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5.0 out of 5 stars
Sound Composition Master, July 27, 2005
This review is from: Dockstader: Apocalypse (Audio CD)
This is a great listening experience for anyone willing to LISTEN to a recording in the foreground rather than in the background. Dokstader's composition require patience and stillness as well as personal cerebral silence. His work acts like an aural sculpture and that in itself is a remarkable achievement. Whatever genre titles have been thrown at this form of composition (Concrete music, Tape music, Electronic), it is a form of musical expression unique to our time. Dockstader pulls at the day to day sounds that surround us snaring bits here and there, blending and cutting sonic landscapes the exist only in the ether between transmission towers and the microscopic space between iron-coated plastic tape and an electro-magnetized surface.
A great and important work!
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4.0 out of 5 stars
unmusic, September 23, 2005
This review is from: Dockstader: Apocalypse (Audio CD)
bought with "Quatermass"...certainly the better of the two...for those unfamiliar, dockstader was of the 'musique concrete' ilk (google it if you have to), so what you're gonna find here are everyday and some obscure sounds married electronically and transmuted into surreal compositions that defy anyone to dance to them...one of those albums best heard alone and intent upon, more of a study of the history of the evolution of modern sound, if you dig...most interesting after reading about dockstader and the complex techniques he had to employ to create these works in the 60's (yes, the 60's)...a collector's joy
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