Kraftwerk - Autobahn (2009 remaster) and my introduction to sceptical thinking.

[Ron Obvious]

I used to have a freeway commute which lasted exactly as long as this track (about 22mins). I was amazed that the last few dying notes would almost always play when I pulled into the parking lot.

Then I realised I would subconsciously slow down or speed up along the way as required to make that happen. I also learnt about Confirmation Bias (remembering the hits and forgetting the misses).

Maybe I overthink things.

[mr_lebowski]

1. Some seminal electronica right there ... great stuff ... (nt)

[LunaSea]

2. If you like early electronica you might like this

[mr_lebowski]

3. That was cool, thanks mate ...

[Ron Obvious]

4. That was very interesting, thanks! n/t

[jberryhill]

5. What I learned

...is that if you are going to be driving on a two-lane highway with no speed limits, then you STAY IN THE RIGHT LANE, move left only to pass when necessary but, before you do that... take a good, hard, long look in the rearview mirror.

And when you look in the rearview mirror, don't just register the location of any vehicles behind you. Look again and get a feel for how fast they might be approaching. Because when you are going around 60 mph, there is a world of difference between a car 100 yards back that is going 10 mph faster than you at 70 miles per hour, and one that is ripping along at closer to 100 mph. There is just nothing about driving on US interstates that prepares you for the kind of attention you need to apply to driving on the Autobahn, if you are going to even consider moving into the left lane for any reason whatsoever.

Oh, and, yeah.. bring along some change for toilets.

[Ron Obvious]

9. Good advice!

When driving on the autobahn and you see a car way behind you in your mirrors, that car could be on your bumper in just a heartbeat.

Stay right, except to pass, and then move right again.

You're right about the change for the toilets too.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. Morton Subotnick; "Silver Apples of the Moon"

Morton Subotnick


Morton Subotnick playing a Buchla synthesizer at his studio, NYU (2012)

Morton Subotnick (born April 14, 1933) is an American composer of electronic music, best known for his 1967 composition Silver Apples of the Moon, the first electronic work commissioned by a record company, Nonesuch. He was one of the founding members of California Institute of the Arts, where he taught for many years.

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. Most of his music calls for a computer part, or live electronic processing; his oeuvre utilizes many of the important technological breakthroughs in the history of the genre.

SUBOTNICK The Making of Silver Apples of the Moon
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Excerpts from an interview for the film SUBOTNICK, now fundraising on Indiegogo: http://igg.me/at/subotnickfilm

Morton Subotnick's landmark 1967 debut electronic LP, "Silver Apples Of The Moon," turns 50 this year (1967 - 2017).

Working with engineer Don Buchla in the early 1960s, Subotnick commissioned one of the world’s first electronic music synthesizers, which he first put to use on “Silver Apples of the Moon” - a breakthrough recording that became a landmark of the psychedelic era, and was recently inducted into the National Registry of Recorded Works at the US Library of Congress.

In May 2016, Morton Subotnick guided the Waveshaper Media crew, the team behind the forthcoming “Subotnick” documentary, to the location of his Bleecker Street studio in NYC, where “Silver Apples” was recorded.

http://subotnickfilm.com

SUBOTNICK: The First Buchla 100
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Excerpts from SUBOTNICK, a forthcoming documentary on avant-garde electronic music composer Morton Subotnick, now raising funds via Indiegogo: http://igg.me/at/subotnickfilm

In 1963, Morton Subotnick and Ramon Sender, the two founders of the San Francisco Tape Music Center, commissioned Don Buchla to create one of the first modular electronic music systems.

The first Buchla 100 series system was completed in 1965, eventually moving to Mills College in 1966, where it remains today.

In April 2017, Subotnick and Sender returned to Mills College to meet with Prof. Maggi Payne, co-director of the Center of Contemporary Music, revisiting the original Buchla 100.

[Ron Obvious]

10. Great stuff! Thanks! n/t

[octoberlib]

7. Haven't heard this in ages . Thanks for posting!

[LunaSea]

8. More synth history

[Ron Obvious]

11. Dang. I just found out Florian Schneider just died....