Tod Dockstader was an American electronic music composer and sound designer.
10 Facts About Tod Dockstader
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Tod Dockstader is regarded as one of the first American musique concrete composers.
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Tod Dockstader moved into work as a sound engineer in 1958, and apprenticed at Gotham Recording Studios, where he first started composing; he worked for Terrytoons alongside Gene Deitch.
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From 1961 to 1962, when Deitch directed thirteen new Tom and Jerry shorts, Dockstader was responsible for creating the unusual, heavily reverberated sound effects heard throughout them; he wrote the shorts Mouse into Space and Landing Stripling.
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Tod Dockstader continued to create music throughout the first half of the decade, working principally with tape manipulation effects.
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Tod Dockstader achieved modest recognition and radio play alongside the likes of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Edgard Varese, and John Cage.
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Tod Dockstader focused on corporate clients and produced award-winning educational films for the American Heritage series.
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Tod Dockstader was a prolific writer, with several articles published by Electronic Music Review and The Musical Quarterly.
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Work on a documentary about his life, Unlocking Tod Dockstader, was begun in 2011, however lack of funding has stalled the project.
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Tod Dockstader died in Arlington, Massachusetts, on February 27,2015, at the age of 82.