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Avant Garde ubu web

One of the coolest AV webs ever.... for geeks ONLY

Rare Lennon, Cage, Velvets, Pop Art, all Aspen 10 issues (for who knows..... these are so fucking cool...) and much much more the best archive site i've ever seen.

Quentin Crisp

We Dig It! hope you do too? lots of love from the Eastney Droners aka SunSetStrip C86

Old Lost German Footage (well not lost no more EH!)




And lets end the world with The Three

Daphne Oram

Daphne Oram was an unsung pioneer of British electronic music

"Daphne Oram might not be a name as familiar as, say Delia Derbyshire or Raymond Scott, but she is one of the unsung heroes of the early electronics movement, and even more interestingly was the founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop! Are you impressed yet? Well you should be, Daphne joined the BBC at a mere 17 years of age back in 1942 (turning down a place at the Royal Academy of Music) and from there on she badgered the company endlessly to start investing in electronic music. She was convinced of the potential of this new sound and was totally obsessed with pioneering it, to the point where she would camp out at the BBC studios for nights on end splicing tapes and working with various modified machines to create her abstract soundscapes. Eventually the BBC bent under her pressure and in studio 13 created the soon-to-be-legendary Radiophonic Workshop, with Daphne Oram as the director. Sadly this involvement was to be short lived as Daphne decided she was unhappy to be writing music simply to be heard in the background of some science fiction television show or another, and left the company to start her own studio and pioneer her own musical instrument. Named the Oramics system, this incredible device allowed her to 'draw' sound, and had the synthesizer's oscillators, pitch, volume, vibrato and more controlled by hand drawn slides. It was an incredibly original way to think about sound creation, and her work was totally pioneering in the genre - allowing her to make sounds and compositions totally unlike anything heard before. Daphne continued to experiment with music using the Oramics system and then an Apple II computer until she had a stroke in 1994, and was up until that time totally dedicated to experimental electronic music. Her work is here presented across two discs and shows many of her early compositions for film and television and also some later work (post 1966) which made use of the Oramics system. Having only managed to hear a very small amount of Daphne's work before (notably the track 'Four Aspects' on Sub Rosa's influential 'An Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music #2') it is an absolute revelation hearing this collection. Each track shows just how important she was on the development of music we know and love so dearly - Delia Derbyshire for instance was a devoted follower of hers, and is quoted as saying she was "one of the most important people in the history of electronic music". This sentiment is clearly evident as we are taken through a journey of devastatingly complex electronic and concrete music, music that would give any number of the more well-known composers a run for their money. Possibly one of the finest collections of early electronic music we've ever had through our doors, this is a stunning presentation of a truly remarkable woman's work - I think we've found our holy grail. Unmissable."

Friday 27 June 2008

The life and work of Daphne Oram (Symposium)12.00pm
Free, Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, London

This symposium considers her place in the history of electronic music, as well as exploring in academic depth, ideas and tools for graphic sound synthesis through the drawn sound system she invented called Oramics. Speakers include Maddalena Fagandini and Jo Hutton, Professor Peter Manning, Dr Mick Grierson and Rob Mullender.

Oramics: The Life and Works of Daphne Oram (Concert) 7.30pm

£3/£6, Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, London

This concert features unheard music by Daphne Oram, a pioneering British composer and electronic musician who died in 2003. Much of the music heard in this performance has been uncovered while digitising her tapes at Goldsmith’s College, London University. Other works, like Sardonica, written with Ivor Walsworth for piano and tape, receive their first performances in decades, and special guest artists including Andrea Parker, creator of warm electro music, remixing Daphne’s soundworld for a new generation.

Oramics in the Front Room (Late Night Gig) 10.00pm

Free, The Front Room (Queen Elizabeth Hall), South Bank Centre, London

A free gig featuring modern female AV pioneer

People Like Us (Vicki Bennett) and Theremin exponent Ninki V.

Click her name at top of post to hear some music !!

Early Kraftwerk (and Neu!) Rare Footage

Click on MENU in the YouTube screens to see Faust, Neu!, Guru Guru and more Kraftwerk Footage.

the Jesus and Mary Chain riot

Delia Derbyshire : Electronic Music Pioneer

Delia believed that the way the ear / brain perceives sound should have dominance over any basic mathematical theory, but as with most things in life it is important to know the rules in order to advantageously bend or break them.

Shortly before Delia died, she wrote the following: "Working with people like Sonic Boom on pure electronic music has re-invigorated me. He is from a later generation but has always had an affinity with the music of the 60s. One of our first points of contact - the visionary work of Peter Zinovieff, has touched us both, and has been an inspiration. Now without the constraints of doing 'applied music', my mind can fly free and pick-up where I left off."

Brighton Expo 4th - 6th July 2008

Expo Brighton
4-6 July 2008
The UK’s largest weekend of free sound art and experimental music.
Three days of people enjoying, creating, playing, sharing, discovering, participating and listening to sonic art.
With some of the leading figures in UK sonic art playing things you’ve never heard before (and maybe never will again).
In venues and situations across Brighton.
There will be a wiki-conference, a radiophonic intervention in the Royal Pavillion Gardens, installations and performances, shopping centre public art, club nights and film screenings across the streets, buildings and air waves of Brighton.