Sub Rosa
Aerial
SR 223, SR 228 & SR 233 [2005]
"Airwaves allow for a silence that is not dead, representing a presence even wthout a signal"
Dockstader has given up tape manipulation in favour of working with frequencies and computer composition. Unlike the cycle of 1960-65, these pieces no longer rely on interruptions, accumulations, and complex acceleration effects. Instead, we have slow, penetrating pulses that explore every corner with celestial thrills.
An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music / Second A-Chronology 1936-2003
SR 200 CD [2003]
Aerial > Song, alongside works by Autechre, Captain Beefheart, Sun Ra, Arcane Device, Percy Grainger, Morton Subotnick, SPK and others.
Creel Pone
“Creel Pone began as the first ever reissue series for LP covers and related packaging items, with everything printed as closely as possible to exact 5/12 scale including the inserts, label ephemera, booklets. In fact everything but the LP labels and the LP itself. But almost immediately people wanted the missing element so Creel Pone began including the music inside the sleeve on a CD-Recordable. This makes the Creel Pone more expensive to produce than they are sold for; but really it's not about having anything to do with money but just a way for pure and great art both in vision & sound to prosper and be discovered anew.”
Creel Pone editions [http://www.orkstorm.com/creelpone/] can be purchased through www.mimaroglumusicsales.com
tod dockstader “electronic [sbh 3073]” compact disc recordable
#creelp dockstader cd [2005]
This creel pone edition includes:
- 1 x crystal-clear resealable polypropylene cd sleeve with a green / silver foil stamp affixed to the exterior
- 1 x hand-cut single-sided inkjet-printed card-stock insert
- 1 x one-color inkjet-printed compact disc recordable in a high-density round-bottom cd sleeve
A reproduction of Dockstader’s first LP of library music for Boosey & Hawkes.
tod dockstader “electronic [sbh 3082]” compact disc recordable
#creelp tod cd [2002]
This creel pone edition includes:
- 1 x crystal-clear resealable polypropylene cd sleeve with a black / silver foil stamp affixed to the exterior
- 1 x single-sided six-color inkjet-printed hand-cut glossy-photo-stock booklet
- 1 x four-color inkjet-printed compact disc recordable in a high-density round-bottom cd sleeve
A reproduction of Dockstader’s second LP of library music for Boosey & Hawkes.
ReR MEGACORP
Bijou (with David Lee Myers)
ReR TDDM2 [2005]
A subtle, moody, rich and wide-ranging work, in which atmosphere, emotion and dramaturgy lead the ear far beyond music into a world of hints, evocations, anticipation and association and, in passing, reveal a complex metonymic language that, at a deep level, invokes that mostly unconscious lexicon of sound we have all absorbed collectively and subliminally in the course of a century of movie-going, television viewing, documentary recording and electroacoustic experimentation. Once sounds have been abstracted from events, they are free to act and interact as signs; they are no longer indications of the real. And from their use as indicators we learn new meanings (the low drone from Jaws, the shower strings from Psycho, a TV theme, these are all as directly meaningful to us as a barking dog or an approaching train; after 1000 movies, the sound of a helicopter has as many fictional as factual meanings, and these accretions make experience imaginatively richer). This is the language Dockstader and Myers explore, and although, in a sense, such signs are weightless (there is nothing there), nevertheless we cannot unhook them and inevitably they conjure fragmentary narratives, events, places, situations and meanings. Where their last CD (Pond) abstracted sound from the life (in fact, documentary recordings of frogs), this one invokes a fictional life invoked in a language of purely mediated abstraction.
Pond (with David Lee Myers)
ReR TDDM1 [2004]
Pond is a collaboration between Tod Dockstader and David Lee Myers, born of a long written correspondence and a mutual affection for frogs between them which eventually spawned this programme of electronic/concrete pieces. The pieces are derived almost entirely from field (and swamp) recordings of frogs - choral and solo - processed, manipulated and organised in a million ways. David Lee Myers released a number of recordings in the 1980s under the name Arcane Device, where the musical material was derived from almost uncontrollable feedback systems. In this recording, Dockstader used computers to manipulate the sounds for the first time, with the assistance of Myers, and recently remarked that he 'realised that many of the old principles - slowing, speeding, pitch-change, reversal - were the same - but with much more control and better sound (and no tape hiss). Because it was faster and I could keep my belief in what I was doing, more fun.'
