How To Tell A Sound #8: SF Tape Music Center Special w/ Ted Gordon & Eve Essex 07.10.2019

Musicologist Ted Gordon dives into the history of the San Francisco Tape Music
Center with host Eve Essex, presenting classic recordings as well as some
unreleased archival tapes created at the center. A collaborative studio,
workshop and performance institution founded in 1962, the Tape Center fostered
emerging electronic practices by artists including Pauline Oliveros, Morton
Subotnick, Ramon Sender, and William Maginnis. Discussion and playlist focuses
on 1962-1967, when the center moved to Mills College, and also explores Don
Buchla’s relationship with the center, including the development of his first
modular electronic music system there.