BB LUCKY DIP #143
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Today's topic: ELECTRONIC WOMEN
Stephen's Quote of The Day: "My most beautiful sound at the time was a tatty green BBC lampshade,” she recalled. “It was the wrong colour, but it had a beautiful ringing sound to it. I hit the lampshade, recorded that, faded it up into the ringing part without the percussive start…. I analysed the sound into all of its partials and frequencies, and took the 12 strongest, and reconstructed the sound on the workshop’s famous 12 oscillators" ...Delia Derbyshire.
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This is a brilliant collection of albums!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Tribe.
DeleteThis needs to be heard.
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A brilliant idea this one, with great sounds.
ReplyDeleteDelia Derbyshire is one of my favourites.
“My most beautiful sound at the time was a tatty green BBC lampshade,” she recalled.
“It was the wrong colour, but it had a beautiful ringing sound to it. I hit the lampshade, recorded that, faded it up into the ringing part without the percussive start…..
I analysed the sound into all of its partials and frequencies, and took the 12 strongest, and reconstructed the sound on the workshop’s famous 12 oscillators…”
Delia Derbyshire
She was at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
The Doctor Who theme (credited as written by Ron Grainer an Australian composer) stated as “realised” by Delia Derbyshire. Created in 1963, it was one of the first electronic music signature tunes for television, and is still being used in differing arrangements today!
A very interesting life story of Delia can be found on the WWW and she has been a major influence.
Cheers
Stephen
Thank you, Stephen.
DeleteI am glad you shared these comments. People should check her and the others' stories out.
Cheers.