Charles Dodge
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Charles Dodge is a composer of a wide variety of music who is known primarily for his pioneering work in computer music. Much of his computer music since the early 1970s has incorporated the sound of the live, recorded, and synthesized human voice articulating texts by such contemporary writers as Samuel Beckett, Virginia Woolf, Dale Worsley, Wallace Stevens, and Richard Kostelanetz. He has been honored with a citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship, and two Guggenheim Fellowships. Major performances of his works include those at the New York Philharmonic's Horizons '84 Festival, the computer music festival of the San Francisco Symphony, the Venice Biennale, the Olympic Arts Festival in Los Angeles, the Warsaw Autumn Festival, the Calarts Festival, and the Stockholm Festival of Electronic Music. He is the coauthor, with Thomas A. Jerse, of Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, and Performance, published in 1985 by Schirmer Books. His commissions include those from the Fromm Music Foundation, the Koussevitzky Foundation, Nonesuch Records, Swedish National Radio, the American Composers Orchestra, "Voices," the MIT Experimental Music Studio, the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, the Sao Paolo (Brazil) Biennale, and a Meet the Composer/Readers Digest commission. Among the labels where his works have been recorded are Nonesuch, CR1, Crystal, 1750 Arch, Fylkingen, Folkways, and Wergo. In addition to his work as composer and teacher, Mr. Dodge is active in the musical life of New York City. He serves on the boards of a number of organizations k>r new music, and he has been president of both the American Composers Alliance and the American Music Center. He is Professor of Music at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, where he directs the Center for Computer Music.
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