KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Ode To Gravity: Charles Dodge

Analog Audio

Event Type

Interview and Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

OTG.1975.12.03.c1

Program Series

Ode To Gravity

Program Length

66 min

Dates

1975-12-03 | broadcast
| 402 | created

Description

Charles Amirkhanian interviews composer Charles Dodge. Dodge, who studied music with Darius Milhaud and Gunther Schuller, is perhaps best known as an electronic music composer who specializes in working with synthesized computer speech. Dodge received his MA and Doctorate degrees from Columbia University where he also taught in the 1970s. Later he went on to found the Center for Computer Music in New York, and has taught at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York , and Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. In this program, recorded in 1975, Dodge discusses how he composes and the various types of technology that he was utilized in realizing his tape pieces, illustrating his comments with three pieces utilizing texts by poet Mark Strand.

Genres

Sound poetry
Electro-Acoustic / Electronic

Musical Selections

Speech Songs: When I Am With You [excerpt, text by Mark Sands[ (1972) (0:28) -- In Celebration [text by Mark Strand] (1975) (8:31) -- Speech Songs: When I Am With You (1:38) ; He Destroyed Her Image (2:00) ; A Man Sitting In The Cafeteria (1:23) ; The Days Are Ahead (2:05) [texts by Mark Sands] (1972) -- The Story of Our Lives [text by Mark Strand] (1974) (18:21)

Subjects

Computer music
Electro-acoustic
Electronic music
Sound poetry
Text-sound compositions
Synthesized speech music

Related places

New York (N.Y.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)

Related Entities

Amirkhanian, Charles
Dodge, Charles, 1942-
Strand, Mark, 1934-