Tag: Paddy Kingsland
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Happy Birthday Radiophonic Workshop
BBC Radiophonic Workshop is 60 today, and the remaining members of the Workshop have posted this video to celebrate. It features a new track by Paddy Kingsland calles Radiophonic, and comes with some news – the back catalogue will be re-released on vinyl and CD, and a 60th box set with unreleased music. And, most…
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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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BBC Records mix & Vendetta Tapes
It’s been a Radiophonic sort of day, courtesy of Ian Fondue – starting with listening to John Baker’s Vendetta Tapes – it took me a long time to get around to this. I especially like Orbit and Lively Mind which I’ve never heard before, and bought again the COI Pavillion and Man Alive UFO cue…
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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 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…