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Morton Subotnick in Concert at Le Poisson Rouge with Gavin Russom Opening

Nov. 02, 2011

Morton Subotnick in Concert at Le Poisson Rouge with Gavin Russom Opening

On November 9 Morton Subotnick performs at New York City’s Le Poisson Rouge on a program opened by Gavin Russom, presented as part of the 2011-12 Wordless Music Series. Morton Subotnick is a living legend in the development of electronic music. A leading innovator in works involving instruments and other media, his oeuvre utilizes many of the important technological breakthroughs in the history of the genre. His groundbreaking work Silver Apples of the Moon, commissioned by Nonesuch Records in 1967, was the first original large-scale composition to be composed specifically for the disc medium; a conscious acknowledgment that the home stereo system constituted a present-day form of chamber music.

Gavin Russom has created music under the names Black Meteoric Star and The Crystal Ark, and his collaborations with Delia Gonzalez and LCD Soundsystem are available on DFA Records. Russom is heavily influenced by early electronic composition, krautrock, and synth music, and straddles the worlds of dance and composition. He and Subotnick have a shared interest in synthesizers: Subotnick was instrumental in the development of the Buchla Synthesizer, and Russom builds custom synthesizers for his work. The evening includes a segment of Four Butterflies alongside the original film made for the piece, and Until Spring and A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur: Revisited, a new incantation two of Subotnick’s early, seminal electronic works composed for the Buchla. Subotnick is joined by Miguel Frasconi (computer and glass harp) and live-video by Sue Costabile.

Watch Subotnick in performance here.

Visit www.schott-music.com and www.mortonsubotnick.comfrom more on the composer.

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