Well, well. Sure, I could pop up another re-edit but I've encountered so many fantastic excursions into sound recently that I am now compelled to share them. Re-edits will be here again but for now lets check the pioneering work of Daphne Oram.
Born in 1925 she studied music in Paris and London eventually exploring fledgling electronic music, programming and composition for the BBC and was regularly commissioned to compose and perform using oscillators, tape machines and home made filters for, amongst others, Sam Beckett's 1957 production of "All That Fall".
As demand for electronic music grew she was eventually asked by the BBC in 1958 to establish the groundbreaking BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Throughout her career she lectured on electronic music and studio techniques and developed her very own Oramics drawn sounds technique. This allowed a composer to be able to draw an "alphabet of symbols", feed them through a machine that would, in turn, produce the relevant sounds on magnetic tape. Doctor Who anyone?
Pretty mind blowing stuff and if you want to know more just follow the links here.
For now just listen to her work on the 1963 film "Snow" combining field recordings of trains, good old fashioned razor and tape edits, rock & roll and her own home made filters. Or if you want to check out her Oramics machine in action see the film below that. Simply stunning!!
Oramics from Nick Street on Vimeo.
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