Over the course of thirty minutes,
Silver Apples of the Moon presented a change for serious electronic music. Unlike many other early synthesizer records, the music here is continuous, powerful, almost overwhelming. The work is also reliant on a breathtaking variety of sounds: clicks, chirps, buzzes, gongs, hums, sirens. Some of these are de rigeur for an academic synthesizer record, but many continued to sound fresh decades after its recording.
Silver Apples of the Moon deserves credit not just because it's one of the earliest albums produced by a modular synthesizer, but because it's a great piece of music. A 1994 reissue by Wergo added
Subotnick's 1968 work "The Wild Bull" to the CD program. ~ John Bush