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At 12:29 PM -0700 6/26/03, Terry Blankenship wrote: >Kim's mention of the SF Tape Center got me wondering >where all the people are today, that originally >started experimenting with tape loops. All the people >who were experimenting with tape loops around the >world pre-1973. > >How many of them are still making music, and what are >they into now? There was a sort of "inner circle" at the Tape Center and a group of others who regularly participated in their concerts and sometimes used the facilities. Mort Subotnick and Ramon Sender Barayon were the two founders. Mort just celebrated his 70th birthday and has never slacked off as a composer and teacher. His work evolved from electronic to electroacoustic to multimedia work and he has several recent CDs and DVDs. Ramon has devoted himself more to writing than to music since the 1970s but still does perform on occasion. He runs a peformance series at the Noe Valley Ministry in San Francisco. Pauline Oliveros became a mainstay of the Tape Center shortly after its founding and when ti moved to Mills College she became the first director of the Center for Contempoary Music at Mills. She then became a professor of music at UC San Diego and in 1980 left academia to focus on composing, performing, and giving workshops. She has kept a very full schedule and in recent years has held a variety of part-time teaching positions at Mills, Oberlin, and now at Rensselaer. Terry Riley was active at the Tape Center in the early days and has had an active career worldwide. He lives in the Sierra foothills and travels extensively (he performed recently here in Los Angeles). Tony Martin, a painter and light artist, who is perhaps best known for his "psychedelic" liquid projection effects, lives and teaches in New York City. -- ______________________________________________________________ Richard Zvonar, PhD (818) 788-2202 http://www.zvonar.com http://RZCybernetics.com