Morton Subotnick is an American composer of electronic music, best
known for his Silver Apples of the Moon, the first electronic work commissioned by a
record company, Nonesuch. He was one of the founding members of California Institute
of the Arts, where he taught for many years. Subotnick has worked extensively with
interactive electronics and multi-media, co-founding the San Francisco Tape Music
Center with Ramon Sender, and often collaborating with his wife Joan La Barbara.
Morton Subotnick is one of the pioneers in the development of electronic music and
multi-media performance and an innovator in works involving instruments and other
media, including interactive computer music systems. Most of his music calls for a
computer part, or live electronic processing; his oeuvre utilizes many of the
important technological breakthroughs in the history of the genre.