The Collectors – My Dear Various Disturbing Monsters (LP Vinyl) Vinyl Record
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Charles Dodge occupies a singular place in the lineage connecting academic computer music research to something genuinely listenable and strange. His work at Bell Labs in the early 1970s wasn't just technical experimentation; it put synthesized speech in conversation with poetry and surrealism at a moment when almost no one else was thinking that way, influencing generations of composers working at the intersection of language, technology, and sound.
DINTE reissues Charles Dodge's 1976 collection of synthesised speech music, 1972-1975. Using mainframe computers at Bell Laboratories, Dodge analysed and dismantled audio recordings of surrealist poetry by Mark Strand, mathematically and meticulously reconstructing them in synthetic form - resulting in these uncanny, landmark pieces that spearheaded early computer speech synthesis as a form for musical composition.
UPC: 4988004150531
Label: Baidis
Release Date: 11.13.26
Format: LP Vinyl