The San Francisco Tape Music Center, or SFTMC, was founded in the summer of 1962 by composers Ramon Sender and Morton Subotnick as a collaborative, "non profit corporation developed and maintained" by
Ramon Sender 2011
Morton Subotnick 2012
Terry Riley
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Terrence Mitchell Riley is an American composer and performing musician best known as a pioneer of the minimalist school of composition. Influenced by jazz and Indian classical music, his work became
San Francisco Tape Music Center
…fellow composition student of Robert Erickson. The first Sonics concert of December 1961 consisted of original tape compositions by Oliveros, Sender, Terry Riley and Philip Winsor as well as a collaborative live improvisations. The sixth and last concert of the series took place on June 11, 1962. The premiere…
Terry Riley in 2017
Riley at the Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, 1985
Riley performing in 2018