Circuits in the Woods festival is excited to welcome Charles Dodge, early composer of electronic and computer music, founder of the Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music, and long-time professor at Dartmouth College, who will present a lecture on his work as well as play selections from some of his compositions.
The other Circuit in the Woods co-headliner is Guilford, Vermont's Wet Tuna.
One of the Circuit in the Woods festival co-headliners is Philadelphia's Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders
Founded The Iditarod in 1996, Black Forest/Black Sea in 2003 + Dire Wolves in 2008. Joined JOMF in 2013. Started The Heavy Lidders in 2019. Pome Pome Tones label + radio show. Former label owner of Magic Eye Singles + Secret Eye Records. Also on records from Kemialliset Ystävät, Avarus, Es, Fursaxa, Christina Carter, Gravenhurst, Jeffrey Alexander-Andrea Belfi-Stefano Pilia Trio.
It's sad that it doesn't go without saying, but the Circuits in the Woods festival is all-access, kind, welcoming of all the ways electronics can be used in / as music, and absolutely positively non-oppressive (aka racism, misogyny, trans- or homophobia will absolutely NOT be tolerated -- or, to be really plain, NO FUCKING NAZIS).
Some 60 miles north of Brattleboro, the Synclavier was developed in White River Junction.
https://www.commonsnews.org/issue/292/The-Synclavier-Born-in-Vermont
Brattleboro is not the only Vermont town deserving landmark status in the world of electronic music. About an hour up the Connecticut River, in White River Junction, in the building that now houses the Upper Valley Food Co-op, once lived the headquarters for New England Digital. “New England Digital started in the late 1970s, and between then and the late 1980s, they were at the vanguard of electronic music,” says Matt Bucy, former programmer for the company. The invention that...
This festival traces the ley lines that map Vermont's importance to the evolution and continuation of electronic music.
The Green Mountain State is home to the origins of electronic music. The invention of the analog synthesizer was completed in Brattleboro.
The terms “Vermont” and “experimental music” aren't often found in the same sentence. For the last hundred years, the state's three most popular musical exports have arguably been Rudy Vallee, Phish, and Grace Potter. In Windham County, Putney's Yellow Barn and the Marlboro Music Festival are world-famous to classical and chamber music lovers. And, with our rural, agricultural milieu, one could be excused for imagining every musician here plays acoustic guitar or banjo, or moonlights in a contra-dance band. But...
Jeremy Osborn
Circuits in the Woods