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EPISODE · Aug 11, 2012 · 14 MIN

Morton Subotnick's Silver Apples of the Moon

from Radio 3's Fifty Modern Classics · host BBC Radio 3

Four Tet’s 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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