ABSTRACT
Electronic music played a role in the development of their approaches to composition, but the two are most widely recognized as being key influences on a style of music called minimalism, which has had its own powerful impact on new music. Later in 1961, Sender and Morton Subotnick decided to pool their tape recording and audio equipment and founded the San Francisco Tape Music Center (SFTMC). The SFTMC was important not only because of the composers who worked there but also because its early history reflects the dilemmas faced by many American composers of electronic music in the early 1960s. Changes in leadership at the Mills Tape Music Center delayed plans to complete the new electronic music studio. The SFTMC was also unique among private American electronic music studios in that its success led directly to a sizable grant to become a part of Mills College.
