Charles Malcolm Dodge (b.

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, June 5, 1942) is an American composer best known for his

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, specifically his

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Education and teaching career

Dodge received his undergraduate education (BA) at the

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in 1964, and earned his MA (1966) and doctorate (DMA) (1970) at

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. He also studied at

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in 1969-70. While at Columbia, Dodge was very active at the

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. Dodge was one of the leading innovators in the emerging field of

composition (as opposed to analog electronic composition, the norm in the field through the 1970s). From 1970 to 1977 he taught at Columbia and subsequently founded the Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music (BC-CCM) (1977) at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York where he was Professor of Music. He also taught at the City University Graduate Center. During Dodge’s years as Professor of Composition and Director of the BC-CCM, Dodge not only had the BC-CCM designated as an official Center within Brooklyn College in 1978 but more importantly brought it to a world-class standing in the field of computer music. In the early 1990s Dodge left Brooklyn College for

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. In May 2009 he retired from the position of Visiting Professor at

, a post he held for 18 years. In addition to his work as a composer, Dodge is noted for co-authoring the highly praised book ''Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, and Performance'', Daniel Hosken Computer Music Journal, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Winter, 1999), pp. 92-95 Best known in recent years as the owner, with his wife Katharine, of th
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Music

Dodge created many works in the field of computer music, including ''Earth’s Magnetic Field'' (1970), which mapped magnetic field data to musical sounds, ''Speech Songs'', a 1974 work that used analysis and resynthesis of human voices, ''The Waves'' (voice and computer music), ''Profile'', and ''Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental'' (1978), which combines live piano performance with a digitally-manipulated recording of Enrico Caruso singing the aria "Vesti la giubba."

Discography

''Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center 1961-1973'', New World Records, 1998. *"Earth's Magnetic Field" (originally released in a longer version on Nonesuch/Elektra 71250 in 1970) ''Computer Music'', Nonesuch/Elektra 71245, 1970 *"Changes" ''Synthesized Voices'', CRI SD 348, 1976. *"In Celebration" *"Speech Songs" *"The Story Of Our Lives" ''Electro Acoustic Music 1'', Neuma, 1990. *"Profile" ''Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental'', New Albion, 1994. *"Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental" *"Speech Songs" *"The Waves" *"Viola Elegy'" ''The Composer in the Computer Age III, CDCM Series Volume 18'', Centaur, 2006?. *"In Celebration"

References

External links

Charles Dodge page at Dartmouth College Department of Music site
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Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music

Listening

two works from ''Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental''
Art of the States: Charles Dodge
''Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental'' (1980)
Charles Dodge interview from American Mavericks siteCharles Dodge interviewed by Charles Amirkhanian, 1975
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