Tag: Doctor Who
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Malcolm Clarke on the Radiophonic Workshop
Malcolm Clarke was a composer and engineer for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, composing the music for many Doctor Who series. Apparently he wrote about the Workshop and his career for a thesis on interactive CD format (remember them?) and his son Ollie with Ray White has wisely converted and adapted the format for the web…
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AI Spirits
Something spooky for Hallowe’en is this video from MIT’s Deep Angel showing ‘AI Spirits’ – the reverse of neural networks and ‘deep mind’ removing people from photographs is to try and put them back again. The result is something akin to Doctor Who’s Army of Ghosts: (via Boing Boing)
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Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy reaches 40
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet where on 10:30 pm on Wednesday, 8th March 1978 a radio program went…
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RIP Dudley Simpson
A message on the BBC Radiophonic Workshop facebook group sadly told me that composer Dudley Simpson died over the weekend. He was mostly famous for providing music for Doctor Who and the theme music for Tomorrow’s People, but also theme music for Ascent of Man and Blake’s 7. He was 95, a good innings, but…
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What if John Carpenter did a Doctor Who Theme?
Liking this alternate dimension version of Doctor Who if John Carpenter did the theme, cheers me up after the shock of finding out that Red Dwarf has lyrics and I missed them all these years o.O (JC DW video via Thriftshop XL) He’s also done Vangelis and Jean Michel Jarre versions of the theme:
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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…