In 1958, she co-founded the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, a studio set up to create sound effects and electronic scores for radio ...

The Oramics machine, one of the most significant devices in the history of electronic music, will go on display at the Science Museum for the first time this summer. It is the creation of Daphne Oram, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A proper online discussion forum was recently introduced on Disquiet.com. The implementation is still in beta, but it seems to be functioning well. One of the things the forum will support is an ...

Daphne Oram, one of the subjects of the documentary "Sisters With Transistors." (The Daphne Oram Trust/Metrograph Pictures) “This is the story of women who hear music in their heads,” announces ...

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"Forget everything you've ever known about synthesizers. This machine has no piano keyboard or anything like that. It looks like the sort of thing that a mad inventor would make in his shed." That's ...

As ambient techno duo WALLS, Sam Willis and Alessio Natalizia have long explored the possibilities of "wild frequencies" as they put it. It's been a minute since their second album Coracle got us all ...

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