The Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music began when composer
Robert Starer, then a faculty member at the
Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, proposed the creation of an
electronic music studio in the mid-1970s.
Jacob Druckman and
Noah Creshevsky were the studio’s first co-directors and the equipment consisted largely of
Moog analog synthesizers.
Charles Dodge took over as director in 1978 and was responsible for the studio's designation as the Center for Computer Music within
Brooklyn College. Dodge secured an initial donation of equipment from
Bell Laboratories, and then proceeded to acquire large grants from the United States Office of Education, the
National Endowment for the Arts, the City University of New York Faculty Research and Award Program, and the
Rockefeller Foundation, and donations from private individuals to fund BC-CCM work.
Noah Creshevsky assumed the directorship of the BC-CCM after Charles Dodge stepped down in the early 1990s and
George Brunner became Technical Director. At this time CCM began to host an International Electro-Acoustic Music Festival and concert series offering performances of music, video, film, and live electronic works by musicians from around the world and hosted residencies for many composers of national and international stature, including
John Cage,
Lejaren Hiller,
Laurie Spiegel,
Larry Austin,
Robert Dick,
Bob Ostertag,
Morton Subotnick,
Pauline Oliveros,
Jon Appleton,
Noah Creshevsky,
Jean Claude Risset, and
Lars Gunnar Bodin. When Creshevsky retired in 2000, George Brunner took over as Acting Director until
Amnon Wolman was named Director in 2003. Douglas Cohen served as Acting Director while Wolman was on an extended leave, and
Douglas Geers joined the faculty as Director of the BC-CCM in fall of 2009. == References ==