The Apocalyptic Music of Tod Dockstader

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Mon, 04/06/2015 - 8:00pm to 10:00pm
Tod Dockstader - 1932 - 2015

Tonight on A Different Nature, we'll hear some of the music of Musique Concrète pioneer Tod Dockstader, who passed away late last February.

Tod Dockstader (March 20, 1932 – February 27, 2015) was an American composer of electronic music, and particularly musique concrète. Dockstader was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States.  He studied painting and film while at the University of Minnesota, before moving to Hollywood in 1955, to become an apprentice film editor. He moved into work as a sound engineer in 1958, and apprenticed at Gotham Recording Studios, where he first started composing. Around this same time he also worked for Terrytoons along side Gene Deitch creating sound effects and writing stories for Tom and Jerry and other cartoons. Dockstader's first record, Eight Electronic Pieces, was released in 1960, and was later used as the soundtrack to Federico Fellini's Fellini Satyricon (1969). He continued to create music throughout the first half of that decade, working principally with tape manipulation effects. In 1966 Owl Records released four albums of his work from this period including what many consider to be Dockstader's masterpiece, Quatermass. He achieved modest recognition and radio play alongside the likes of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Edgard Varèse, and John Cage.
 
Dockstader was also a prolific writer, with several articles published by Electronic Music Review and The Musical Quarterly.
Hosted by Rich L.
 
Playlist:
08:00PM Tod Dockstader "Apocalypse: Part I" from "Luna Park; Traveling Music; Apocalypse" (1966) on Owl Records 
08:03PM Tod Dockstader "Apocalypse: Part II" from "Luna Park; Traveling Music; Apocalypse" (1966) on Owl Records 
08:05PM Tod Dockstader "Apocalypse: Part III" from "Luna Park; Traveling Music; Apocalypse" (1966) on Owl Records 
08:10PM Tod Dockstader "Water Music: Part I" from "Water Music" (1966) on Owl Records 
08:12PM Tod Dockstader "Water Music: Part II" from "Water Music" (1966) on Owl Records 
08:15PM Tod Dockstader "Water Music: Part III" from "Water Music" (1966) on Owl Records 
08:19PM Tod Dockstader "Four Telemetry Tapes, No. 1" from "Apocalypse" (1964) on Starkland 
08:22PM Tod Dockstader "Four Telemetry Tapes, No. 2" from "Apocalypse" (1964) on Starkland 
08:25PM Tod Dockstader "Four Telemetry Tapes, No. 3" from "Apocalypse" (1964) on Starkland 
08:28PM Tod Dockstader "Four Telemetry Tapes, No. 4" from "Apocalypse" (1964) on Starkland 
08:32PM Set break  — Background Music: Tod Dockstader - Eight Electronic Pieces
08:38PM WRVR Riverside Radio "Interview With Tod Dockstader" from "1964" -- Found at UBUWeb 
09:01PM Set break  — Background Music: Tod Dockstader - Eight Electronic Pieces
09:02PM Tod Dockstader "Quatermass+: No. 1. Song and Lament" from "Dockstader: Quatermass" on Starkland 
09:12PM Tod Dockstader "Quatermass+: No. 2. Tango" from "Dockstader: Quatermass" on Starkland 
09:19PM Tod Dockstader "Quatermass+: No. 3. Parade" from "Dockstader: Quatermass" on Starkland 
09:26PM Tod Dockstader "Quatermass+: No. 4. Flight" from "Dockstader: Quatermass" on Starkland 
09:34PM Tod Dockstader "Quatermass+: No. 5. Second Song" from "Dockstader: Quatermass" on Starkland 
09:48PM Set break  — Background Music: Tod Dockstader - Eight Electronic Pieces
09:49PM Tod Dockstader "Floatdown" from "Recorded Music For Film, Radio & Television: Electronic Vol.2" (1981) on Boosey & Hawkes 
09:50PM Tod Dockstader "Snowbell Waltz" from "Recorded Music For Film, Radio & Television: Electronic Vol.2" (1981) on Boosey & Hawkes 
09:53PM Tod Dockstader "Rotary" from "Recorded Music For Film, Radio & Television: Electronic Vol.2" (1981) on Boosey & Hawkes 
09:54PM Tod Dockstader "Binary Song" from "Recorded Music For Film, Radio & Television: Electronic Vol.2" (1981) on Boosey & Hawkes 
09:55PM Set break  — Background Music: Tod Dockstader - Eight Electronic Pieces
09:56PM Tod Dockstader "Drone (Excerpt)" from "Dockstader: Apocalypse" on Starkland 
 

 

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