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01. DAPHNE ORAM - Introduction
02. DAPHNE ORAM - Power Tools
03. DAPHNE ORAM - Bird of Parallax
04. DAPHNE ORAM - In a Jazz Style
05. DAPHNE ORAM - Purring Interlude
06. DAPHNE ORAM - Contrasts Esconic
07. DAPHNE ORAM - Lego Builds It
08. DAPHNE ORAM - Pompie Ballet (Excerpt)
09. DAPHNE ORAM - Intertel
10. DAPHNE ORAM - Adwick High School No.1
11. DAPHNE ORAM - Look At Oramics
12. DAPHNE ORAM - Rotolock
13. DAPHNE ORAM - Purple Dust
14. DAPHNE ORAM - High Speed Flight
15. DAPHNE ORAM - Studio Experiment No.1
16. DAPHNE ORAM - Four Aspects
17. DAPHNE ORAM - Kia Ora
18. DAPHNE ORAM - Dr. Faustus Suite
19. DAPHNE ORAM - Adwick High School No.2
20. DAPHNE ORAM - Tumblewash
21. DAPHNE ORAM - Studio Experiment No.2
22. DAPHNE ORAM - Snow
01. DAPHNE ORAM - Rockets in Ursa Major (Excerpt 1)
02. DAPHNE ORAM - Food Preservation
03. DAPHNE ORAM - Studio Experiment No.3
04. DAPHNE ORAM - Bala
05. DAPHNE ORAM - Episode Metallic
06. DAPHNE ORAM - Studio Experiment No.4
07. DAPHNE ORAM - Adwick High School No.3
08. DAPHNE ORAM - Fanfare of Graphs
09. DAPHNE ORAM - Studio Experiment No.5
10. DAPHNE ORAM - Brocilliande
11. DAPHNE ORAM - Mary Had a Little Lamb
12. DAPHNE ORAM - Incidental Music for Invasion (Excerpts)
13. DAPHNE ORAM - Costain Suite
14. DAPHNE ORAM - Rockets in Ursa Major (Excerpt 2)
15. DAPHNE ORAM - Passacaglia
16. DAPHNE ORAM - Missile Away
17. DAPHNE ORAM - Pulse Persephone
18. DAPHNE ORAM - Adwick High School No.4
19. DAPHNE ORAM - Nestea
20. DAPHNE ORAM - Rockets in Ursa Major (Excerpt 3)
21. DAPHNE ORAM - Conclusion
22. DAPHNE ORAM - Studio Jinks
ARTIST
TITLE
Oramics
FORMAT
2CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
PD 021CD PD 021CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
12/4/2012

2024 restock. Daphne Oram is best-known for the design of her Oramics system, and also for co-founding the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 1957, but until the release of this material, the only easily-available piece of music by her on CD was the 8-minute long "Four Aspects." There was also a 7" EP from 1962 on HMV, released as part of the Listen, Move and Dance series that was specifically designed to help children dance. Although the short pieces on this record are very basic, it could be argued that this is the first-ever electronic dance record! This is a survey of nearly all the major pieces that she produced since her departure from the BBC in January 1959 until her final tape piece in 1977. During this time, she worked independently in her home studio, and thanks to a grant from the Gulbenkian Foundation in 1962, she was able to pursue her interests. In Britain there were no state-funded studios other than the Radiophonic Workshop, which mainly existed at the behest of the drama studio and was not generally seen as a place to develop personal artistic ideas. There were also no university studios at this time, so it was necessary for British electronic composers to be self-funded. Throughout this period, she devoted her attention to developing her Oramics "drawn sound" system, which consisted of a large machine that enabled drawn patterns to be converted into sound. This system was eventually fully realized in the late '60s and several pieces here incorporate its use. The two and-a-half hours of music on this 2CD set covers the whole range of Oram's post-BBC output. All of the music is electronic with some occasional use of real instruments, especially small percussion and piano frame. There is also some use of musique concrète techniques. The works fall roughly into the following categories: works for TV and cinema advertising, film soundtracks, music for theater productions, installations and exhibitions as well as concert pieces and several studio experiments. There are also a few short pieces that resulted from an experimental music course given by Oram at a high school in Yorkshire in 1967.