MUSC 108. Introduction to Music Technology - Fall 2013

12 Lecture - BBC Radiophonic Workshop

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Timeline

1958 BBC Radiophonic Workshop Formed. First mangers Desmond Briscoe and Daphne Oram.

1959 Daphne Oram leaves BBC.

1960 Delia Derbyshire joins BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Daphne Oram (1925-2003)

Daphne Oram documentary - Wee Have Also Sound-Houses Play to 3:11.

Francis Bacon Quote from "The New Atlantis" (162)

"We have also sound-houses, where we practise and demonstrate all sounds and their generation.

We have harmony which you have not, of quartersounds and lesser slides of sounds.

Divers instruments of music likewise to you unknown, some sweeter than any you have; with bells and rings that are dainty and sweet.

We have certain helps which, set to the ear, do further the hearing greatly; we have also divers strange and artificial echoes, reflecting the voice many times, and, as it were, tossing it; and some that give back the voice louder than it came, some shriller and some deeper; yea, some rendering the voice, differing in the letters or articulate sound from that they receive.

We have all means to convey sounds in trunks and pipes, in strange lines and distances."http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/bacon/atlantis.html

Oram tape messhttp://daphneoram.org/oramarchive/oramics/

The Oramics Machine

Early electronic music machine uncovered (3:48)

Delia Derbyshire (1937-2001)

Delia Derbyshire - Sculptress of Sound documentary 1/7 Play 1:30-4:58 (3:28)

Delia Derbyshire - Sculptress of Sound documentary 4/7 Play all. Excellent analysis of Dr. Who theme (9:34)

Delia Derbyshire - Sculptress of Sound documentary 6/7 Play 2:20-end Dance of Noah (3:32)

Delia Derbyshire Radio Scotland interview 1997 Part 2 Play start-0:45 and 5:35-8:55 Experiments with time. Way Out (4:05) 1967

1967 Delia Derbyshire - Ziwzih Ziwzih OO-OO-OO

1968 Delia Derbyshire/Pot Au Feu (3:18)

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