Timbre, Timing, and Tuning:
A 30-year Retrospective of Composing Music With Computers
Mr. Dodge will discuss some of the uses he has made of computers
in a series of works that has evolved over three decades. The
emphasis will be on the use of the computer in those musical
situations where it was desirable to implement unusual notions of
timbre, timing, and tuning. Included among the specific works to
be discussed are Dodge's Speech Songs (1972), Any Resemblance Is
Purely Coincidental (1980), The Waves (1984), Viola Elegy (1987),
Violin Etudes (1993), and Fades, Dissolves, Fizzles (1996).
Baird Dodge will be present to play illustrative passages from
the viola and violin works.