The Red Bull Music Academy Madrid 2011 ended over a week ago and we decided to wait a while before giving our Cape Town Studio followers the down-low so that some amazing content covering the second term of the Academy could go up. Here is our selection:
Daily Diary: Term 2, Day 10 - in Living Stereo®
James Pants offers a meditative reflection on 24 hours in the life of the Academy.
http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/magazine/daily_diary_2_10
Morton Subotnick Lecture Session
http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/magazine/daily_diary_conclusion
Morton Subotnick on RBMA Radio
http://redbullmusicacademyradio.com/shows/4777/
Morton Subotnick is one of the true pioneers of electronic and computer based music. Teaching at Mills College in the early sixties he co-founded the San Francisco Tape Music Center while also collaborating with Don Buchla on one of the first analogue synthesizers. Not long after Subotnick went and left to New York City, where he worked at the Lincoln Center and the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. During the time he wrote and recorded Silver Apples of the Moon, The Wild Bull and Touch. Of these Silver Apples Of The Moon proved especially groundbreaking and influential. Commissioned by Nonesuch Records, the piece was specifically written for the LP format, utilizing the Buchla synthesizer to create a vision of modern chamber music. And, before the decade was over, he went on to Los Angeles to help create the California Institute Of Arts. Throughout the seventies he worked on developing usage of control voltages and storing information on a steadily developing range of media, from tape to E-PROM. The stored scores were used for performances involving live players, helping blur the line of what a live performance actually is. In addition to his academic work and his ongoing work as a composer for a wide range of setups and ensembles like Kronos Quartet, Subotnick has been pivotal in making computers usable for music education. With several lifetimes worth of innovations under his belt, Subotnick shows no signs of slowing down. The radio show was a live performance captured at Madrid's Museo Reina Sofia.
Daily Diary: The Conclusion
The Academys co-captain Torsten Schmidt weighs in on five weeks of music and mayhem. Hopefully no ones parents get mad.
http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/magazine/daily_diary_conclusion
Osm!
The Red Bull Music Academy Says Thank You.
http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/magazine/madrid_2011_thank_you_list
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