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Re: First Excursions into Electronics



At 2:08 PM -0500 11/23/02, David Myers wrote:
>Decloaking briefly to interject my .02...  Between the Academy/fringe
>academy and rock-originated practitioners of EM, there's a tiny gap 
>occupied
>pretty much by one person: Tod Dockstader.  He wasn't musically trained 
>(and
>thus shunned by Columbia/Princeton, etc.), but he worked in full knowledge
>of the electronic/concrete music being done at the time.  Call him a folk
>artist, I guess, but his albums from 1958-1966 blow away most of what came
>out of universities or anywhere else, technically as well as artistically.
>Check out the CDs on the Staarkland label...

Dockstader's LP on Folkways was one of my early EM listening 
experiences. It's good to know he's available on CD.

BTW - Tom Steenland of Starkland will be a panelist on a surround 
sound session I'm organizing for December 13 in Beverly Hills. He'll 
be talking about the Immersion DVD-Audio disc.
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