Tag: Ron Grainer
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Radiophonic Month at 3 blogs (Amor Dei found)
Three blogs, ‘Toys and Techniques’, ‘A Sound Awareness’ and Unman-Wittering devoted the whole of May as ‘Radiophonic Month‘ and have been posting all kinds of Radiophonic extremely rare gems such as the David Cain Seasons album that Jarvis Cocker has been err ‘rinsing’ on his excellent 6Music show and more importantly for me Amor Dei…
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Ada Lovelace Day: Delia Derbyshire
As part of Ada Lovelace Day organised by the wonderful Suw Charman-Anderson, Finding Ada has asked bloggers to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science. It’s obvious to me who to celebrate – Delia Derbyshire, mathematician, musician, sound artist, and early audio engineer/technologist. Born in Coventry in 1937 she grew up during the…
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Oh Delia
If you don’t know of my love of Delia Derbyshire and the mostly unsung heroes of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, well then start here. She produced and engineered the famous Dr Who theme (and if you watch the great Alchemists of Sound documentary, Ron Grainer asked ‘Did I really write that?’ when he heard it,…
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Radio Clash Show 34: the Delia Edition (was Summer Fight City)
Some Aural Alchemy, Summer in the City and it’s raining, highTunes 4.9 (or ‘Does Apple smoke corporate crack?’) and 2 (count em!) voicemails… Please listen here to Radio Clash Show 34: the Delia Edition (was Summer Fight City) (33Mb, 57:33) Shownotes https://media.blubrry.com/radioclash/www.radioclash.com/show-archive/rc_034.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:39 — 33.0MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |…