Morton Subotnick - Touch

Created by Morton Subotnick on the Buchla Electronic Music System
Side One: Touch (Beginning); Side Two: Touch (Conclusion)

Subotnick has been one of the most important electronic music composers. When his pieces like Silver Apples of the Moon and The Wild Bull were released on LP in the late '60s, they were striking demonstrations that true new music could be exciting, vibrant, and readily accessible. Subotnick's deft, masterful touch was much more appealing than other electronic music emerging from academic settings. This is an excellent piece. There are rapid pulses, layered gestures, dense passages of percolating rhythms. The music is distinctive, otherworldly, sophisticated, and holds up well. The quality of these old analog tapes is quite good. (LP Columbia, 1969)

Morton Subotnick, Silver Apples of the Moon/The Wild Bull (1967/1968)

posted by eduardo chagas @ 29.12.07