with pen and paper, the performer reading and performing the music on an instrument, and the audience in an auditorium. He began his life’s work of creating a new music in a technologically impacted world; a world yet to come.
Subotnick’s early works, starting with Silver Apples of the Moon and ending with A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur, created a new ‘chamber music’, music specifically for the turntable and intended to be heard in the privacy of one’s home. Silver Apples of the Moon has become a modern classic and in 2009 it became one of only 400 recordings entered into the National Recording Registry of Works at the Library of Congress.
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Morton Subotnick will be at Mills College for a week as the Jean Macduff Vaux Composer-in-Residence. There will be a concert of his music on Saturday, February 7 at 8:00pm in Littlefield Concert Hall.
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Mills College
5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland, CA 94613
http://musicnow.mills.edu
Cost: Free Admission