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Tracking The Odds: Morton Subotnick

May 22, 2023: 3pm - 4pm
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Morton Subotnick

Morton Subotnick. Courtesy Roulette Intermedium.

Produced by Roulette Intermedium.

Two performance excerpts (2009 & 2013) at Roulette by Morton Subotnick, a pioneer in electronic music and an innovator in works involving instruments with other media, including interactive computer music systems. Subotnick co-founded the legendary San Francisco Tape Center and his seminal work, Silver Apples of the Moon (1966-67), has been entered into the National Register of Recorded Works at the Library of Congress. About these performances Subotnick writes, “For each season of performances I create a new hybrid Ableton-Buchla 'instrument' loaded with prepared samples from all my previous works and performances and new patches that allow me to modify the samples while performing brand new sound gestures".

"Tracking The Odds: The Roulette Concert Archive" is a monthly hour-long radio special produced by Roulette Intermedium (roulette.org) and broadcast in partnership with Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM and Standing Wave Radio. The broadcasts feature selected highlights from Roulette’s New York experimental music space dating from the early 1980s to the present. Thousands of rare, formative, and often unheard recordings by innovators and adventurous musicians populate the archive. Tracking The Odds airs the fourth Monday of the month from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. and is archived at wavefarm.org.

Founded in 1978, Roulette operates a 400-seat concert hall on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn with a focus on experimental and unorthodox music and performance across all genres and media. It's archive of thousands of audio and video recordings is currently being restored.

Playlist:
  • Nakazu / Akhira Sano
  • The Robots / Kraftwerk
  • A Sky Of Cloudless Sulphur - Dance / Morton Subotnick
  • Silver Apples of the Moon - Pt. A / Morton Subotnick