What are your recollections of your early days in New York City? I'd never done this before at this age, and, in addition, the COVID tests made everything more complicated. I'm getting a little confused about things, but luckily the music is not giving me any problems, just all the details.

Afterwards, I suggested an interview, which he graciously agreed to. In March 2022, Mort performed a monumental concert 'As I Live and Breathe' with German video artist Lillevan (Lillevan Recherche) at the Abrons Art Center in New York's Lower East Side. I continued to follow Morton's music, and our paths crossed many times over the years, whether in NYC or at European festivals. His follow-up album, The Wild Bull, was a powerful anti-war statement inspired by Pablo Picasso's Guernica brutal and exciting. Silver Apples… made it clear that Subotnick understood pulse and physicality in a way that the academics rarely did. (around the same time that I also came upon the equally visionary work of Iannis Xenakis and Harry Partch) exploded everything for me in the best way. As a tech geek and extreme music fan during my high school years in the late 1960s, I liked the idea of electronic music more than the actuality of what I was hearing from such places as the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center.

Now in his 90th year, Subotnick is still as energized and dynamic as ever.

A pioneer of modern electronic music, Morton Subotnick initiated technical innovations and created new sonic paradigms with his groundbreaking 1967 album Silver Apples of the Moon.

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