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Silver Apples Of The Moon (vinyl Rip) ⚡ | EXCLUSIVE |

Subotnick composed the album over 13 months in a small New York studio, working 10 to 12 hours a day on a modular synthesizer.

: He helped designer Don Buchla develop this synthesizer, which notably lacked a traditional keyboard, using touch-sensitive plates instead to avoid the "tyranny" of standard scales.

: The name comes from W.B. Yeats’s poem, The Song of Wandering Aengus . The Sonic Journey Silver Apples Of The Moon (VINYL RIP)

The album is split into two distinct sides, originally dictated by the physical limitations of vinyl:

Because the album was designed as an intimate "chamber music" experience for home listening, the original vinyl pressings are highly sought after by collectors. In digital music circles, a "Vinyl Rip" of Silver Apples of the Moon is often prized over standard digital remasters because: “Silver Apples of the Moon”--Morton Subotnick (1967) Subotnick composed the album over 13 months in

: A slow, atmospheric exploration of "pitch" and timbre, full of whistles, sirens, and alien-sounding chirps.

: The production was painstakingly manual. Subotnick would spend up to 10 hours fine-tuning a single sound, recording it to one of two tape recorders, and then overdubbing it with new layers. Yeats’s poem, The Song of Wandering Aengus

: A groundbreaking experiment in "rhythm". It features a steady, sequenced pulse that many critics now credit as a direct ancestor to modern techno and electronic dance music . The Legend of the "Vinyl Rip"