Spectacular PHILIPS reel-to-reel broadcast tape-recorders!! Indestructible. A dreadful shame that PHILIPS has divested those respected product-divisions it was so widely known for, for so long. And incredible talents at the BBCs Radiophonic Workshop. Remarkable!
Delia ha cambiado mi forma de sentir y escuchar el sonido, la armonía de sus interpretaciones es asombrosa, es una experiencia inspiradora...saludos desde México!!! Muchas gracias por compartir!!!
She basically was Dr. Who a timeless being putting together sounds before anyone was ready. It’s amazing that she was able to find such a huge platform for her work as she did. A lot of brilliantly creative people are not able to be heard and enjoyed. I’m glad they released the recordings as well. But nowadays I’m sure people would just try to drop it into a song as a sample and not think about the work it took to create it.
I’ve just watched an episode of the BBC drama programme play for today and I watched the episode “o fat white woman” from 1971 and Delia and the BBC radiophonic workshop were credited for the music in that and I have to say the play is really brilliant in the episode and it has an overall element of spookiness too and her whole music score and cues to the drama are brilliant and I like how in the drama specifically her music just blends into the whole play and even when there’s scenes of background silence without her music coming through they were still just as spooky and still held a supernatural feel to the drama. I recommended the play for anyone to watch it’s really good. And Delia, Brian Hodgson and Dudley Simpson also scored the music for the legend of hell house horror film from 1973 and that’s a good film too.
Another couple of corrections. There were synthesizers made with vacuum tubes in the early 1950s. Also, tape splice mixes were around before folks at the BBC got onto it. Listen, e.g., to Cage's Williams Mix (1951-53). In fact, even earlier, in 1945, a Canadian engineer built an electronic sackbut, see en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_sackbut That the folks at BBC had no idea -- and apparently still don't -- about the actual history of electronic music is not surprising given how it regarded this experimentation. This is not to take anything away from Delia's amazing work. But, whomever made the documentary ought to read up on the history of synthesizers, electronic music and, especially, tape splice compositions before and after John Cage's work in the early 50s.
What an amazing and inspiring person Delia was! I'm going to ask my daughter to watch this as I think she'll find it incredibly empowering and motivational. So glad they honoured Delia's legacy with this documentary.
Of COURSE the commies at the BBC wouldn't give individuals get credit for their work. Mentioning Coventry, I was there a few weeks ago , I remember thinking "fk me, I didn't know the blitz was still going on.."
Classic pompous BBC hothouse flower. Didn't do anything at all ten seconds after leaving Auntie Beeb. Didn't embrace/understand electronic music, which was well underway before she fckd off.
