Saturday 13 October 2012

Tape Alchemy


I just watched a documentary about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop called Alchemists of Sound which was quite good. It focussed mainly on the early tape era of the workshop, and had quite a few bits of footage I hadn't seen before. Here's one featuring Delia Derbyshire beat matching:

UPDATE: and here is a beautiful pice of electronic music made by John Baker from the early RW period, kind of reminds me of the krell meme music
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  1. Neil Fellowes13 October 2012 at 13:58

    Required viewing for anyone into electronic music.

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  2. zagoba13 October 2012 at 14:03

    very much, i'm going to try and put up some clips from this program because theres some cool footage of synths I've not seen before

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  3. Neil Fellowes13 October 2012 at 23:51

    Have you seen the EMS documentary "What The Future Sounded Like"?

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