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FOCUS ON: Tod Dockstader
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Among a small but significant circle of folks, legendary electronic music pioneer, Tod Dockstader, has been cited as laying the groundwork for modern electronica as we know it today ( noted fans include Autechre & Matmos).
Born May 22, 1932 in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Tod Dockstader worked for animation production houses UPA and TerryToons before accepting a job at New York City's Gotham Recording Studios. There he created Eight Electronic Pieces, first privately issued and later picked up by Moe Asch's Folkways records in 1961. Subsequent efforts including Luna Park, Apocalypse and the epic Quatermass followed as well as contributions to Fellinis Satyricon. Dockstader operated, in large part, outside the sphere of the music world-record labels commonly rejected his efforts, and his attempts to join the famed Columbia-Princeton Center for Electronic Music were summarily dismissed. In the wake of the disastrous Omniphony project, he stopped making music altogether.
