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Daphne Oram - an Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics
Daphne Oram
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Daphne Oram (1925-2003) was one of the central figures in the development of British experimental electronic music. Having declined a place at the Royal College of Music to become a music balancer at the BBC, she went on to become the co-founder and first director of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Oram left the BBC in 1959 to pursue commercial work in television, advertising, film and theatre, to make her own music for recording and performance, and to continue her personal research into sound technology - a passion she had had since her childhood in rural Wiltshire. Her home, a former ... Read more
Daphne Oram (1925-2003) was one of the central figures in the development of British experimental electronic music. Having declined a place at the Royal College of Music to become a music balancer at the BBC, she went on to become the co-founder and first director of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Oram left the BBC in 1959 to pursue commercial work in television, advertising, film and theatre, to make her own music for recording and performance, and to continue her personal research into sound technology - a passion she had had since her childhood in rural Wiltshire. Her home, a former ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Anomie Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Wakefield, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910221112
SKU
V9781910221112
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99-50
About Daphne Oram
Daphne Oram (1925-2003) was instrumental in the development of British experimental electronic music. Starting as a music balancer at the BBC, she later became co-founder and first director of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Oram left in 1959 to pursue commercial work, to make her own music and continue researching sound technology. In a former oasthouse in Kent she developed pioneering ... Read more
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