At Home with Morton Subotnick and Joan La Barbara: Q2 Spaces

For the second installment of Q2 Spaces, we visited Morton Subotnick and Joan La Barbara’s Greenwich Village apartment, where they’ve lived and worked for the past 17 years. The walls are lined with the artwork of friends and collaborators and the kitchen cupboard doubles as La Barbara’s vocal booth. A shelf in Subotnick’s studio houses a piece of the very first Buchla analog synthesizer — the instrument used to create his hugely influential work “Silver Apples of the Moon.” The bustling sounds of the city streets sift through their kitchen window. More: http://bit.ly/117RxIz

Video: Kim Nowacki & Hannis Brown | Q2 Music.

Music: Morton Subotnick
And the Butterflies Begin to Sing (New World)
The Key to Songs (New Albion)
Silver Apples of the Moon (Wergo)
mortonsubotnick.com

Music: Joan La Barbara
ROTHKO (New World Records)
Shaman Song (New World Records)
joanlabarbara.com

Q2 Spaces is produced by Q2 Music, New York Public Radio’s online music station devoted to contemporary classical music and dynamic live webcasts from leading new-music venues.
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