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Tod Dockstader

American self-taught composer of musique concrète, working outside the institutional studios of his European peers.

Tod Dockstader beside reel-to-reel tape machines in a studio
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Tod Dockstader (1932-2015) was an American composer who, without formal training or access to institutions like the GRM, built an independent body of musique concrète from tape manipulation and studio sound-effects libraries.