An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics – Daphne Oram

Hardback

160 pages

Anomie Publishing

ISBN: 9781910221112

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. A significant part of her personal research was the invention of a machine that offered a new form of sound synthesis – the Oramics machine.

An Individual Note is a playful yet compelling manifesto for the dawn of electronic music and for our individual capacity to use, experience and enjoy it.