Tag: BBC Radiophonic Workshop
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Happy Birthday Delia!
It would have been Delia Derbyshire’s 75th birthday today, so Soundhog has created a special mix to celebrate – loads of classic and rare Delian music in this mix from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and beyond, as well as some music from her colleagues and others inspired or relating to her work. You can read…
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The New Sound of Music
Well for 1979…this BBC documentary is a really good explaination about how sound synthesis works and where the technology has come from – and as well as featuring David Vorhaus and Peter Zinovieff aka founder of EMS, it also includes the Radiophonic Workshop with the likes of Malcolm Clarke. Peter Howell and Paddy Kingsland (and…
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RC 208: Drowning in The Sun
(Weymouth collage, by Tim B) From walks along cliff tops to the deaths of red tops, the paper sea keeps rolling on, so rains the British Summer. I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide, Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied…
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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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RC 173: Radiophonic at 50
The BBC Radiophonic Workshop turned 50 this year, and I pay tribute to the amazing work of this innovative electronic and electroacoustic music studio that created the music and sound effects for such radio and TV shows as Dr Who, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Changes, Blake’s 7, Lord of the Rings and The…