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For most of human history, musical instruments were strictly mechanical devices. The musician either plucked something, blew into or across something, or banged on something to produce the sounds the ...

Get acquainted with the work of pioneering composer and electronic musician Daphne Oram, co-founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Daphne Oram (1925–2003) was one of Britain’s most important early electronic composers. Oram trained first as a pianist and composer and turned down a place at the Royal College of Music to work at ...

Reinforcing the melancholy aspect of her work, this dark 44-track anthology of work by pioneering British electronic composer Daphne Oram draws from over 400 tapes she left behind after her death in ...

Blood of the Young & Tron Theatre present the world premiere of DAPHNE ORAM'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF SOUND, running Tuesday 9 - Saturday 13 May 2017 (Press Opening on Wednesday 10 May). Focusing on the ...

Daphne Oram, cofounder in 1958 of the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop and namesake of Daphne: A Women's Movement in Dance Music Credit: Paul Downey / Creative Commons In 1957 the BBC commissioned its ...

Although the BBC Radiophonic Workshop is not very well-known, even in a lot of electronic music circles, the work they did was extraordinary, and known or unknown, the Workshop has had an enormous ...

Ahead of its debut at Hamburg's Paripar Festival, sound artist and instrument builder Pit Przygodda and choreographer Yôko Higashi speak to Jakub Knera about a new project inspired by Daphne Oram's ...