Morton Subotnick: The Mad Scientist in the Laboratory of the Ecstatic Moment

[@johndoe-rp3hz]

Morton! I hope you read this. Your work was REQUIRED LISTENING in Juilliard. When I heard it in 1970 I said, Now THAT's what I want to do! Thank you!

[@dougn7bfs]

Listened to his work over 40 years ago when I was an early teen, in my junior high electronic music class, my teacher was way ahead of her time, still have a copy of Silver Apples of the Moon

[@davephillips1263]

Similar story here. I heard Silver Apples and Wild Bull when I was in my early 20s, about 50 years ago. Many years later I attended some great concerts of his music in Los Angeles. Btw, check out the interview with him in Cole Gagnes's book Soundpieces 2.

[@michael_harren]

I took waaaay to long to discover this guy. Wow. How do I get my first 44 years back?

[@TheoGregoire]

I'm in my 49th year, and am struggling with the very same said question.

[@sclogse1]

His Touch recording was big fun on headphones back in 1972. I was playing this stuff in an Army barracks in Fort Ord on a basic but decent Panasonic stereo.

[@markovchains573]

I hope his works will be more and more rated and popular! Thank you Morton!

[@richardblake9969]

This is awesome. What a wise human being.

[@holyworrier]

I attended a demonstration by Subotnick at the Memphis Academy of Arts in '86. His gear spread out on tables, the room with quad sound. At times the music whirled around in a tight eddy.

[@MrInterestingthings]

Subotnick is important and he offered a completely new aesthetic bases on new materials !

[@philipcramer940]

Fantastic short interview. Absolutely packed full of cool information 😊

[@susoflores4430]

amazing, thanks for the inspiration

[@joelizquierdo]

Wow! Tremendous respect to you sir.

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

still love it!!

[@christoroppolo8742]

I am so lucky to have jammed with him . After a lecture. Peace Christo 👽🎶🎶🎶

[@chrisnagy1429]

The library used to be a cool place for discovering stuff like this. Maybe still is, just glad it's there, somewhere.

[@stefanhansen5882]

Interesting! Isn't it at 12-keys keyboard he is playing at 3:30-just after saying that they didn't want that?

[@lunaticwaldo7029]

WOW!!!!

[@MrPiha]

very cool

[@LechugaZafiro]

❤❤❤❤

[@Broadpath_Intermedia]

My new role model for growing older

[@brianhorner8349]

I keep trying to imitate Mort. Its almost impossible.

[@andrewvincent5472]

Yay! ♡ in multiples.

[@sammencia7945]

Just go through every tone count step possible. Randomize it for every next sound played. 12.3 tones 12.8. 51 29.014 So on. Computer allows for that.

[@dvamateur]

Good stuff. I like keyboards though, and guitar strings, and drums. (As long as it's Western or Far Eastern. Like koto, but don't like sitar much...)

[@nikolaidotkey]

Does anybody know when "Red Apples of the Mars" will be out ?

[@PEBeaudoin]

It's coming out just after "Blue Pears of the Jupiter" is mastered. LOL!

[@thayermann8383]

How about 69 you are most fortunate, I was listening to Kenny Rogers this morning

[@Loocianum]

2020 twtw

[@JanAndhisfiets]

When you realise that this is the guy who had big influence on Richie Hawtin

[@TheTrancemaster90]

the funny thing being that I can enjoy and undestand more easely Mort than any Richie's set

[@stephenpitul4025]

I am sure that Frank Zappa and you were on each others radar....Did you two ever meet and exchange ideas on music...I hear FZ in your talking.

[@liantrosretrospectiva4134]

yes and no

[@devilpig6]

So the idea is to make music by accident? Why not just learn how to play music first? This sounds like an interpretation of music by an entity that doesn't feel music internally... Which is why it has zero emotional impact apart from causing an unsatisfied anticipatory anxiety... No scales? Okay... But there is no tension/release ratio whatsoever...

[@sclogse1]

What happened with me listening to his Touch album on headphones is that I pretty much disappeared and it seemed like the sounds were originating inside my skull. The effect of this was the loss of anticipation and expectation. I was completely present. Whether that would occur with his earlier work..I never found out. Maybe it helped to be 22 when I played it. And guess where..in an Army barracks. Fort Ord. Yeah, I had a sweet 120 buck Panasonic stereo in my locker.

[@docsketchy]

Morton Subotnick certainly paid his dues composing "normal" music -- you know, the kind with people sitting in a room playing physical instruments. Check out his four-part suite called A Fluttering of Wings for chamber orchestra -- It is absolutely sumptuous.