Daphne Oram:Electronic Sound Patterns BBC Radiophonic

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Daphne Oram: Listen Move And Dance 3-- Electronic Sound Patterns (1962)


His Master's Voice 7EG 8762 United Kingdom 1962 7" 45rpm Vinyl: vg+ (few light scuffs)
Cover: vg+ Mega-rare ep of early electronic experiments by this co-founder of the legendary BBC Radiophonic Workshop in collaboration with Vera Gray, with rhythmic sequences of pure tones and noise blasts intended as a tool for dance educators. "These are for children to enjoy and may lead them into movement of a dancelike character or involve them in imaginative situations... By using audio generators, many tape recorders, filters, ring modulators and other electronic devices she built up the tone colours, pitched each of the notes separately, gave them duration and dynamics and finally spliced the notes together to obtain the required rhythms and sequences..." As part of the Listen Move And Dance series it shares an eerily similar title to Bruce Haack's Dance Sing And Listen electronic children's records released at just about exactly the same time in the US, though Oram's work is entirely instrumental and much more abstract than Haack's.

Oram helped found the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, which created sound effects and early electronic music for radio and tv, and developed Oramics, one of the earliest graphical interfaces for sound synthesis. She is credited with composing the first live electronic work in 1950, and worked with Desmond Briscoe, Delia Derbyshire, Georges Auric, and Thea Musgrave. Her work would influence Brian Eno, Hugh Davies, and Aphex Twin, and remains a much overlooked British parallel to pre-synthesizer early electronic/musique concrete pioneers like Vladimir Ussachevsky, Otto Luening, John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Bernard Parmegiani, Tod Dockstader, Herbert Eimert, Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry, Ilhan Mimaroglu, Henk Badings, Dick Raaijmakers, Rune Lindblad, Hugh Le Caine, etc.; she was among the first women to experiment with electronics, along with Pauline Oliveros, Bebe Baron, Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux, Ruth White, and Pril Smiley. Check out my other auctions this week for more avant garde/experimental, early electronic/electroacoustic, free jazz/improv, 20th century classical, microtonal, space age pop, audiophile, and artist records. Shipping - US shipping is 4.20 for 1-2 single records by Media Mail, then 0.50 for each additional (Priority Mail, other expedited shipping options, and insurance are all available on request). International shipping for 1 12" lp to Western Europe/UK/Scandinavia is 8.00 surface or 13.00 air; to Japan/Taiwan/Australia is 8.00 surface or 14.50 air; to Canada by air is 7.00; other international destinations vary. 7" and 10" records will cost less; heavy box sets will cost more. Combine multiple items to save on shipping. Note: I can now offer international buyers the super-cheap M-Bag bulk mail rate for orders of 8 or more lps; to most destinations this starts at 21.50 for surface mail or 33.50 for air for up to 17 lps, a huge per-record savings over standard rates for smaller parcels! Feel free to email with any shipping questions. Payment - I prefer Paypal (which allows for fastest possible shipment) and also accept money order (from US financial institutions only, including BidPay, US Postal, certified US bank check, etc., international bidders please take note!). If you are paying by Paypal and have won multiple items, please use a single Paypal payment. I will send an invoice email to all winners shortly after my auctions close, and another email after payment has been received to confirm item shipment. Packing - I pack professionally and with the utmost care drawn from years of experience trading vinyl internationally. I use new record mailers from Cameron Packaging (which I have determined are the best and most protective) reinforced with cardboard inserts and bubble wrap padding. All records are shipped with poly plastic sleeves. All packages are completely sealed with strong packing tape covering all openings. If you'd like your package done any differently, just let me know. Feel free to email me if you have any questions (need more info, want more pictures, etc.); you can use the 'ask seller a question' link above. My condition rating scale is -G+/-VG+/-EX+/-NM/M (only sealed records are M). Satisfaction guaranteed; if you have any problems with your order please contact me directly. Check out Ebay[track], my free realtime ebay auction tracker (currently in beta), which can refresh multiple auction statuses every second, alert you when bids are placed and when auctions end, let you place bids, and more. It's a useful tool for bidders, snipers, sellers, watchers... This item description is (c)opyright 2006 keymap records; please contact keymap records for permission before reproducing any text.