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Tod Dockstader was born on 20 March, 1932 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S., is an American composer. Discover Tod Dockstader's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 82 years old?

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Occupation Composer, sound engineer
Age 82 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 20 March 1932
Birthday 20 March
Birthplace Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
Date of death 27 February, 2015
Died Place Arlington, Massachusetts, US
Nationality United States

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1921

Reinvigorated, Dockstader returned to music at the start of the 21st century, adopting computer composition in favor of tapes.

New CDs appeared from Sub Rosa and ReR Megacorp.

1932

Tod Dockstader (March 20, 1932 – February 27, 2015) was an American electronic music composer and sound designer.

He is regarded as one of the first American musique concrète composers.

Dockstader was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States.

1950

In the 1950s, he studied painting and film while at the University of Minnesota before moving to Hollywood to become an apprentice film editor.

1958

He moved into work as a sound engineer in 1958, and apprenticed at Gotham Recording Studios, where he first started composing; he also worked for Terrytoons alongside Gene Deitch.

1960

Dockstader's first record, Eight Electronic Pieces, was released in 1960, and segments were later used as the soundtrack to Italian film director Federico Fellini's Fellini Satyricon (1969).

He continued to create music throughout the first half of the decade, working principally with tape manipulation effects.

After leaving Gotham Recording Studios in the late 1960s, he formed the audio-visual service Westport Communications Group along with business partner, and former Gotham executive, Fred Hertz.

The company focused on corporate clients and produced award-winning educational films for the American Heritage series.

Dockstader was also a prolific writer, with several articles published by Electronic Music Review and The Musical Quarterly.

1961

From 1961 to 1962, when Deitch directed thirteen new Tom and Jerry shorts, Dockstader was responsible for creating the unusual, heavily reverberated sound effects heard throughout them; he also wrote the shorts Mouse into Space and Landing Stripling.

In 1961, he applied to use the facilities at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center and was denied access in separate rejection letters penned by Vladimir Ussachevsky and Milton Babbitt.

Ussachevsky’s official reason was the “overstrained” scheduling of the studios, although it was suspected that Dockstader's lack of academic training was a factor in the decision.

1966

In 1966, Owl Records released four albums of his work from this period, including Quatermass.

He achieved modest recognition and radio play alongside the likes of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Edgard Varèse, and John Cage.

1969

Alvin Lee of the band Ten Years After took influence from Dockstader when recording the band's experimental album Stonedhenge (1969); he said he was in a "musique concrete phase."

Classic Rock's Hugh Fielder deemed Dockstader an "avant garde industrial composer".

1990

In the early 1990s, Starkland re-released most of the content of Dockstader’s out-of-print Owl records, along with previously unreleased material.

The two CDs brought new, significant acclaim to the composer.

The Washington Post called Dockstader "a highly imaginative pioneer," and The Wire concluded, "The obsessive care with which Starkland have compiled these extraordinary recordings should ensure that Dockstader will be remembered as the innovative, visionary figure he undoubtedly was."

2000

Created from 2000-2008, these were among the last pieces composed by Dockstader, before dementia made his studio work too difficult.

2011

Work on a documentary about his life, Unlocking Dockstader, was begun in 2011, however lack of funding has stalled the project.

2015

He died in Arlington, Massachusetts, on February 27, 2015, at the age of 82.

2016

In 2016, Starkland released From the Archives, a CD that premiered 15 works selected from the unexpected discovery of 4,200 sound files found on Dockstader's private computer after his death.