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Recording a radio play in the Netherlands (1949), Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theater, or audio theater) is a dramatized, purely acoustic, broadcast on. With no visual component, radio depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story: 'It is auditory in the physical dimension but equally powerful as a visual force in the psychological dimension.' Radio drama achieved widespread popularity within a decade of its initial development in the 1920s.

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Delia Derbyshire Audiological Chronology Delia Derbyshire An audiological chronology If you care about the Audiological Chronology Thank You!:) Version 2.34,?? October 2013 () The is new!

Contents • • There is some new stuff here: • A, including detailed biographical info for her childhood •: a 1970 newspaper article, complete with photo. • A with John Cavanagh and Drew Mulholland • A on how he met Delia and on how the 'An Electric Storm' album was made • The Performing Right Society's records for works credited to and to, listing dozens of unknown pieces. • The, Winter 2001. Delia was born on the 5th of May 1937. ' I was always into the theory of sound even in the 6th form. The physics teacher refused to teach us acoustics but I studied it myself and did very well.

It was always a mixture of the mathematical side and music. Also, radio had been my love since childhood because I came from just a humble background with relatively few books and radio was my education. It was always my little ambition to get into the BBC. The only way into the workshop was to be a trainee studio manager. This is because the workshop was purely a service department for drama. The BBC made it quite clear that they didn't employ composers and we weren't supposed to be doing music.' -- Delia, in the, 24 Feb 2000 Delia joined the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 1962.

Delia's BBC Studio Undated 1962 1963 1964: 1. 1965 1966 1967 1968 album: 1. 1969 album: 1. (9 themes) 4. 1970 1971 1972 album: 1.

(rhythm only) 11. 1973 1975 2000 I have no date for the following pieces.

Please get in touch if you know more about any of them. (1:44) A version of Bach's 'Air on a G String, 'which she dismissed as 'rubbish', though it has a fair number of admirers.' Released on 10' vinyl 'Music from The BBC Radiophonic Workshop' by Rephlex as CAT147LP (2003) Released on vinyl 'BBC Radiophonic Music' by BBC Records as REC25M (1971 and 19 May 2003) and on CD as REC25MCD (26 November 2002) Her papers contain detailed notes and tape labels for the creation of sound for what appears to be a two-act play produced in collaboration with F. Chagrin and S. This may be Sandy Brown, composer of the score for 'Searching'.

Halo Custom Edition Map Creator Games on this page. (5:34) 'pretty much defies description and is all the better for it; you don't want to have to resort to mere words to describe such a perfect sound, utterly deserving the self-definitive title Delia so knowingly gave it.' -- It can be heard as the backing music to at about 19'30'. Released on 10' vinyl 'Music from The BBC Radiophonic Workshop' by Rephlex as CAT147LP (2003) Released on vinyl 'BBC Radiophonic Music' by BBC Records as REC25M (1971 and 19 May 2003) and on CD as REC25MCD (26 November 2002) Released on 'Doctor Who Volume 2: New Beginnings' Her papers contain two half-sheets of handwritten manuscript score for Music to Undress to, one with the theme and chords, the other with the bass accompaniment. Here, we provide these fragments recreated using: • typeset as a and • to listen to as a file. (0:24) Released on 10' vinyl 'Music from The BBC Radiophonic Workshop' by Rephlex as CAT147LP (2003) Included in CD 'BBC Radiophonic Music' by BBC Records as REC25MCD (26 November 2002) A note in her papers (DD073025) says that 1 minute 18 seconds of her music for 'Travelling in Winter' (TRW 7417) was renamed 'Dreaming' for issue as track 17 of the BBC record of sound effects 'Out Of This World'.

1962 (1962) (1:12) 'One of her earliest contributions - 'Time On Our Hands' - is a superb subversion of a phrase which would normally evoke (especially in the context of 1962) new-found affluence, spare time and leisure, now rendered alienated, distant and isolated.' -- In her papers, she writes 'TRW 4060 - The Future - 1987' and 'Don Haworth, Manchester, 20th August'. (Don Haworth is a british playwright and documentary maker). Released on 'BBC Radiophonic Workshop 21' by BBC Records & Tapes, REC354 (1979). (July 1962) Her papers include her score dated July 1962 for Science Serves the Arts, a science series for 6th formers broadcast 10.1.63 - 14.2.63.

-- (August 1962) (0:23) Her papers contain her score for A.S.& I., dated August 1962. From her notes, it appears to be an 'arabic' version of hers of a theme for a TV programme 'Science and Industry' for which a theme had already been created? We don't know if her version is based on their melody or not. It also gets called 'Arabic Science and History'. Released on 'BBC Radiophonic Workshop 21' by BBC Records & Tapes, REC354 (1979). 1963 (1963) (0:58) 'a devastatingly effective appropriation of the 1930s hit 'Get Out And Get Under'.'

