The Golden Dolden Box Set.
Very important: 4 levels of pricing on whether you want download or usb key mailed to you.
Please read further down after the description of the product.
All works prior to 2012 are new masters which have never been published. A few appear appear on my Bandcamp music page. The box set includes sixteen works that are new or were never released in any format before.

Forty years of full time work writing and producing new music reduced to a box set:
My entire life’s work reduced to 28 gigs containing:

1) 44 works totaling 10 hours of music at 44.1 khz/24bit.
Seven of these works were done since 2016, and have only been heard by my dog!
For those who listen to music from CD, I can send a link to the download version of the box set. The music in the download version is 16/bit/44.1khz wave files, which you can burn to cds.

Nineteen of these works are duplicated by also having a copy of the Hi Resolution version, (96 khz/24bit). (only on the full usb key version)

2) 34 scores

3) 33 educational talks totaling 6 hours, which contain music examples.

4) 4 essays on the music totaling 8,300 words and Program notes for the works totaling 6400 words.

The box set comes in two different formats with different prices:

1) A downloadable version (11 gigs) in which all the audio files have only one level of resolution:44.1 kHz/16bit.
Called= Golden Dolden Box Set download version
$80 Canadian (Cdn). Or more.

2) The full product contains audio files at 24bit, and 19 works have two levels of resolution: 44.1kHz/24bit and at 96 khz/24bit. The full product also includes a professional video of a chamber orchestra performing one of my works. This full product comes, in the mail, on a USB key and weighs in at 28.33 gigs.
Personal note and my autograph included! Elvis and Taylor Swift countersign!!!!
Called= Golden Dolden Box Set
$90(Cdn) in Canada, $99(Cdn) in America, $105(Cdn) other destinations. Or more.

Note: I had to put $80 as the price here. But that is for the download only. I have not put any charge for postage. Postage for usb stick will show zero dollars. But I trust your honesty to look at the prices I suggest for the USB key which has material costs and shipping.
If you are ordering the USB key please give me your postal address.
With the download version, you will get a link from my new google account: pauldolden1956@gmail.com
Check your spam if you do not see it in your regular email.

If you listen to music from CD buy the download version. The audio files are ready to burn CDs. The music will create about 8 or 9 cds. The educational material another 5 cds.

The box set on usb key will be a limited run of 100 copies. Each copy is numbered and signed by me.

Introduction. Written by Lawrence Joseph.

It may not yet be on the official list, but what is collected here in the Golden Dolden Box Set is a strong candidate for the Eighth Wonder of the World. Like the Great Pyramids of Egypt, one can marvel at the near-impossibility of the final construction and puzzle over how it was done. Like the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the works are impressively multi-tiered and include a dizzying array of architectural styles. Like the Temple of Artemis, the magnificent works here have been rebuilt several times; included in this Box Set are final remixed and remastered versions of several older works. Finally, aside from the sheer enormity of the achievement, the works contained in this Box Set are also reminiscent of the Wonders of the World in having been inspired by ancient tales, as hinted at in titles such as “Beyond the Walls of Jericho” and “Histoires d’histoire.”

Almost matching the lifetime of studio work necessary to produce the music in this Box Set will be the listener’s task of fully absorbing the voluminous material. Not only do you get decades worth of musical output, but each individual work is so detailed that one can spend many months delving into each one, successive listens revealing previously unobserved layers. Helping you to understand the complexity of the music are Dolden’s educational lectures, in which you learn not only about the works and the processes behind them, but more generally about composing and digital audio. And if that were not enough, you also get overviews of the composer’s thoughts through time about his own musical development and how it fits into the wider world of new music. Add to that full program notes for each work (sometimes with multiple versions of these notes), as well as many of the scores themselves. Considering that many of the scores contain hundreds of tracks, often using different tuning systems and different tempos simultaneously, you had better clear some quality time if you want to take in the full scope of this package.

Whether you decide to proceed chronologically and take in each work in-depth before moving on to the next, or prefer to listen to all pieces before later delving into the lectures, essays and scores, any time spent on the music and writings here will be amply rewarded. The Box Set will appeal to diverse audiences: First and foremost, fans of adventurous music can do no better than to listen to the music contained herein, arguably among the most creative and original ever imagined. Fans of rock music will revel in the amazing guitar solos and heavy walls of drumming integrated into many of the works. Open-eared jazz fans will appreciate the way in which soloing is stretched to extremes of melody and rhythm. Electro-acoustic music fans will find an alternative to the typical narratives based on the classical teaching of Stockhausen, Berio and Xenakis; here is a wider approach that incorporates not only this small subset but just about all possible musics of the world. Fans of classical music will discover another way the music could have evolved had most composers not been afraid to incorporate some rock beats with heavier syncopation and multi-rhythms into their music.

From an educational perspective, those concerned with the history of composed music who might wonder how “third stream” music might have more profitably evolved will find music that does not stop at two streams, proceeding to almost infinite streams of seamlessly fused sources. Indeed, the number of resources tapped into for the music on this Box Set stretches the boundaries of contemporary composition, rock, jazz and world musics, often cramming them all into the same musical section. Fans of any of these streams will be amazed at how far into the future this music will bring them. Serious students of music will profit from the educational lectures and scores, while explanations of how the different digital formats subtly affect the quality of sound will inform those more tech-minded.

If this music took a lifetime of unstinting careful labour (and fun!) to realize, it will be almost as much work (and fun!) to go through and fully absorb all details. While incredible effort has been taken to explain the music in the multitude of lectures and essays included here, the ultimate beauty lies in the fact the music still remains mysterious, seductive and stunning like no other music. Indeed, after listening to some Dolden, many listeners may find it pretty tough to go back to anything else. Fortunately, with this Box Set you will not have to do that for a very long time! So fire up one of those astonishing sounding 96kHz files and pop open the “Overview” document and start your journey!