Tod Dockstader - Quatermass (1992)
FLAC(image)+ CUE+LOG | TT - 73:11 | Full Scans | 351MB
Electronic, Electroacoustic, Musique Concrete | Label: Starkland | RS/FP
In the 1940s, before magnetic tape was widely available in the United States, electronic music pioneer Tod Dockstader made low-fi recordings on steel wire.
Born in 1932, Dockstader was part of the first wave of electronic musicians, who, before the advent of synthesizers in the early 1960s, worked with whatever hardware they could find: reel-to-reel tape machines, sine wave generators and a wild array of homemade circuits and military surplus gear. In the process, they created a universe of electronic music that still sounds unique and prescient today