Computer Music For Dorks: The Charle Dodge Episode
Charles Dodge was making computer music pretty much since the jump. Working with computers at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center and then later at his own studio out in Brooklyn, Dodge saw the possibilities of the computer for the realization of Cagean and new music concepts to great affect. Dodge was also ahead of the game in putting computer music, and experimental music in general, on record bringing sounds that were reserved for academic and scientific institutions to any record store peruser. Dodge’s record Earth’s Magnetic Field still sounds fresh and amazing to these ears. The concept that lived unnamed until very recently, sonification, was a child of Dodge’s and we look at some of the people who used that idea to ends not possible when Dodge first stepped in the game. For all you non-believers praying for my downfall.