The San Francisco Tape Music Center, or SFTMC, was founded in the summer of 1962[1] by composers Ramon Sender and Morton Subotnick as a collaborative, "non profit corporation developed and maintained" by local composers working with tape recorders and other novel compositional technologies, which functioned both as an electronic music studio and concert venue.[2] Composer Pauline Oliveros,[3] artist Tony Martin and technician William Maginnis eventually joined the SFTMC.
The SFTMC was an active and important hub for experimental music and interdisciplinary art in the Bay Area from 1962 to 1966.
- ^ Bernstein, David W. (2008). The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 271. ISBN 978-0-520-24892-2. OCLC 174500759.
- ^ Bernstein 2008, pp. 9, 14
- ^ Rogers, Jude (23 April 2021). "Sisters With Transistors: inside the fascinating film about electronic music's forgotten pioneers".