Volume 1: Electronic Works / Morton Subotnick

by Joan La Barbara

Volume 1: Electronic Works / Morton Subotnick cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 2001-01-01
  • Label: Mode Records
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:12:44
  • Community rating: 3.42/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The first volume of Mode Records' survey of Morton Subotnick's electronic works centres on his Buchla synthesizer compositions of the late 1960s and 1970s, with Joan La Barbara among the featured performers. Pieces such as 'Silver Apples of the Moon' material document the founding repertoire of American electronic music.

Genres

Descriptors: analog, vocal, experimental, atmospheric, repetitive

Tracklist

  1. Touch, Pt. 1 (14:56)
  2. Touch, Pt. 2 (15:33)
  3. A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur: I. Opening (11:15)
  4. A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur: II. Dance (15:02)
  5. Gestures "It Begins with Colors" (15:58)

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