Moogfest, the annual gathering in North Carolina inspired by the vision of Robert Moog and his synthesizers, happened this past weekend and NPR was there to record a number of the acts, including Andy Stott ... read more »
photos by Diana Wong Primus / Moog Factory / people in hot dog costumes Moogfest 2012 kicked off unofficially with Justice on Thursday (10/25) , and then it officially began on Friday (10/26) with sets by El-P, Buke & Gase, Blondes, Explosions in the Sky, Primus, Miike Snow, Morton Subotnick and more. El-P played a studio session inside [...]
Moogfest has added more acts to its 2012 lineup, including Nas, Tim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin, Buke & Gase, Ahleuchatistas, and Morton Subotnick, who will perform his 1967 composition Silver Apples of the Moon accompanied by video created by Berlin-based media artist Lillevan. As previously reported , the lineup already includes Orbital, Primus 3D, Miike Snow, Divine Fits, GZA performing Liquid Swords , The Mangetic Fields, Explosions in the Sky, Squarepusher, Four Tet, Richie Hawtin, and Black Moth Super Rainbow. The festival runs October 26th - 27th in Asheville, NC. Single-day, [...]
Morton Subotnick Morton Subotnick (born 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... Early electronic music was made using wave generators and tape-manipulated sounds. Subotnick was among the first composers to work with electronic instrument designer Don Buchla. Buchla's modular voltage-controlled synthesizer, which he called the Electric Music Box and which was constructed partly based on suggestions by Subotnick and Sender, was both [...]
With festivals every single weekend, it's hard to imagine that any one could be that different from the rest. But if nothing else, Chicago's two-year old Neon Marshmallow Festival proves that assumption so very wrong. The noise/drone/electronic/general ly avant-garde acts that pummeled the crowd for three nights won't be filling out even the earliest of slots at Coachella or Lollapalooza, and the fans who filed into work Monday morning with damaged ear drums and huge grins on their faces wouldn't want it any other way. Neon Marshmallow is, in a word, weird. In two words, delightfully weird. [...]
The final line-up for this year's three-day Neon Marshmallow Music Festival has been announced. Top-billed artists this year, include: White Rainbow, Rene Hell, and, recently added, Lucky Dragons on Friday, June 10; Pelt, Bill Orcutt, and Oneothrix Point Never on Saturday, June 11; and Morton Subotnick, The Rita, and Pulse Emitter on Sunday, June 12. A full schedule can be found below. The experimental music fest, which is being hosted at the Empty Bottle , features a wide variety of electronic and electro-acoustic music, ranging from noise and free jazz to EAI and music concrete. [...]
Chicago-based experimental music festival Neon Marshmallow will return for a second installment Friday, June 10 through Sunday, June 12, 2011. Already the festival has released nearly 20 ambient noise, drone and electronica acts from all over the country and Canada including Pitchfork darlings and Brooklyn trance group OneOhTrix Point Never . Also appearing are legendary electronic composer Morton Subotnick, Portland psychedelic soloist White Rainbow, fellow Portland noise maker Pulse Emitter and Chicago synth enthusiast Beau Wanzer. There are some noticeable differences between Neon Marshmallow’s inaugural year and the 2011 edition, [...]
Check out this incredible video of legendary Morton Subotnick discussing his early career and the evolution of his ground-breaking work with analog synthesizers. Back in the sixties, while Robert Moog was developing his pioneering keyboard on the East Coast, Subotnick, Ramon Sender and Don Buchla were toiling away in ...
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Mi Ami - "Hard Up" MP3/download Hey, remember Black Eyes? Yeah, they were awesome, though I suspect most folks in the indie community preTENDed to like them because they were on Dischord ... the Black Eyes sound was just too abrasive for your average The Rapture fan; I was one of maybe two DJs that [...]
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Filed under: Around the World Spinner.com : The Orange County, Calif., Sheriff's Department and pioneering electronic musician-composer Morton Subotnick don't usually converge. Not to mention Afrobeat king Fela Kuti. But all figured in a Sunday afternoon performance by the band Nomo at Amoeba... Read more
Morton Subotnik: Silver Apples of the Moon, part 1 [ purchase ] This piece defines the beginning of an evolution that I'm coming out the other end of now. I can see where it has led; I can see sort of an ending point. I can also see what made it fairly popular at the time it came out in relation to the pop world and the world in general. It sort of defined an approach to electronics that found its [...]
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Morton Subotnick, Touch (Columbia 1969) Morton Subotnick is best known for Silver Apples of the Moon , which used the same type of early synthesizer (the Buchla Electronic Music System ). Touch was recorded in Quad (!), although of course I ripped it in stereo ... this is only a small part of the album-length piece, but the section about two minutes into this clip makes my eyes start to bug and sparks shoot out of my ears. Lots of his recordings are available on CD or LP [...]
Here's a Sunday treat to ponder over while the dinner digests... may it warm the embers of your heart. Morton Subotnick - The Wild Bull (Side A) (from The Wild Bull ) ... and you can buy into the wonderful world of mr subotnick here .
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