AMERICAN MUSIC SERIES 111 a-b
Morton Subotnick
with Vivian Perlis
New Haven, CT
March 23, 1983
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Side a: pp. 1-20
current works--theatre piece--anecdote about premiere of piece at Aspen and reaction of Milhaud--premiere of String Quartet at Library of Congress--audience reaction to his work--feeling of support while work is in progress and of nervousness when work is complete--tactile sense about music--audience response--difficulties in writing computer piece--commissions--ghost electronics--organic--working out of piece analagous to life processes--new opera.
Side b: pp. 20-44
the machine, evolution and relativity as major metaphors of time periods and their influence on the music of that time--use of butterfly metaphor--aptitude for biological model as a youngster--butterfly metaphor--Parallel Lines--influence of Ives--difficulty in categorizing his music--recognition and reaction of establishment--19th century aesthetic--Steve Reich's strong identification with minimalism--ethnic qualities in his music--direction of personal music--"staying the course"--people involved in the San Franciso Tape Music Center--magnifying the gesture.
Morton Subotnick
with Jack Vees
New York, NY
July 11, 1998
TABLE OF CONTENTS
DAT 1
Side g pp. 1-17
Ghost pieces--multimedia in Sound Blocks--technology in his work--Buchla Synthesizer--performance vs. recording--different acoustical enviroments--more on Ghost box--Trembling for violin and piano--Ascent into Air--Double Life of Amphibians--commission from IRCAM--Olympics--Todd Winkler--Ed Emshwiler and Hungers--Interactor®--Jacob's Room--control of parameters--gesture--text, image and memory--computer materials--Mark Coniglio.
Side h pp. 18-34
Leaving Cal Arts--Interactor® and Jacob's Rooom--Silver Apples of the Moon, The Wild Bull--Fromm commission: The Key to Songs--And the Butterflies Begin to Sing--Ursula Oppens--All My Hummingbirds Have Alibis--Intimate Immensity--muic, movement and dance--Rite of Spring--A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur--chamber version of Jacob's Room and other ballets with National Ballet of Canada--opera vs. musical theater--Sound Blocks--Marshall McLuhan--book: Parametric Counterpoint--Jacob's Room--Intimate Immensity: a "media poem"--Sliver Apples of the Moon--Laurie Anderson--Fine Arts vs. commercialism.
DAT 2
Side i pp. 34-51
Intimate Immensity--Tod Machover--Stan Brackridge[sp?]--terminology in the arts--Chou Wen Chung; his son Lu Yen--Fine Art disappearing--Silver Apples of the Moon--closure of major part of his work--our social evolution--Silver Apples--CD-ROM technology--"chamber music for the living room" notion--interaction of technology and the musician--Marsha Loren's[sp?] book The Poetics of Space--CD-ROM and gesture--Silver Apples--hypertext, hyperfiction--All My Hummingbirds Have Alibis--Intimate Immensity--vision and responsibility to share it-- workshop at NYU School of the Arts.
Side j pp. 51-69
Studio model for composing--Parametric Counterpoint--production on CD-ROM--his vision of technology--the future and purpose of music--Steve Reich--Reich's Desert Music, Different Trains, The Cave, and Clapping Music--Andy Warhol--Leonard Bernstein--CD-ROMs in progress--string quartet in progress--future orchestra piece.
Side k pp. 69-71
Books to write--Rzewski--Beckett.