“I don’t even know what it means,” Morton Subotnick admitted, when I asked if his music could be called psychedelic. We were sitting in his hotel lobby on a Friday afternoon, a few days before his concert at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter. The influential experimental/electronic music composer’s appearance fit right in the spirit of their program. Located 20 minutes outside of Oslo, Norway, the museum is currently holding a retrospective on Scottish artists Mark Boyle and Joan Hills, who collaborated with canonical psych rock acts Jimi Hendrix and The Soft Machine in the ‘60s. The couple’s visual art, some of which falls under a form known as “liquid light shows,” was important to a particular aesthetic. They were also averse to being labeled psychedelic since their work went far beyond that; the couple produced interdisciplinary studies, mixing art with environmental science and natural history.
Studio Metaphors
A Profile of Morton Subotnick
