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something for the fans of biosphere's substrata album..i've read quite a bit about this dockstader fellow and he seems like a real interesting person..and his music is just as intriguing. Tod Dockstader is one of the all-time great figures in the world of musique concréte composition, with his "organized sound" works from the 1960s being amongst the most radical ever coneived -- in league with Schaeffer, Henry, Stockhausen, and Varese. Aerial is a rare new work in the realm of shortwave radio, from one of America's most experimental composers. This release is the first (Volume 1) in a three-part series. Volume 2 and Volume 3 will be released separately and packaged in individual standard jewel cases that will conveniently fit into the slip case provided with Volume1. "I've written before of my interest in shortwave radio. When I was very young, people got most of their entertainment from radio. They called it 'playing the radio,' as if it were a musical instrument. That's what I've tried to do in this piece. About this time, a few people encouraged me to look into using a computer for this work. I'd never used one, but I saw it would allow me to keep my mixes digital -- no more transfer losses. So, at the end of 2001, I got a computer and an editing program for it, and spent what seemed a long time learning it. I began selecting mixes and loading them into the computer in late March 2002. Out of the 580, I selected 90 'best' mixes -- eventually reduced to 59, the ones included on the CDs. Finally, in assembling the CDs, I followed David Myers' suggestion to allow each piece to flow into the next -- making a continuous journey to the end." ? Tod Dockstader, 14 September 2003. |
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This month's wire interview piqued my interest a fair bit, i'm still meaning to give his stuff a proper checking out. That link doesn't point to any samples but i searched for aerial and really liked it and it was cool. He just went to the top of The List. |
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yes, i've read about him in the wire as well..then checked it out and loved it :) |
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yeah this is sweet. |
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you know of more stuff like this? |
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So funny. I was researching Tod tonight. I was checking out his travelling music. I love this guy's stuff. I want to know more about his studio and how he did it all. Travelling music has a thick warm evolving sound. Aphex plays his stuff in live sets too. Some sounds I thought were his they are so aphex, but they were instead Mr. Dockstader . |
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oh, i had no idea about aphex playing his stuff..i'd never imagine that either..that just makes tod more special to me :D |
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i dont know much about tod dockstader (only track from OHM compilation) but i've been into parmegiani lately: fuckin brillant, la création du monde is a true masterpiece, i needed time to get into it but its just mindblowing, wiked (call me a stalker but after a quick search i found his phone number, i thought about giving him a call to tell him his records are awesome but that would be ridiculous/freeky!!). got to find docksteader records.. |
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this particular album actually reminds me quite a bit of Zoviet France, and maybe some Hafler Trio stuff...also maybe Walter Marchetti... i would imagine a lot of his earlier works (none of which i have heard yet, unfortunately) are a lot less minimal than this... bein' mostly a musique concrete guy, i figure a lot of his stuff is pretty busy and jumpy... but who knows... anyhow you should definitely hear other stuff by him... if you have trouble i can help you i think. |
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excellent, thank you! must check that machetti guy! also tod's other stuff. |
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