Morton Subotnick's Silver Apples of the Moon

Published: Aug. 11, 2012, 11:05 p.m.

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Four Tet\\u2019s Kieran Hebden explains why Silver Apples of the Moon by the American composer Morton Subotnick stands out for him as a classic of early electronic music. Author and journalist Rob Young provides some background to the work, which was created on a Buchla synthesizer at the San Francisco Tape Music Center, and conceived specifically for two sides of an LP.

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