Word: subotnick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...orchestra to a couple of keyboards, electrical outlets and multitrack stereo tape is obviously something to be reckoned with, even if its characteristically metallic tones and dispassionate air will never replace the luster or emotion of a Berlin Philharmonic. But experimenters such as Anderson, Glass, Pierre Boulez and Morton Subotnick are seeking to conjure new sounds in such works as Subotnick's Silver Apples of the Moon and Boulez's Répons, not re-create old ones. The synthesizer offers them bright, fresh colors to daub onto Western music's 1,000-year-old pallette...