Omniphony 1
ReR TODD1 [2002]
Reissue with a stereo version of Study No. 7 of the Eight Electronic Pieces and Past Prelude.
Locust Music
Eight Electronic Pieces
LOCUST 36 [2003]
Reissue of Dockstader's crucial and remarkably advanced early concrete pieces, originally released privately and then reissued by Folkways in 1961. Tod Dockstader did the analog-to-digital transfer from the original tape, and Ernst Karel mastered the recordings for CD.
Ellipsis Arts
Ohm: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music
CD3670 [2000]
Apocalypse (part 2), alongside early electronic works by other composers including Robert Ashley, David Behrman, John Cage, Luc Ferrari, Edgard Varèse (Poème Electronique) and Iannis Xenakis. A compilation on a 3xCD box set with 90-page booklet was originally released, then re-released as a “Special Edition” which included a 2 hour DVD containing films, interviews and animations of the various artists featured on the CDs.
STARKLAND
Quatermass
ST-201 [1992]
Water Music, Quatermass, and Two Moons of Quatermass.
Apocalypse
ST-202 [1993]
Luna Park, Traveling Music, Drone, Apocalypse, Two Fragments from Apocalypse, Four Telemetry Tapes.
From A to Z
ST-203 [1993]
Excerpt from Luna Park, Part Three (from Apocalypse), Tango (from Quatermass), plus works by Paul Dresher, Joseph Kasinskas, Joseph Lukasik, Pamela Z, Barbara Imhoff, Charles Amirkhanian, and Phillip Kent Bimstein.
Boosey & Hawkes
The Boosey & Hawkes Recorded Music Library (now Cavendish Music - www.cavendishmusic.com) contains music specifically written for use in Audio-Visual Media (advertising, television, film, corporate videos etc). It is a business to business music service that is licensed to end users at set rates controlled by a separate society, MCPS (The Mechanical Copyright Protection Society). The albums are not released commercially or sold for profit to the general public - income is generated via licensing and royalties from broadcast & airplay. SBH 3073 & SBH 3083 are old catalogue numbers for the library and would have been written and recorded to be marketed to clients and royalties collected via MCPS/PRS.
Recorded Music for Film, Radio & Television: Electronic
SBH 3073 [1979]
Jigjag, Floating Up, Glider, Howl Stomp, Steam Megawatt, Snap Sail, IC Arabian, Pile Readout, Pond Dance, Holiday Meltdown, Séance, Old Dark Clock, Soprano Aloft, Powerdown, Signal Powerdown, Snap Prance, Night Wolves, Bottle Dervish, Frog March-By, Sun Surges, Blackhole Dropout, Sundrift, Soft Aurora
Recorded Music for Film, Radio & Television: Electronic
SBH 3082 [1981]
Floatdown, Snowbell Waltz, Rotary, Binary Song, Stardrift in Two, Gentle Retrieval, Ion Armada, Ion Drive, Stately 'Bones, Bellstomp, Knockwhistle, Silver Float, Chuffa, Boingo Background, Khiss Dance, A Little Quiet, Tictic, Windbuzz, in Two, Brass Slipnslide, Machine Brass, Slambrass, Soft Wow, Knockgliss
OWL Records
Owl was originally (around 1961) 'Owl Records' when the Dockstader LPs were released. Then, later (around 1976), it became 'Owl Recording, Inc,' a nonprofit corporation. These Owl records have been sold out for some time.
ORLP-6 [1966]
Luna Park, Apocalypse, Traveling Music.
ORLP-7 [1966]
Drone, Water Music, Two Fragments from Apocalypse.
Quatermass
ORLP-8 [1966]
Song and Lament, Tango, Parade, Flight, Second Song
Omniphony I
ORLP-11 [1966]
Composed by Tod Dockstader and James Reichert.
Smithsonian Folkways
Folkways recordings can be obtained from the Smithsonian Institute, a major nonprofit arts institution in Washington, DC. They will send cassettes or CDs of titles in their catalogue on request.
Eight Electronic Pieces
Folkways SM 3434 [1961]
Dockstader's crucial and remarkably advanced early concrete pieces, originally released privately. This particular recording has been re-issued on the Locust label with new liner notes. Tod Dockstader did the analog-to-digital transfer from the original tape, and Ernst Karel mastered the recordings for the Locust CD.