Tod Dockstader

have only listened twice, it's far more ruptured, more tracks, shorter sections, more turns. then coming together in the last third for a long slow burn.

still have to listen more, volume 1 still the one I listen to the most because I have a lot of time for the deepest drones in the world, but the violent scree on volume 2 grew on me, and volume 3 is different again still. yet is also clearly the overview ending stitching all of the strands together. definitely best to come to each disc in order for that reason. although each one feels like an independent, coherent piece.

many reviews online in places you usually trust to read about actual good music

http://www.woebot.com/2007/09/todd_spotted.html

catchin' up with my woebot posts

I wish I wouldn't have read the liner notes to Quatermass. Now whenever I hear "Water Music" I only feel stunned admiration that those are BALOONS. Hopefully this phase will pass with time.

I've got one of those "Aerial" albums - don't know which one - I must admit it didn't impress me much, bit bland I thought

OK, I checked, it's #3 I've got

scott's thread revival got me searching, and sure enough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUreKrTBres

not that great a cartoon, but the stretch of sfx at 4:30, definitely him

Great thread... I should pick up those Aerial volumes before they disappear.

@ 6:08-6:18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLNaq-7x7Qc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfMfDJugUBI#

milton, thank you so much for the tom & jerry 'toons. i am a huge old school 'toon shorts fan. i love t&j, and i never knew dockstader did some of the sfx.
i need a good T&J dvd collection. the looney toons golden collections are some of the best stuff i've ever bought. the stuff just make me grin from ear to ear.

A big piece I wrote on Tod Dockstader (includes a rare interview with the man himself)

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/06/tod-dockstader

the man. great work.

that forthcoming documentary you linked to is fairly intense; the preview suggests that it is much more a documentary about living with alzheimers than anything else; Todd listening to a recent work of his that he has already completely forgotten. but reading the director's notes about 'late period works', it seems like the focus will be on how underneath the symptoms this isn't just your typical patient. plus: two unreleased post-Aerial works in the trailer alone, with apparently quite a lot more to come

http://unlockingdockstader.blogspot.com/

this new collection of his 1979 library music is one of the coolest reissues of the year:

http://www.surus.co.uk/Mordant-Music/Electronic-Vol1-19100.aspx

some of it is "hauntological" in the boards of canada sense -- i feel like that's a red herring tho. there's not much here that screams 1979 except for the technology. most of it feels like '60s synthpop records by mort garson or dick hyman, with the breeziness but without the middlebrow kitsch.

oooh sounds amazing!

Yeah amazing. Wish the samples worked for me.

the last track, "soft aurora," is an early favorite. breathable/unhurried spaghetti sci-fi.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/hezmiz

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/861205874/unlocking-dockstader

And then I got an iPad. I started bringing that along and showing Tod different music making apps. The result is amazing. He's particularly fond of the official John Cage Prepared Piano app and the amazing multi-touch synthesizer TC-11

love TC-11.

the approach of this documentary looks to be almost uncomfortably personal, but also remarkable.

Important has two releases due for next year, a synth piece from 1970 and some recent post-Aerial digital works.

RIP? :(

http://twitter.com/geetadayal/status/571472511658954752

Man today is not a good day. RIP

now confirmed:
https://twitter.com/TodDockstader/status/571485001998577664

Still dig water music/apocalypse a lot, as well as the later pond frog album. A true electronic music pioneer.

a giant

Listening to Aerial.

I always loved that he wasn't an academic dude, just a guy with practical tape editing and engineering experience and an interest in sound.

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0972/4654/products/DOCK3_large.jpg?v=1578509137

Aerial is getting re-issued! Limited to 500 copies. Aerial 2 and 3 are to follow. I'm excited by this, never got to own it on vinyl before! It looks really pretty.