Tod Dockstader

February 2, 2007 7:17 PM

Tod Dockstader.
posted by hama7 (22 comments total)

Huh. I've never heard of this guy before, but he sounds quite intriguing. Thanks for this post! Tod Dockstader.
posted by Greg Nog at 7:24 PM on February 2, 2007

I'm sensing a trend here somewhere.
posted by bob sarabia at 7:24 PM on February 2, 2007

Wow, what an interesting guy!
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 7:28 PM on February 2, 2007

I'm sensing a trend here somewhere.

You mean, of course, the trend toward septuagenerian composers reemerging and revisiting their musique concrète roots?

Oh, wait. No, you mean hama7 making FPPs that consist only of someone's name. That trend.

Dockstader is an interesting composer, and thanks for the post, hama7.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 7:46 PM on February 2, 2007

Pierre Schaeffer
posted by F Mackenzie at 7:48 PM on February 2, 2007

Edgard Varèse
posted by flapjax at midnite at 7:52 PM on February 2, 2007

Thanks, again.
posted by dobbs at 8:06 PM on February 2, 2007

Cool.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 8:15 PM on February 2, 2007

Love it. Thank you.
posted by gorgor_balabala at 8:45 PM on February 2, 2007

David Lee Roth
posted by fleetmouse at 9:43 PM on February 2, 2007

Beck.
posted by ZenMasterThis at 9:46 PM on February 2, 2007

Random Person
posted by yhbc at 9:50 PM on February 2, 2007

Stop Making Posts Like This
Stop Deleting Comments Mocking the Posts Like This
Just Stop Okay
posted by yhbc at 9:53 PM on February 2, 2007

The [der] part of the post (ubu web) is amazing. Joyce, Appolinaire, ee cummings, so many - reading their work. (Along with the subject of this post.)
posted by faux ami at 10:06 PM on February 2, 2007

Me

self link

And with all due respect to hama7's wonderful post.
posted by The Deej at 10:11 PM on February 2, 2007

hama7 is an über-user. If only more of us could talk in hyperlink so well.
posted by Burhanistan at 10:49 PM on February 2, 2007

Fantastic post, hama7, thanks. I knew nothing about this guy, and should have known about him long ago.
posted by mediareport at 11:38 PM on February 2, 2007

Oh, and Two Moons of Quartermass is brilliant ambient/collage/noise - just the right combo of structure and chaos, quiet and aggression. Most of the electronic experimental stuff I've heard from the 50s and 60s has been unlistenable, more academic than interesting. Dockstader's pieces are very different; something like Travelling Music sounds years ahead of its time. Even the harsher, more chaotic Apocalypse has more depth to it than other stuff I've heard from the same time. Thanks again, this is a great find.
posted by mediareport at 11:46 PM on February 2, 2007

John Daker
posted by moonbird at 6:12 AM on February 3, 2007

Coolness. I was just listening to Aerial #1. It's the only one of his albums I have, but I love it and I'm mad to get more.
posted by palmcorder_yajna at 6:18 AM on February 3, 2007

Alanis Morrissette
posted by jozxyqk at 7:43 AM on February 3, 2007

hama7 you've done it again. Despite the one name post, great post man.

I loves me some Dockstader. I just didn't realize how much.
posted by geekhorde at 2:27 PM on February 3, 2007