Charles Dodge, half-length portrait, seated at desk with lamp, facing right, New York City, 1975
Charles Dodge, half-length portrait, seated at table, facing slightly left, New York City, 1975
Charles Dodge, half-length portrait, seated with elbow on desk, facing right, New York City, 1975
Charles Amirkhanian and Charles Dodge, half-length portrait, seated at desk examining a notebook
Charles Amirkhanian and Charles Dodge, half-length portrait, seated at desk examining a musical score
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KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ An Interview With Charles Dodge, 1975

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Event Type
Interviews
Origin
KPFA
Identifier
OTG.1975.12.03.c2
Program Length
30 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, his interest in synthesized speech, his collaborations with poet Mark Strand, and the various types of technology that he was utilized in realizing his tape pieces.
Genres
Electro-Acoustic / Electronic
Subjects
Computer music
Electro-acoustic
Electronic music
Sound poetry
Text-sound compositions
Synthesized speech music
Acknowledgment
Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Related places
Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)
Related Entities
Amirkhanian, Charles
Dodge, Charles, 1942-