via Noiseconformist"Yesterday Morton Subotnick performed here in Vienna. Before that he gave us a lecture and talked about the origins of his work and of course about the San Francisco Tape Music Center.
When he spoke about those two Buchlas on stage he called them the 'the newest one' (200e) and 'the oldest one'.
'These modules right here are probably the first one (synthesizer) which was ever made.', meaning the modules saying 'San Francisco Tape Music Center Incorporated'. (Buchla's idea how to name it, something what S. obviously didn't like at all - '... this is not a business ...')The slides said 1964-1965 but already showed a Buchla 100 Music Box.
I let the quotes speak for themselves, reading and listening to other sources gives a somewhat contradictory image.
Mr. Subotnick kept speaking about a 'music easel', in a metaphorical sense, he wanted to have.This is not to be mixed up with the Buchla Music Easel we know. Which obviously came out much later.
The adaption of "Silver Apples Of The Moon" is wonderful, very vivid, powerful and gentle at the same moment. Lillevan's projections looked very organic and were a great part of the show. I'm looking forward to Subotnick's "Jacob's Room" on Saturday!"See this post for recent video of Morton Subotnick at Transmediate 2011.
That's the only excuse I need to mount all of my 100-series envelopes upside-down.
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