American Mavericks: Program 11:From Moog to Mark II to MIDI to Max



	Program 11: From Moog to Mark II to MIDI to Max (59:00s)

	When commercial recording tape became available in 1947, America got in, for the first time, on the ground floor of a musical technology. Not in this field would American composers have to follow Europe - the two continents, plus Japan developed the technologies and the artistic responses to it in tandem. Electronics were the perfect musical medium for the eccentric composer who wanted to hide away in his studio, freed from the necessity of ingratiating oneself with chamber music groups and orchestra conductors. And every new technology that came along - the splicing block, the tape loop, the oscillator, MIDI, the sampler, and ultimately the home computer - seemed to bring an entire new musical movement in its wake. For decades, electronic music was associated with weird, spacey effects and inhuman sounds, but digital technology has completely changed the game.

"From Moog to Mark II to MIDI to Max"
An essay by music critic and author Kyle Gann.

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Composers Mentioned in the Show

Morton Subotnick
Wendy Carlos
Vladimir Ussachevsky
Otto Luening.
Milton Babbitt
Max V. Mathews
Laurie Spiegel
Carl Stone
Charles Amirkhanian
Henry Gwiazda
Paul Lansky
Richard Teitelbaum
Kim Cascone

In addition to host Suzanne Vega and San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas, this show includes the voices of these composers, performers, and scholars:

Wendy Carlos: "Interview" (73:08s)
Morton Subotnick "Interview" (29:00s)
Morton Subotnick "Composers Voice " (29:00s)
Vladimir Ussachevsky

Additional related interviews
Mark Applebaum: "Interview" (77:10s)
Milton Babbitt: "Interview" (50:21s)
Nick Didkovsky "Interview" (54:34s)
Chris Mann: "Interview" (59:48s)
Pauline Oliveros: "Interview" (60:15s)

Archival interviews by Warren Burt
Charles Amirkhanian: "Interview" (05/05/80) (39:18s)
Joel Chadebe: " Interview" (09/01/80) (45:12s)
Alvin Curran: "Interview" (15:50s)
Charles Dodge: "Interview" (05/01/80) (44:03s)
Daniel Goode: "Interview" (8:04s)
Salvatore Martirano: "Interview" (06/15/79) (46:08s)

IN TALK
And here’s a challenge: Are you a closet composer? Are you making music with your computer at home? Well, we’d love to hear from you about what you’re doing … and just maybe you’d be so bold as to post a short piece of music for others to listen to.

Richard Teitelbaum, Max V. Mathews, Wendy Carlos, Morton Subotnick

Show Audio
Listen to the program (59:00s)

Carl Stone
"Shing Kee" (15:44s, used with permission.)

Playlist from the show

MORTON SUBOTNICK: "Silver Apples of the Moon" Part 1 (OHM: the early Gurus of electronic music/Ellipsis Arts/CD3670)

MORTON SUBOTNICK: "Four Butterflies" (Out of print. CD soon to be released on Mode records )

WENDY CARLOS: "Switched on Bach" arr J.S. Bach Two-Part Invention in D-Minor(East Side Digital ESD 81422)

JEAN PHILIPPE RAMEAU: "Les Triolets" realized by Bob James (CBS MK 39540)

OTTO LUENING: "Low Speed" (OHM: the early Gurus of electronic music/Ellipsis Arts/CD3670)

PYTOR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY: "Valse Sentimetale" played by Clara Rockmore (OHM: the early Gurus of electronic music/Ellipsis Arts/CD3670)

THE BEACH BOYS: "Good Vibrations" (The Best of the Beach Boys EMI-Capitol 72438-19707-2-0)

WENDY CARLOS: "Switched on Bach" arr J.S. Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major Mvt III (East Side Digital ESD 81422)

MILTON BABBITT: "Ensembles" (OHM: the early Gurus of electronic music/Ellipsis Arts/CD3670)

MAX MATHEWS: "Numerology" (Wergo 282 033-2)

MAX MATHEWS: "Bicycle Built for Two" Wergo 282 033-2)

WENDY CARLOS: "Switched on Bach" arr of J.S. Bach Sinfonia to Cantata #29 (East Side Digital ESD 81422)

LAURIE SPIEGEL: "Riding the Storm" (Unseen Worlds CD)

CARL STONE: "Shing Kee" (New Albion NA049)

CHARLES AMIRKHANIAN: "Walking Tune" (Starkland ST-206)

HENRY GWIAZDA" MANEATINGCHIPSLISTENINGTOAVIOLIN" (Innova 505)

PAUL LANSKY: "Idle Chatter Junior" (Bridge 9103)

RICHARD TEITELBAUM: "Golem" (Radical Jewish Culture #7105)

KIM CASCONE: from CD "Dust Theories" (Cycling '74 , c74-004)

MORTON SUBOTNICK: "The Key to Songs" (New Albion NA-012)



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