Re: Where are they now

[Richard Zvonar <zvonar@zvonar.com>]

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.


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