members might be interested in the following whoch I picked up from the radio
studies list. apologies for cross-posting to all those also on it.
anthony
Subject: BBC documentary on sound pioneer Daphne Oram
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>> Daphne Oram was one of the founders of the British sound alchemist
>> studio "BBC Radiophonic Workshop". This woman was truely amazing and
>> one of the first female pioneers in electronic music. Her oeuvre has
>> just recently been released on a very recommendable double CD.
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>> The BBC feature on her can be listened to in the Internet until ca.
>> 8.8.08
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/sundayfeature/pip/wxjgl/
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>> Sunday Feature
>> Wee Have Also Sound-Houses
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>> Sunday 3 August 2008 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
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>> Fifty years after 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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