1. Morton Subotnick and the Composer’s Black Box

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: What Can a Black Box Do? 1
5. 1. Morton Subotnick and the Composer’s Black Box 24
6. 2. Opening Buchla’s Box: Manifesting the Musical Mind 49
7. 3. The Patchwork Girl: Pauline Oliveros and the Cybernetic Body 91
8. 4. Alvin Lucier and the Ambiguity of Sound and Signal 124
9. 5. Sun Ra and the Minimoog: Freedom, Discipline, and Opacity 157
10. Afterword: What Can a Composer Do? 190
11. Notes 203
12. Sources Cited 245
13. Index 263