Delia Derbyshire - Sculptress of Sound documentary 1/7
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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
This is part 1 of 7; the programme is divided into chunks to fit RUclips's 10 minute length limit.
Photographs are BBC/public domain. Used, by permission, from Ray White's 'Radiophonic Gallery', whitefiles.org/rwg/. 
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She is my hero. I am a math major.... And know music. I love her
Her introduction in my theory on music changed everything for me. She is a beautiful mind.
An absolute pioneer in electronic music. Years ahead of her time.
Her theme use to scare the crap out of me when ever doctor who came onto the tv , I was 4 years old at the time however now it is a large potion to the soundtrack of my life! I carnt wait to introduce my child to her life changing audio image-scapes. thank you Delia you are missed!
5:37 - "Love Without Sound" on "Electric Storm" album by the group White Noise. I have the original vinyl and a CD.
"She never asked for anyone's sympathy"... eerie how the song fits that moment. Thanks for posting this!
What a wonderful mind this person had... A genius!!!! God bless this woman...
A shame she let it all go and turned to alcohol.
Meet the people you should thank for creating basically cut and chop - sampling musical creativity - The wobulator.
Delia helped to create one of the most Powerful & Incredible Psychedelic Albums ever period "White Noise" An Electric Storm" if you love Delia's Work you have to hear this album..this is no light weight 60;s Pop Psych..this is the real deal..Mind blowing in every sense of the Word
The 2nd & 3rd White Noise albums weren't quite as good. Mostly just David Voorhaus' synth stuff.
legend
Delighted to find this here; thank you Delia, even your name is musical! :-D
I was at a Panopticon (convention) in which Delia was a guest in the 1990s. She was quite overcome and cried.
Thank you so much for putting this series of Delia on to RUclips. I now have a name to put on the hundreds of snippets of sound and music I have heard over the years. It is amazing how many individual sounds I recognize right away in this series, and I grew up in Sweden! I didin't even listen to BBC radio at the time. Yet I recognize the soundscapes from movies, TV shows, and the occasional BBC radio shows I have heard since then.
thanks so much for posting this
THANKS SO MUCH for those documentaries on early electronic music you`re bringing to us !!!!! GREAT WORK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My Hero!
I've already opened 3 tabs and started them at different times.
VERY COOL LADY!!!!!!!!!!
bloody great post... thx a million !!!
The BBC were such stuffed shirts that they refused to give her any money, recognition or credit for the music she did for Dr. Who.
Thanks for posting this:)
So great.
This is so important to the pioneering of the electronic age its a crime she not been given a spot in RanR hall of fame
Very great ideas. White Noise "An Electric Storm " for me one of the greatest Album ever, the women speak like Laurie Anderson, this is the real music 👍👍👍
I was looking up the filming locations of the film The Legend of Hell House and saw that she was one of the composers of the film. Going further I discovered to my great pleasure that she is the composer of the original theme to Dr. Who! One of my favorite television programs. She is now one of my favorite people.
I lift my glass of Shiraz Cab to you. Such a pioneer.
Thanks, for uploading this. I feel very grateful to Delia, thanks partly to her interpretation of the Dr.Who theme, I have had lifelong pleasure watching the program. I am so sorry, that her talents were lost to the workshop & things did not go better for her personally.
She was obviously a very talented Lady, ahead of her time in her chosen field & although innovative, also I would guess a purist to some extent. R.I.P. Delia, thank you so much. If you do not mind, I will add to my page. :)
wow... amazing...
Shouldnt be forgotten, as I have...its our effects heritage...another genius...did she know everett...
The queen mother of electronic music. Gone but never forgotten, should be called "Goddess of Sound" in my humble...A
Yes it was indeed the Australian and extremely talented Ron Grainer who composed the music; he also composed other instantly recognisable title themes for The Prisoner, Steptoe and Son, Tales of the Unexpected etc.
However rather than "endless mucking about with these strange noise machines" every tone and swoop of the Doctor Who theme was crafted individually and painstakingly spliced together, by hand, note by note. Legend has it that the tape was laid out along a BBC corridor as it was made.
Goddamn this is some cool shit.
I really liked the Dr Who drama An Experiment With Space and Time a few nights ago, they had a lot of good lookalikes in it and there was a great scene of a 'Delia Derbyshire' lookalike tape spooling and running tape all over the studio wrapped around various objects. The theme tune was so fundamental to the show it was a real shame that they didn't take a few moments to introduce Delia to the cast in the screenplay and therefore to the public at large.
Pioneer
that is awesome. i'm a dr. who fan too.
Anos a frente de seu tempo...
delia d original doctor who version is the sickest synth sound. superb
thank you very much ... a thank you to whosoever led me here .. salute Delia Derbyshire _\
I've heard the 1980's versions of theme. They seemed to get more tinny as the years went on. The 1970s version I remember from the time I started watching it (around 1973-ish) I seem to remember as the one I like most.
She was a clever cookie, indeed.
No doubt.
The world is burning
happy birthday!! she communicated to me in the night of may.5 about her birth
Delia Derbyshire was just awarded her Doctorate posthumously- meaning that the theme to Doctor Who was composed by a female doctor! Perfect for Jodie Wittaker's 13th Doctor!!!
Dominic Schaeffer It was actually composed by Ron Grainer. Delia made an exceedingly good job of it of course.
