In addition to his work as a composer, Dodge is noted for co-authoring the highly praised book Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, and Performance, ISBN 0-02-864682-7īest known in recent years as the owner, with his wife Katharine, of the Putney Mountain Winery in Putney, Vermont. In May 2009 he retired from the position of Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College, a post he held for 18 years. In the early 1990s Dodge left Brooklyn College for Dartmouth College. During Dodge’s years as Professor of Composition and Director of the BC-CCM, Dodge not only had the BC-CCM designated as an official Center within Brooklyn College in 1978 but more importantly brought it to a world-class standing in the field of computer music. He also taught at the City University Graduate Center. Dodge was one of the leading innovators in the emerging field of computer music composition (as opposed to analog electronic composition, the norm in the field through the 1970s).įrom 1970 to 1977 he taught at Columbia and subsequently founded the Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music (BC-CCM) (1977) at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York where he was Professor of Music. While at Columbia, Dodge was very active at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. He also studied at Princeton University in 1969-70. He is a former student of Darius Milhaud and Gunther Schuller.ĭodge received his undergraduate education (BA) at the University of Iowa in 1964, and earned his MA (1966) and doctorate (DMA) (1970) at Columbia University.

Ames, Iowa, June 5, 1942) is an American composer best known for his electronic music, specifically his computer music.

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