Sculptress of Sound 4/7
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- Опубликовано: 4 апр 2010
- The broadcaster and Doctor Who fan Matthew Sweet travels to The University of Manchester - home of Delia Derbyshire's private collection of audio recordings - to learn more about the wider career and working methods of the woman who realised Ron Grainer's original theme to Doctor Who.
Further details from www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rl2ky
Photographs are BBC/public domain. Used, by permission, from Ray White's 'Radiophonic Gallery', whitefiles.org/rwg/. 
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8:01 The most chilling sound ever created. 80% of what made Dr Who so incredibly scary when I was 7 was that plot climax point noise / music. A work of absolute genius.
Oh my god, her voice. I'm melting into a pool of crush -stricken goo.
It is a RCL filter! It can be active or passive. The tone does a mouth vowel sound by using a couple tubes or transistors for gain some resistors in signal with capacitance over 2 microFarads and a good deal of inductance with a coil around 1/2 Hy or more. The filter setting is changed to give the boooweee effect. I build them.
tart it up - yeah - Delia Derbyshire is my new heroine!
I'm with you!
They're saying "played on the Delaware". I'm assuming they mean the EMS Synthi 100?
The "WOBULATOR"? Sounds like one of the creature's the second Doctor ran into.
I stopped the video at 2:41 to look at the tape loop. Oh my, what it took then. And razors and splicing tape. Phew.
Yet another brilliant artist only really getting her due after death. Such a shame. Obviously, a few tried to get her, her credit due, but. . . well. . . . we all know how tough it is to get a 'her' her credit due. Maybe someday! Anyone reading, try splicing tapes together to make something coherent and beautiful.
Wtf? I have no idea what I meant by that, or why people have up-thumbed it, ha ha. I do know that like so many other music tech-nerds, I've been somewhat enchanted by the glorious DD and her contribution to music in general.
It was indeed the worst act of sacrilege to tinker with the Dr Who Theme. Especially what they did to it in the Peter Davison era!
That was John Nathan Turner's doing and he was quite proud of his 'improvements'. The best of the modern versions are the ones used in the first few years of the new series that don't even bother trying to replace the base and theme but just add other instruments around it. Nothing quite lives up to the original, pieced together bit by bit. I can't even imagine.
Ironic that you mention the Howell in particular, cos Delia loved his version. She greatly disliked the Eric Winstone version, the Geoff Love version, the Roy Budd version and mostly the Keff theme (1987-9).
genius
It seems like real artists walk off the scene once everyone else jumps on.
"tarting it up"
Bizarre redundant mixed-metaphor bro!
She's really cute too.
How effective are these at creating tritones?