Library Release

Eight Electronic Pieces

Tod Dockstader's self-produced 1961 debut, built after-hours at a New York radio station without institutional support.

Cover of Eight Electronic Pieces by Tod Dockstader
Folkways Records LP artwork.Source
Type
Release
Creator
Tod Dockstader
Year
1961
Subjects
Sound Technology
Smithsonian Folkways Discogs Composer's own page

Assembled over three years of after-hours studio time at the New York radio station where he worked, without formal training or access to institutions like the GRM, Tod Dockstader’s 1961 debut is a foundational, self-taught document of American musique concrète, informed by Varèse and Schaeffer’s tape experiments and Cage’s aleatory, neo-dadaist aesthetics.