17 Facts About Morton Subotnick

Morton Subotnick was one of the founding members of California Institute of the Arts, where he taught for many years.

Morton Subotnick has worked extensively with interactive electronics and multi-media, co-founding the San Francisco Tape Music Center with Pauline Oliveros and Ramon Sender, 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.

Morton Subotnick was born in Los Angeles, California, and graduated from the University of Denver.

In 1966 Morton Subotnick was instrumental in getting a Rockefeller Grant to join the Tape Center with the Mills Chamber Players .

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Morton Subotnick did not stay with the move, but went to New York with the Actor's Workshop to become the first music director of the Lincoln Center Rep Company in the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center.

Morton Subotnick then helped to develop the Electric Circus and the Electric Ear, and became their artistic director.

Morton Subotnick was among the first composers to work with electronic instrument designer Don Buchla.

In 1969 Morton Subotnick was invited to be part of a team of artists to move to Los Angeles to plan a new school.

Morton Subotnick remained Associate Dean of the music school for 4 years and then, resigning from that position, became the head of the composition program where, a few years later, he created a new media program that introduced interactive technology and multimedia into the curriculum.

Morton Subotnick has written for acoustic instruments, and he has studied with Darius Milhaud and Leon Kirchner at Mills College in Oakland, California.

Morton Subotnick was commissioned to complete a larger version of the opera, Jacobs Room.

Morton Subotnick is developing tools for young children to create music.

Morton Subotnick has authored a series of six CDROMs for children, mounted a children's website and he is developing a related school program.

Morton Subotnick's Pitch Painter for iPad and iPhone is a musical finger painting app which presents a new intuitive way for kids to create music.

Morton Subotnick is working with the Library of Congress as they are preparing an archival presentation of his electronic works.

Morton Subotnick is married to Joan La Barbara, a singer and composer.