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Endless mucking about with these strange noise machines will easily come up with weird spacey sounds. Playing them at high volume doesn't take a science degree either. It was Ron Grainer who composed the tune originally. An Australian guy, I think.
wwwwwwwoooooooowwwwwwww love it
Because the earliest prototypes of modular synthesizers didn't exist until the mid 60's; she was way ahead of her time.
she's taken my brain and scrambled it
yes she has
with sound
one Super-cool chic!
Love the UK slang 2:33 "Where boffins did avant-garde things with tape spools".
im in love
@bountykiller91 It's an Albis graphic equaliser.
I've seen a couple of Db'shire vids. There's sum commentator in those stiff accents reporters used back then calling her a genius. So we'd started over-using that word earlier than I'd thought. I still say there was a heap of trial and error involved. It brings to mind that part of the Q I episode where Fry asks "what words rhyme with Purple" and Davies buzzes in with...Aurple... Burple... Curple... Durple... Eurple...Furple...Gurple...Hurple. The effect DD got with the tune was still great tho.
That would be the slightly rearranged version known as "A New Beginning". Yes, that's the one I grew up with myself so it's the one I instintively think of when someone mentions Doctor Who. The only modern version that even comes close to the Derbyshire one in terms of construction and sophistication is the Peter Howell arrangement; even that sacrifices the mystery of the original for 80's gloss. Incidentally have you ever heard the 70s experimental arangement known as the Delaware version?
"I still say there was a heap of trial and error involved."
Absolutely; that's what experimentation's all about. What really annoyed me was back in 2005 when Doctor Who got 'rebooted'. Murray Gold, the overblown, overloud and overrated staff composer, lavished praise on the Derbyshire arrangement, calling it a true work of art which needed nothing else done to it, no embellishments or changes - then unveiled his own version which did precisely that. The latest version's even worse, just a noise.
genius
@straypixel ah ok!,you are very expert;) thank you friend!;)
Wobulator...
Great stuff, but oops - William Hartnell (not Hartness) at 5:18
@kloakovalimonada Delia Derbyshire - Love Without Sound
Women have had a greater invluence then even women themselves accept. Delia Derbyshire was, however, something else. A true musical genius.
If she thought synths were too far from homemade, I wonder what she'd think of now.
Thus giving birth to remixing.
(cont) The official Delia Derbyshire website tells how "Within a matter of months she had created her recording of Ron Grainer's Doctor Who theme, one of the most famous and instantly recognisable TV themes ever. On first hearing it Grainer was tickled pink: "Did I really write this?" he asked. "Most of it," replied Derbyshire."
Omg! The creater is sexier than the theme!
Music Synthesis before the synth.
Audio Honey
what the machine at 3:05 was?!? a point to point wave creator??
Decca turned down the Beatles AND Delia Derbyshire? How clueless!
Yeah you wish
6 people didnt like this...? SMH
why play synths when you can play wobbulator? especially since the synthesizer was way too big and way to expensive until at least the 1970s with the Moog...and even if she had them available, why limit yourself to that...you don't need a synthesizer to make cool sounds...in fact, you don't even need electronics but they can help...
minha língua é Poruguês do Brasil e pelo menos quero ver Vídeos Legendados para o Português do Brasil...
Bandwagon-jumping philistines according to Tristram Cary
Bit like Radio One and the NME during the 60s
Interesting.
Regardless, she didn't do charting music. She wasn't a band or an act, she was a studio musician. On a side note, while there's some rap people that are VERY good, their work has been automated to the point of taking seconds what once took Delia D. hours to do. People like Delia D. laid the groundwork for what was to come. You were never likely to hear Radiophonic Workshop music on the radio, but rap guys are plastered all over it.
what was the song around 2:50?
Does anybody know the name of the composition at 1:35?
She could play the piano - if you can play piano you can play anything with a keyboard. From what I can gather she didn't really like the early synths
@kloakovalimonada love without sound
@ekiroto
Well, she can't be in the R & R Hall of Fame because she wasn't a rock musician.
Did she do anything else in the field of music?
At about 2:00 when the commentary mentions Decca Records telling her that the studio was no place for a woman, I was thinking about how the Beatles were turned down by Decca because the A&R man thought that guitar groups were on the way out. What a dumbass! I would not doubt that the same man that turned down Delia was the same man that turned down the Beatles.
@grimes ?!
hymm's for robots
@wado1942 Delia has no need to be in the R & R hall off fame...... She is bigger than that!
What the fuck is that sound at 2:34??!!! I thought it was coming from my own brain!
oh my goodness. it was so strange. so cool
haunting sounds man, haunting sounds...
Derbyshire was a master in sounds..
erm. handmade.
Why doesn't Delia Derbyshire get more recognition for her contributions to electronic music? Is it maybe because of sexism?
Too big for the R & R hall of fame? Hall "off" fame, as your typo suggests might be closer to the truth.
Sexism wasn't much of an issue. Studio musicians didn't get credit, end of story.
lol you fucking wanker
@@tonegoober lol you fucking wanker
i doubt it was the same person as well, but there seems to have been some severe dumbfvcks employed there around that time.
the rock and roll hall of fame is such a joke. why does anyone take it seriously
Not a genius! Far above this!!!
Sad snowflakes say women are so - so oppressed and never had a change to invent avant-guard things?
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