The BBC Radiophonic Workshop: Classic or Dud?

New Tristram Cary lp out on trunk.
http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=281201

"new"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jetzY-W78gg

love this, needs more rapping tho.

...who?

http://www.mimaroglumusicsales.com/artists/frederick+charles+judd.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00g15x3

Sat 14 Jul 2012 09:00 BBC Radio 4 Extra
Sat 14 Jul 2012 19:00 BBC Radio 4 Extra
(it's a repeat from 2008)

Richard Coles tells the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop's extraordinary story.

In 1958 an extraordinary musical laboratory opened at the BBC. It was called the Radiophonic Workshop and provided music and sound for a wealth of BBC programmes, from The Goons to Dr Who.

With contributions from Coldcut, Dick Mills and Mark Ayres, Richard Coles explores the achievements of the unit and presents a carefully chosen selection of programmes showcasing the department's work:

The Dreams (05/01/1964)
The Goons (02/02/1959)
Inferno Revisited (17/04/1983)
Relativity (1974)
Electric Tunesmiths (30/12/1971)
Bath Time (1976)

This is SUCH a tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ121_LBW0E

the Daphne Oram exhibit runs just a few more months at the Science Museum in London -

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/ORAMICS

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/62842000/jpg/_62842046_matthewherbert.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19568120

The BBC's Radiophonic Workshop, which created theme tunes and sound effects for programmes including Doctor Who and Blake's 7, is to reopen after 14 years.

Composer Matthew Herbert, known for his use of "found sounds", has been appointed creative director.

One of his first commissions is a "sonic memorial" to the BBC's Bush House building which, until recently, was the home of the World Service.

The original workshop was known for its pioneering use of electronic sounds.

Founded in 1958, it was best-known for creating the eerie swoosh of the Doctor Who theme tune, but its compositions were also used in numerous radio dramas, The Goon Show and The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

As well as music, the workshop created sound effects - from champagne corks popping to the distorted, strangulated voices of the Daleks.

While the first workshop was based in the BBC's Maida Vale studios, the new incarnation will live online, at The Space, a new digital arts service developed by the Arts Council and the BBC.

Herbert will lead "seven fellow cutting-edge collaborators" in making new sounds and music

REPLACE MURRAY GOLD WITH THE SOUND OF A DEAD PIG

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/62842000/jpg/_62842046_matthewherbert.jpg
I imagine this is what Kraftwerk's accountant looks like.

Anyone going to this:
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/events/talks/electronic_music.aspx ?

Just for fun:
http://webaudio.prototyping.bbc.co.uk/

haha, there's a konami code on the ring modulator that lets you use a live input.

http://www.factmag.com/2014/02/18/the-radiophonic-workshop-announce-substantial-uk-tour/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA6Fb0nuAYw

1/7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N1I_03wPEE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNaqvAH7R34

http://theradiophonicworkshop.co.uk/file/do_come_in.html

was going to go to the Glasgow gig this evening - get well soon Dr Mills

And why not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtgGkUuxglI

Student builds Daphne Oram’s unfinished ‘Mini-Oramics’

that's fantastic

wish I were in london for this one:

http://www.lcorchestra.co.uk/events/deepminimalism/

In June the LCO will open the Southbank Centre’s DEEP∞MINIMALISM festival with a world premiere of Daphe Oram’s groundbreaking work Still Point.

The piece is brought to life by the LCO and composer Shiva Feshareki, who performs on turntables an electronic manipulation of the recorded orchestra, in duet with the live orchestra. Oram’s ambitious work of 1949 predates the work of an entire generation of composers and artists in its radical use of live electronics.

Ugh, I just turned on BBC4 and this was on, why don't I pay more attention to the Proms (answer - 'cuz it's usually shite)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ebzcd4

It's very good.

The Proms usually throws up something worthwhile. Loved the Ravi Shankar / Philip Glass prom from 2017.

The songs of Scott Walker was a nice one last year, too

I just heard that David Cain passed away :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvAcUHSWEGw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WNLG7xZbeE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMZkRB1-5ek

Richard Yeoman-Clark just died as well.

"More sad news reaches us of the passing of another colleague, Richard Yeoman-Clark, who apparently left us on September 16th after a short illness. Richard spent seven years at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, starting in 1971. He (like Dick Mills) was more technician than composer but took to the EMS Synthi 100 like a duck to water, creating many memorable works such as 'Waltz Antipathy' and 'Mysterioso' – the latter created for the first season of Blake’s Seven, perhaps his greatest claim to fame, for which he created all the initial signature sounds before Elizabeth Parker took over part way through season two."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74qzbKBe5wA

that david cain lp is 50p for the download from trunk records website.

(they have a bunch of other radiophonic stuff of course, the tristram cary lp, the two john baker, the tomorrow people soundtrack, some delia things... website navigation not the best though)

Aired today, and up for download currently, a new radio feature about and interviewing Workshop members.

Live lockdown show using internet latency as a tape delay, coming up on November 22

Whoa!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjiSkR6di9k

Stumbled across Daphne Oram being featured on one of those Mr. Cholmondely-Warner style documentaries (from 1960) on Talking Pictures.