-- The original song was by Maurice Abrahms. Released on 'BBC Radiophonic Workshop 21' by BBC Records & Tapes, REC354 (1979). (1963) Her papers contain a copy of a note to the Associated British Picture Corporation dated 25 April 1963: For creating the 'In a Monastery Garden' sequence of 'The Cracksman'. The instrument is an Eb safe-unlocking mechanism! Hope you like it Delia Derbyshire Although the 1963 Charlie Drake comedy film by ABPC contains a short sequence in which Drake and some prisoners escape briefly into the prison grounds, its music is orchestral and has nothing matching Delia's description or style. A short synthetic sound effect is used near the end of the film while Drake is using an electronic device to open a museum's safe; it consists of a sine wave of varying frequency followed by some feedback noise (at which Drake makes a pained expression). (April-May 1963) In her papers are her notes for a piece she calls 'F.

(TRW 5053), carried out 26th April to 6th May 1963 in collaboration with David Lyttle. (May 1963) Her papers include notes for 'Oliver Twist' in collaboration with playwright Richard Wortley. In her papers are her notes for the creation of a 'Radio Newsreel Signature Tune', with work to start 26th July 1963.

(August 1963) '[The Doctor Who theme is] the single most important piece of electronic music'. -- Adrian Utley of Portishead 'Her recording of Ron Grainer's Doctor Who theme, one of the most famous and instantly recognisable TV themes ever' and ranked as the 76th greatest song of the '60s. ' In those days people were so cynical about electronic music and so Doctor Who was my private delight.

It proved them all wrong.' -- Delia in 1993, according to ' The first producer of Doctor Who, Verity Lambert, she had in her mind Les Structures Sonores, this group from Paris. Their music sounded really electronic but in fact they were all acoustic instruments and because the Radiophonic Workshop was a below-the-line cost she came to the Radiophonic Workshop and the boss recommended Ron Grainer because he had done something called 'Giants of Steam'. Ron saw the visual titles, as usual something like a black and white negative, and he took the timings and went away and wrote the score.' ' On the score he'd written 'sweeps', 'swoops'. Beautiful words. 'wind cloud', 'wind bubble'.

So I got to work and put it together and when Ron heard the results, oh, he was tickled pink!' -- Delia, in the ' It was a magic experience because I couldn't see from the music how it was going to sound.' 'She used concrete sources and sine- and square-wave oscillators, tuning the results, filtering and treating, cutting so that the joins were seamless, combining sound on individual tape recorders, re-recording the results, and repeating the process, over and over again. When Grainer heard the result, his response was 'Did I really write that?' ' Most of it,' Delia replied.

-- In an official history of the first 25 years of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Delia tells how she created the Dr Who theme tune with a series of 'carefully timed handswoops' over oscillators. Dick Mills, who helped Delia create the piece, says: 'We started with the bass line. You know those 19-inch jack-bay panels? You could get blank panels too, to fill in between them. They were slightly flexible, so Delia found one that made a good musical twang and played it with her thumb.

We recorded it then vari-speeded up and down to different pitches, copied them across to another tape recorder, then made hundreds of measured tape edits to give it the rhythm.' And what was the main tune played on? 'It was just a load of oscillators -- signal generators -- that someone had connected to a little keyboard, one for each note.' But what about that distinctive portamento? 'Well, you just twiddled the frequency knob, of course -- how else?'

Eventually, after some pre-mixing, the elements of the entire composition existed on three separate reels of tape, which had to be run somehow together in sync. 'Crash-sync'ing the tape recorders was Delia's speciality,' says Dick. 'We had three big Phillips machines and she could get them all to run exactly together. She'd do: one, two, three, go! -- start all three machines, then tweak until they were exactly in sync, just like multitrack.

But with Doctor Who we had a bum note somewhere and couldn't find it! It wasn't that a note was out of tune -- there was just one little piece of tape too many, and it made the whole thing go out of sync. Eventually, after trying for ages, we completely unwound the three rolls of tape and ran them all side by side for miles -- all the way down the big, long corridor in Maida Vale. We compared all three, matching the edits, and eventually found the point where one tape got a bit longer. When we took that splice out it was back in sync, so we could mix it all down.' -- Dick Mills, ' in Sound On Sound magazine, April 2008. ' I did the Dr Who theme music mostly on the Jason valve oscillators.

Ron Grainer brought me the score. He expected to hire a band to play it, but when he heard what I had done electronically, he'd never imagined it would be so good. He offered me half of the royalties, but the BBC wouldn't allow it. I was just on an assistant studio manager's salary and that was it. And we got a free Radio Times.

The boss wouldn't let anybody have any sort of credit.' -- Delia, in By comparison, when Kara Blake wanted to include a sample of the Doctor Who theme in her Film Board of Canada-sponsored film, the BBC quoted her $1000 per second, which would have consumed her entire budget for the film. The version that has Delia's stamp of approval is the 1:30 version broadcast during the BBC Radio Scotland interview. ' I think every time a new producer came or a new director came they wanted to tart it up, the title music, and they wanted to put an extra two bars here, put some extra feedback on the high frequencies. They kept on tarting it up out of existence. I was really very shocked at what I had to do in the course of so-called duty.'

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