# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/morton-subotnick
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:10:59.489Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/morton-subotnick"
name: "Morton Subotnick"
slug: "morton-subotnick"
description: "Morton Subotnick is an American composer of electronic music, best known for his 1967 composition Silver Apples of the Moon, the first electronic work commissioned by a record company, Nonesuch. He was one of the founding members of California Institute of the Arts, where he taught for many years."
tagline: "American neo-classical composer and avant-garde electronic musician (born 1933)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Simultaneous_MIDI_control_and_Buchla_touch_keyboard.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1933-04-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm1302590"
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    url:       "http://www.mortonsubotnick.com/"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Morton Subotnick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Morton Subotnick"
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    title: "Morton Subotnick"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump