I remember hearing this for the first time in the middle of the night, broadcast by Henry Varlack on WFLN in Philadelphia. As you can imagine, I never forgot it. It’s the first piece of electronic music specifically commissioned by a record label (Nonesuch Records). This is from back in the day when Nonesuch was Nonesuch, and synthesizers were synthesizers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G1hRNLlYpg

Happy birthday, Morton Subotnick, pioneering composer of the cult classic “Silver Apples of the Moon.”

Morton Subotnick: The Mad Scientist in the Laboratory of the Ecstatic Moment: