Thu February 5, 2015
Morton Subotnick Lecture: The Tape Recorder, the Transistor and the Credit Card: The Technological Big Bang A Personal History
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at Mills College - Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall
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The Mills College Music Department and the Center for Contemporary Music present:
A Lecture by Composer MORTON SUBOTNICK:
The Tape Recorder, the Transistor and the Credit Card: The Technological Big Bang A Personal History
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.
Free and open to the public.
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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
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A Lecture by Composer MORTON SUBOTNICK:
The Tape Recorder, the Transistor and the Credit Card: The Technological Big Bang A Personal History
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.
Free and open to the public.
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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.
-----------
Mills College
5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland, CA 94613
The Mills College Music Department and the Center for Contemporary Music present:
A Lecture by Composer MORTON SUBOTNICK:
The Tape Recorder, the Transistor and the Credit Card: The Technological Big Bang A Personal History
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.
Free and open to the public.
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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.
-----------
Mills College
5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland, CA 94613
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A Lecture by Composer MORTON SUBOTNICK:
The Tape Recorder, the Transistor and the Credit Card: The Technological Big Bang A Personal History
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.
Free and open to the public.
-----------
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.
-----------
Mills College
5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland, CA 94613
show less
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Mills College - Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall
5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA 94613
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