UNTIL SPRING + SILVER APPLES OF THE MOON
2003-2008

“Until Spring (Revisited)” is an audio-visual surround sound performance with the composer Morton Subotnick. A DVD release on Mode Records documents a presentation at the Recombinant Media Labs in San Francisco and is available here.
   
From the April 6th, 2007 press release: "Until Spring" was first conceived in 1975 using only analog techniques. "It was about 10 years from SilverApples to Until Spring," Subotnick explains, "and I'd evolved a whole concept and a technique, but I had gone as far as I could go with it. I could do everything I wanted to do, but I couldn't do it in real time. (New York Press, Molly Sheridan)" As computers and software developed in the coming decades Subotnick created a software-based instrument that he felt could allow him to complete his original vision. "Until Spring Revisited" is performed by Morton Subotnick and Miguel Frasconi on two laptops, with live improvisational visual accompaniment by Sue Costabile. Presented in surround sound, with additional solo works by both Subotnick and Frasconi.

Silver Apples of the Moon is a legendary record of Morton Subotnick’s which he presented live at San Francisco MOMA in 2012. From the SFMOMA website: “Subotnick is hailed as one of the pioneers in the development of electronic music and multimedia performance mixing computer-based compositions with live electronic processing. In the early 1960s, Subotnick taught at Mills College and cofounded the San Francisco Tape Music Center. For this performance he reworks one of his most famous recordings, Silver Apples of the Moon, originally released in 1967, a landmark analog synthesizer composition created on the Buchla modular synthesizer by design legend Don Buchla of Berkeley. Bay Area video artist SUE-C accompanies Subotnik onstage to present her unique handmade imagery, creating a real-time live cinema experience that fuses photographs, drawings, models, and interactive lighting effects.”

PRESENTATIONS:
Library of Congress, Washington DC
Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London
REDCAT, Los Angeles
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Le Poisson Rouge, NYC
Recombinant Media Labs “Cine Chamber”, SF
University of Illinois
Arizona State
NewSound Festival, ETHOS, Fredonia University