Warner Jepson (March 24, 1930 – July 5, 2011) was an American composer who lived in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was a pioneer in the electronic music scene, and composed a variety of works including film and ballet scores. An early member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center who worked with some of the most prominent musicians and artists of the San Francisco Bay area throughout the mid-1960s and 1970s (e.g., Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Pauline Oliveros, Steve Reich, and Yvonne Rainer). Jepson was also one of the first musicians to ever use the Buchla 100 modular synthesizer when Don Buchla first revealed the prototype for his famous “Buchla Box”... « The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age » was composed for the opening of the San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art show to blend with the crash, clash, whir and chug of the more than 200 works of art. « A Happening (multimedia theme party) which Warner was both a pioneer and known for producing these events. Artists who were doing a show would ask him to put together a party to opening with His music, rock bands, art materials of his choosing, people getting painted naked... You know late 60's early 70's things one does... » said Matt Jepson, the son of the composer. Matt has been working on restoring the great instruments of his Dad as well as hours...  more

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from Modulisme Session 022, released June 26, 2020