San Francisco Tape Music Center / EMPAC – Sender: Tropical Fish Opera (1962)

WOW & FLUTTER, October 1 and 2, 2004: A festival by EMPAC/Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute () celebrating 40 years of evocative creation featuring works and performances by the founding members of The San Francisco Tape Music Center (1962-1966). The San Francisco Tape Music Center1960s, Counterculture and the Avant-Garde, University of California Press() – This book tells the story of the influential group of creative artists—Pauline Oliveros, Morton Subotnick, Ramon Sender, William Maginnis, and Tony Martin—who connected music to technology during a legendary era in California’s cultural history. David Bernstein, editor. Tropical Fish Opera (1962) During the Sonics series of concerts at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (1961-62), it became traditional from the beginning to include a live improvisation, and many of these events were named “operas,“ inasmuch as they frequently included dancers from t