![]() ![]() ![]() I've carried that creativity into my academic work and am keen to encourage practical work on my courses that is informed (I hope!) by an enhanced historical and critical awareness. At the heart of this practice is a desire to create work that challenges the sensory hierarchy of contemporary Western culture and its privileging of sight over the other senses.Īll of my projects are shaped by my research and the inspiration I've gained from my students. I collaborated with the celebrated jazz musician and composer, John Surman, on The Cairn, open to the public as an audio-visual installation in 2005. In 1998, I collaborated with the acclaimed composer David Shea on a speech and sound piece titled The Voice (the score is now available on John Zorn's Tzadik label). That commitment to sound has encouraged me to combine practice-based research with my more conventional academic work. ![]() ![]() I'd be delighted to supervise research in these areas and am always happy to discuss possible topics (even if not from the above list!) in person or via telephone/email.Įver since the first School of Sound in 1998 and the inspirational presentations of Simon Fisher Turner and Peter Kubelka (among many others), I've been committed to the possibilities of juxtaposing sound with image (although my fascination stems from the magical credit Special Sound - Dick Mills and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop!). This interest in the audio-visual relationship is now at the heart of my work.Īs well as film music, my research interests include film noir, literary adaptations, non-naturalistic cinema/television and the fantastic on screen. The thesis set out my interest in the way meaning (particularly ideological notions of race and gender) is created in music and how film takes account of and contributes to that process. David is survived by his brothers Michael ’61 and Paul, sister Elizabeth and long-time partner Niwach Sudta.My PhD, examined by Richard Dyer and Peter Martin, explored the use and representation of jazz in film noir. “He was one of the best writers around.” David continued to maintain close ties to Dartmouth, serving as a Dartmouth club secretary in 1994 to 1995 and class agent from 1993 through 2001. “I admired him greatly,” said Denis Gray, former bureau chief of the Associated Press in Bangkok. David served on the board of the Foreign Correspondent’s Club of Thailand. He continued working as a journalist and freelance writer in Bangkok and in 1989 donated seven boxes of his papers on the last days of the American presence in Vietnam to the Dartmouth College Library. In 1982 he moved to Washington, D.C., to research and write a book about his experiences in Vietnam, resulting in The Fall of Saigon, published in 1985 by Simon & Shuster. David worked for NBC radio and Newsweek in Bangkok and New York. In 1974, working for NBC News, he was an eyewitness to the last few months of the war and one of the last journalists airlifted from Saigon in April 1975. Starting in 1971, David made several trips to Vietnam. David embarked on a career in journalism and from 1966 to1974 was features editor of Playboy. He was a brother of Kappa Sigma and member of Casque & Gauntlet. A native of Wakefield, Massachusetts, David graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth as an English major and senior fellow. David Butler ’63 died unexpectedly January 10 at Thonburi Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand. ![]()
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