Tag: Peter Howell
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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 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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What the Future Sounds Like
Love this documentary about British electronic music, specifically Tristram Cary, Peter Zinovieff, David Cockerell as the inventors of the EMS synth. Love that pipe – not enough electronic music is composed whilst in a turtleneck and a pipe nowadays! (via Eric Kleptone). Also if you’ve not listened to the BBC Selected Radiophonic Works from Radio…
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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…