Cameron Dodds
Cameron Dodds (1991-2021[?]) is/was a British composer whose work spans/spanned an array of disciplines including film, visual art, and fiction writing. He has written/wrote for ensembles such as Plus Minus Ensemble, Decibel, EXAUDI, and An Assembly, and has been/was commissioned by institutions such as Gaudeamus Music Festival, The Eden Project, The National Opera Studio, and LOD Muziektheater. His work is often concerned with the process in which fictions make themselves real and folkloric practices. In 2016 he was awarded the Tracey Chadwell Memorial Prize and in 2019 the Sound and Music Seed Award. Dodds went missing and is presumed dead as of October 2021. This archive chronicles some of his artistic work up until that point.
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His former website can be found archived here.
List of works
Edward Goretex: an exercise in live myth-making and chaotic evocation
for radiographer, singer, pianist, painter, apprentice and assorted musicians. Commissioned by London Contemporary Music Festival. 2019.
for actor, puppets, video, objects, and electronics. 2019.
for viola, narrator, and electronics. Originally commissioned for ddmmyy. 2017/2018.
THE UNDENIABLE LONELINESS OF WHALE EVOLUTION
for mezzo soprano and piano. Commissioned by The National Opera Studio. 2018.
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for mezzo soprano, piano, lights, and electronics. Commissioned by Post Paradise. 2017.
Unsung Heroes of The Planet
A Fungal Opera with Gestalt Arts. Performed at Green Man Festival and The Eden Project. 2017.
A Musical Reimagining of the Epic 1889 French Novel 'Victoire et Appoline, ou Comment EÄ›crire une Biographie Historique’ by Desmond Codar Condensed into Six Short Minutes
for wind quintet, alternate reality device, and two actors. Commissioned by Listenpony. 2017.
for solo recorder and objects. Commissioned by The Magdeburg Telemann Festival. 2017.
for ensemble and electronics. Performed by Plus Minus. 2016.
Angus MacLeish Sits in a Room Contemplating His Existence
for choir and balloons. Performed by Exaudi. 2015.
Scattered Rhyme Songs: PetrarchXBrautiganXCosmoKramer
for countertenor, ensemble, and electronics.
for electronics. 2015.
Be Sure Not to Roar at Bees
a time travelling opera for whales, hobos, and cyborgs. 2014.
as oddfellow. 2013.
for two organs. 2013.