Junto a Pauline Oliveros y Ramón Sender funda en 1961el San Francisco Tape Music Center, primer estudio de la Costa Oeste dedicado a la música experimental. Cinco años más tarde, crea el primer disco electrónico jamás grabado, “Silver Apples of the Moon”.
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Has escuchado

The Other Piano. Lullaby: For Piano & Live Electronics (2007). Soojin Anjou, piano; Morton Subotnick, electrónica. Mode (2019)

Silver Apples of the Moon. Part A (1967). WERGO (1994)

The Wild Beasts. After the Butterfly (1978). Conjunto instrumental dirigido por Subotnick. WERGO (2015)

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Selección bibliográfica

BERNSTEIN, David, The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-garde. University of California Press, 2008

CLEMAN, Tom y Morton Subotnick, “Parallel Lines for Solo Piccolo with "Ghost Electronics" and Nine Players”. Notes, n.º 40 (1983), p. 404

DAVISON, Stephen, “All My Hummingbirds Have Alibis, Multimedia CD-ROM for Macintosh by Morton Subotnick” [Reseña]. Notes, n.º 53 (1996), p. 530-533*

GLUCK, Robert, “Electric Circus, Electric Ear and the Intermedia Center in Late-1960s New York”. Leonardo Music Journal, vol. 45, n.º 1 (2012), pp. 51-56*

—, “Nurturing Young Composers: Morton Subotnick’s Late-1960s Studio in New York City”. Computer Music Journal, vol. 36, n.º 1 (2012), pp. 65-80*

HANSON, Jeffrey, Morton Subotnick's Ghost Scores: Interaction and Performance with Music Technology.  TFM, San Jose State University, 2010

MACHOVER, Tod, “Interview with Morton Subotnick”. Contemporary Music Review, vol. 13, n.º 2 (1996), pp. 3-11*

ROADS, Curtis, “Interview with Morton Subotnick”. Computer Music Journal, vol. 12, n.º 1 (1988), pp. 9-18*

ROADS, Curtis y Morton Subotnick, “A Sky of Cloudless Sulfur/After the Butterfly”. Computer Music Journal, n.º 5 (1981), p. 81

SUBOTNICK, Morton, “Extending the Stuff Music is Made of”. Music Educators Journal, n.º 55 (1968), pp. 109-110

—, “The Use of the Buchla Synthesizer in Musical Composition”. Journal of The Audio Engineering Society (1970), s/n

—, “The use of computer technology in an interactive or “Real time” performance environment”. Contemporary Music Review, n.º 18 (1999), pp. 113-117

WHIPPLE, Harold W., “Beasts and Butterflies: Morton Subotnick's Ghost Scores”. The Musical Quarterly, vol. 69, n.º 3 (1983), pp. 425-441*

YELTON, Geary, “A Conversation with Morton Subotnick: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Silver Apples of the Moon”. Electronic Musician, vol. 33, n.º 11 (2017), pp. 26-30

*Documento disponible para su consulta en la Sala de Nuevas Músicas de la Biblioteca y Centro de Apoyo a la Investigación de la Fundación Juan March