Daphne Oram documentary - Wee Have Also Sound-Houses
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- To mark the 50th anniversary in 2008 of the creation of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, the programme examines the life and legacy of one of the great pioneers of British electronic music - the Workshop's co-founder Daphne Oram.
As a child in the 1930s, Oram dreamed of a way to turn drawn shapes into sound, and she dedicated her life to realising that goal. Her Oramics machine anticipated the synthesiser by more than a decade, and with it she produced a number of internationally-performed works for the cinema, concert hall and theatre.
Daphne Oram was among the very first composers of electronic music in Britain and her legacy is the dominance of that soundworld in our culture today.
Introduced by Robert Moreby
Produced by Ian Chambers
TX BBC Radio 3, Sun 3 Aug 2008 21:45 
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Her independent experimentation and cultivation of sound in isolation to the commercial evolution of sound (synthesis) that was simultaneously occurring is what affects me. She was a forerunner of true expression, individual thought, will power and intelligence. Very inspiring!
The BBC's current eagerness to take full credit for the formation of The Radiophonic Workshop is quite ironic considering how determined they were to close it down while TRW (still) existed...
isn't that the course of everything? :)
but good things will always prevail!
But it was probably different people.
Wonderful sounds and an amazing history. Thanks for making this available. I found this documentary from a search for Delia Derbyshire who also worked at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. 1950s-1960s England produced some of the most amazingly odd electronic music.
I had no idea she wrote the music for The Innocents, perhaps THE most spooky film ever made.
I am facinated by this. I was a teanager in the 1960's. We didn't have one lesson about computers. I was interested in 'traditional' music. The theme for 'Doctor Who' was very interesting.
Great documentary about an amazing artist: thank you for sharing!
Amazing pioneer of electronica
Great piece.
James Bulley from the Department of Music at Goldsmiths will perform a previously undiscovered Daphne Oram composition at the BBC Proms on Monday 23 July 2018. James and fellow composer Shiva Feshareki will perform a world premiere of the score by the electronic music pioneer after discovering it in the Daphne Oram Archive at Goldsmith in 2016.
In reply to comments by securityrobot. The wobulator was called that because, as I understand it, it allowed what would be called an lfo, by using electromechanical processes to vary a feedback loop.. Thus it wasn't what an oscilator was at the time (usually a simple sine wave tone generator for calibration purposes)...this was before the synthesizers redefined what oscillator meant.
Basically they (the workshop not the Beeb) were at it early enough to call it something different.
Late to the table, but never mind. The term ‘wobbulator’, whilst mildly humorous by intent, wasn’t coined by the BBC. It was (is) a common piece of test equipment used in radio and television servicing and repair, and the name was universally recognised within the trade. It was basically a test oscillator- but with the added facility of using a separate, lower frequency to modulate the output between two set parameters- making it ‘wobble’ in fact. In most instances they would be used at rf frequencies, but obviously they could easily be repurposed to make interesting noises at audio frequencies, as they were at RW. The Workshop had a bank of them I believe, ultimately triggered from a small octave keyboard unit. So yes, it’s a real thing, and yes, it’s a real word, and no, it’s nothing to to with the Beeb.
Mother Ambient .
still love it!!
That quote at the beginning is from Francis Bacon's 'The New Atlantis' "Dude was turned on!" in the 17th Century.
What an inspiration!
Watch alchemists of sound dude, best documentary on the Radiophonics workshop ever.
Thank you so much for posting this!!!
seriously awesome! love the voices too.
love her.thanks
amazing video. imagine getting your hands on this equipment today. wouldnt have a clue what to do with it !!
thank you
thanks for this great up!
Highly Interesting. Domou Arigatou Gozaimasu
I am beginning to think that our understanding of the vibration of sound beyond the words we utter, as well as how our emotional energies vibrate, is the gateway to a higher understanding of how the universe works and how form part of it.
Beyond our standard music that provides stylistic expressions, I wonder whether these explorations in sound may help us glimpse at least a different and higher level of understanding.
+Greg Mathews Yes, same here!
Greg Mathews It’s a beautiful sentiment, and I would love for it to be true. I suspect, however, that it’s bollocks. But I wish it were true.
Genius pioneer
Thanks for uploading!
excellent
This is a good, 2008 prog.; however, I remember an earlier prog., also titled with the Bacon quote. Is it on YT somewhere?
Excellent doco. Pioneer underdog. But would she be allowed to cut it up in the Boiler Room or da Mixmag lab today?! Oramics noise queen. Thank-you :)
Damn right she would! She'd be greeted as a god by the hipsters.
David Park lol hipsters would snub her as not dressed in the proper attire or having the proper snottiness...or not having a proper beard...lol
I think I'll have a cup of tea, but only after I've dropped the bass.
This is a very good documentary. Timing for visual translation, however, is terrible.
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2:28 "she studied music AND electronics" . . . yes women are capable of doing both of these things, individually or TOGETHER.
Electronic music didn't previously exist....
that is the point.....
Plus mathematical structure to sound. Sampling sound on a physical tape.
@@MilesBellaselectronic sounds did by random Muzak concrete but to actually structure melodies. Delia Derbyshire did. Hence Dr Who original pilot theme
Why would someone dislike this? There's millions of videos on this site so fuck off and watch them.
In a perfect world, Mr. Scroew, a woman wouldn't need to remind people of her capabilities. In this world, I wouldn't advise her not to do so.
Scroew you!
i just found out that daphne was born in my home town of devizes according to wikipedia. i just wish that daphne's musical ability would rub off on me unfortunately i am as musical as an out of tune bassoon lol
did she and Delia Derbyshire work together then i guess?
They were both a part of BBC Radiophonic Workshop. They might have worked on few sounds together but were both independent musicians creating music in the same time of history.
***** Daphne was the pioneer!
wow! cool stuff.. trail blazing
I apologize. Replace the c with a k.
What non sense, not knowing the difference between Electronic music and Radiophonic Music. The two are totally different. Wobbulators? utter twaddle, no such thing. The BBC had a habit of calling everyday items by different names. No such thing as Chroma key at the BBC, they called it CSO and there are other examples.
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It's a shame the world is still run by men, and suppressing the potential of half the population. What a waste.
So why don’t women know about women. #womenfailwomen
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