{"id":389,"date":"2011-04-07T12:26:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T16:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/2011\/04\/subotnick_lillevan_unsound_mak\/"},"modified":"2019-09-13T12:05:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T16:05:20","slug":"subotnick_lillevan_unsound_mak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2011\/04\/subotnick_lillevan_unsound_mak.html","title":{"rendered":"Subotnick, Lillevan, Unsound make Lincoln Center an electric circus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morton\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mortonsubotnick.com\/\">Subotnick<\/a> re-mixes original materials of his prophetic and unprecedented late &#8217;60s \u00c2\u00a0electronic music classic &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Morton-Subotnick-Silver-Apples-Moon\/dp\/B000025QZI\/?tag=howardmacom-20\">Silver Apples of the Moon<\/a>&#8221; with kinetic imagery by video artist\u00c2\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lillevan.com\/biography\/\">Lillevan<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0tonight (April 7)\u00c2\u00a0at the Rubenstein atrium of Lincoln Center &#8211;\u00c2\u00a0as detailed in my\u00c2\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/cityarts.info\/2011\/03\/09\/the-sound-of-unsound\/#more-3681\">column<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0in City Arts &#8211; New York. It&#8217;s free as part of the 11-day\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.backspinpromo.com\/USFNYClisting.pdf\">Unsound Festival<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0an extraordinary schedule of new and unusual multi-media works presented by the\u00c2\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Fundcja Tone of Krakow with the\u00c2\u00a0Polish Cultural Institute in New York\u00c2\u00a0and the\u00c2\u00a0Goethe-Institute New York. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenwichhouse.org\/_blog\/Greenwich_House_Music_School_News\/post\/North_River_Music_Season_25_Finale_Morton_Subotnick\/\">Subotnick performs again <\/a>tomorrow (April 8) at Greenwich House Music School (also NYC), 6 pm.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n&#8220;Silver Apples&#8221;<i>\u00c2\u00a0<\/i>was originally the soundtrack for the celebrity-dotted opening of NYC&#8217;s media-overload nightclub the Electric Circus (a view inside\u00c2\u00a0below). Could such an encounter of pop-culture glamour and the avant-garde come again?<\/p>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/inside%20electric%20circus.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/assets_c\/2011\/04\/inside electric circus-thumb-460x349-19646.jpeg\" alt=\"inside electric circus.jpeg\" width=\"460\" height=\"349\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Electric Circus &#8211; Bedford+Bowery<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/2IIOdxgQurM\">video <\/a>of Subotnick, Lillevan and pianist SooJin Anjou. Experience it better live.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2IIOdxgQurM\" width=\"460\" height=\"289\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardmandel.com\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">howardmandel.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/JazzBeyondJazz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe by Email or RSS<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/archives.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> All JBJ posts <\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/w.sharethis.com\/widget\/?tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail&amp;charset=utf-8&amp;style=default&amp;publisher=6ed88875-2235-4b29-aaa3-60183b0bcbcc\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morton\u00c2\u00a0Subotnick re-mixes original materials of his prophetic and unprecedented late &#8217;60s \u00c2\u00a0electronic music classic &#8220;Silver Apples of the Moon&#8221; with kinetic imagery by video artist\u00c2\u00a0Lillevan\u00c2\u00a0tonight (April 7)\u00c2\u00a0at the Rubenstein atrium of Lincoln Center &#8211;\u00c2\u00a0as detailed in my\u00c2\u00a0column\u00c2\u00a0in City Arts &#8211; New York. It&#8217;s free as part of the 11-day\u00c2\u00a0Unsound Festival,\u00c2\u00a0an extraordinary schedule of new and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[410,1229,1227,1181,1228,1182,1230,1231],"class_list":{"0":"post-389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"tag-city-arts-new-york","8":"tag-lillevan","9":"tag-lincoln-center","10":"tag-morton-subotnick","11":"tag-rubenstein-atrium","12":"tag-silver-apples-of-the-moon","13":"tag-soojin-anjou","14":"tag-unsound-festival","15":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1i3CL-6h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1318,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2013\/04\/happy-80-morton-subotnick.html","url_meta":{"origin":389,"position":0},"title":"Happy 80, Morton Subotnick!","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"April 14, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Today -- April 14 -- \u00c2\u00a0is the 80th birthday of one of America's greatest musical game-changers, Morton Subotnick, the man who: co-founded the San Francisco Tape Music Center; envisioned and developed the electronic synthesizer as a tabletop orchestral palette; created Silver Apples of the Moon, the first \u00c2\u00a0composition intended specifically\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;main&quot;","block_context":{"text":"main","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/category\/main"},"img":{"alt_text":"mort","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/mort.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":384,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2011\/02\/gowanus_a_brooklyn_neighborhoo.html","url_meta":{"origin":389,"position":1},"title":"Toxic Gowanus, Brooklyn neighb of new music lofts","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"February 24, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Gowanus, a Brooklyn neighborhood so unlovely it's been named an EPA superfund site,\u00a0is Ground Zero now for music lofts, as reported in my new City Arts-New York column. 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