Silver Apples Of The Moon (VINYL RIP)

some pretty interesting music from Morton Subotnick

[daveherres]

Great memory. We skipped school, went to the library and got this album and played it all day, circa 1978.

[briannaMBrown]

Imagine if someone made an animated film like Fantasia but with music like this instead of classical music?...

[pwcc]

Our music teacher introduced us to this in 5th grade(I'm 45). I've not forgotten the name and found it hear today: THANK YOU!!

[dahlia]

It makes me feel like I'm on another planet listening to the various signals that blare across the macrocosm. Or maybe a world inhabited only by robotic insects- and I'm listening to their songs in the night.

[TheSynthZone]

RIP synth designer and friend of Subotnik, Don Buchla. You did good!

[mattnorman]

Just found this wonderful album in a dusty record store in West Texas…..Anything Nonesuch is worth buying!!

[sanicyouth]

Great piece. I have also heard The Wild Bull and Touch. The 1950's and 1960's is a goldmine for abstract electronic music.

[jpiekkala]

Amazing how after all these years this still sounds fresh and avant-garde.

[Cristofre]

I have the record album. I was 16 years old in the late 80's listening to this when it was already over 20 years old. This early experimental analog synthesizer music is some of the first to try using machines to make music/make soundscapes. This was played on a wall of knobs and switches, wires running all over the place, not on a box with piano keys.

[esotericskife]

Netflix brought me like im not the only one

wow, how good do i have it, to have all of today's technology at my disposal, such as fl studio and various VSTs. The pioneers of electronic music went through shit to make sure we as future electronic music producers had it good. Thank you.

[lukaswycaza]

Thank you YouTube for recommending this masterpiece to me 🦠🫂👾

[noisepsalm]

Silver Apples of the Moon was Subotnick's first full-length LP of electronic music, the first electronic work commissioned by a record company. Composed in 1967 specifically for release on Nonesuch Records.

Track listing
"Part A" – 16:33
"Part B" – 14:52

Personnel
Morton Subotnick - Liner Notes, Primary Artist
Bradford Ellis - Digital Restoration, Mastering, Remixing
Michael Hoenig - Mastering, Remixing
H.J. Kropp - Cover Design
Tony Martin - Illustrations

[ChristopherBrooks_kenor]

Whats interesting about this is that it is so clearly spatial. Youi could point your finger at every sound. Incidentally, I visited Subotnick's studio on 8th Street when I was a young teenager. It was cool.

[nedryerson]

Mr. Subotnick visited my university in 1975 for an electronic music symposium. I was into electronic music at the time and had this album. I jumped at the chance to participate n a dance composition called "Electronic Wedding" as best man. I was in love with the dancer who played the maid of honor, so it was a lot of fun.

[ElectricAutoharp]

saw the documentary "I Dream of Wires" on Netflix, and just had to search out this album.

[CarlosDarwin-qtee]

Star Trek Jonathan Archer's quoted Yeats' Song Of The Wandering Aengus, and the last two phrases were "The silver apples of the Moon, and the golden apples of the sun". I had to google those phrases and that brought me here.
I have no regrets.

[morganfisherart]

The first 35 seconds sounds very like a kind of Japanese flute that is often played in street festivals here in Tokyo. I wonder if Morton ever heard such a flute? It also sounds very much like the marvellous "noise" made by wind leaking through the gap in a door in my local subway train, which I have been meaning to record/sample for ages.
Thank you Evan for the upload, Morton for the music, and Don Buchla (RIP) for the instruments.

[daveking-sandbox]

I played this at home for months when I was 15 years old, a real trip!

[davidwarner]

This is an excellent LP. I must have bought it around 1970 - and still have it. There was a short interview with Morton Subotnick on BBC Radio 3 Music Matters (16 January 2016)

[atwaterpub]

It is too bad there is not an entire school of recorded music like this, in the same way there is a huge body of work by talented 1970's blues rock guitarists. Imagine fifty albums by 20 different artist all similar to this and yet each uniquely different and special; and all from that same original space and time.