Charles Dodge
"The first stage (in composing 'Speech Songs') was to reproduce the spoken voice as accurately as I could. I made one run through the poem that way. Then I made another run through the poem making continuous glides through the vowel sounds. Then I made another run where the natural pitch contour of the voice was replaced by a melody. And there were a couple of other runs, one where I replaced the vowel part of the speech with noise so that it sounded whispered ... the piece went together by cutting between them ..."
Composer, inventor, teacher, and author, Charles Dodge is a major innovator in the field of computer music. As a composer, he is best known for his many electro-acoustic works incorporating speech synthesis.
Dodge's music has been performed at Bourges, AGO Centennial Convention in New York, 25th Anniversary Celebration of Christian Wolff at Dartmouth College ... His awards include two Guggenheim Fellowships ... He is co-author of Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, and Performance.
Dodge lives in Vermont and teaches at Dartmouth College.
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