Tag: Daphne Oram
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Chris Carter on NTS
Chris Carter has his first album in 17 years out on March 30th, Chemistry Lessons Vol 1, which I’m really looking forward to from the bits I’ve heard, and he appeared on a couple of NTS shows to share two mixes of his favourite music. First up is the “>The Synth Hero Show – I…
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Russian Electronics – ANS
A random comment about KLF’s Space using some music from Solaris lead me to this, Musical Offering which is an album of Russian electronica circa 1971. Created on a machine called the ANS (Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin) synthesiser created by Evgeny Murzin, a photo-electric machine but sounds way before it’s time (apparently created between 1937 and…
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Radiophonic Podcasts
Here are a couple of Radiophonic podcasts/mixes I’ve been listening to – first is Attic Podcast #6 which they recently reposted, which is a good introduction with tracks from Maddalena Fagandini, Daphne Oram, John Baker and of course Delia Derbyshire all the way through to Glynis Jones, Malcolm Clarke, Peter Howell and Elizabeth Parker. As…
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Norman McLaren & Geoffrey Jones
The names of Norman McLaren and Geoffrey Jones pop up quite a lot especially given my love of Len Lye – but apart from Geoffrey’s Snow I’d not seen their work. How wrong I was! These films would be dead certs for VJing sets, if I was still doing it. Proving that Oramics was around…
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BBC Radiophonic Workshop rare footage
Firstly is a good mix of clips of all the archive footage – you’ll recognise some of this in later videos. I still haven’t found what I’m looking for – but the bonus is finding some rare footage of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Above is the Workshop in 1964 – with Jenyth Worsley, Maddalena Fagandini…
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Petition to the BBC to release Delia Derbyshire’s music
Amazing that Delia Derbyshire’s music has been hidden away for so long…her work has had the odd compilation appearance but unlike the others in the Radiophonic Workshop she’s never had officially an album of her own, a box set or ‘best of’ of her massive back catalogue. She’s arguably the most famous Radiophonic workshop via…