Yeah, my jaw dropped. I knew of the Oramics machine but I didn't know one just painted a waveform on a sheet of glass then popped it in like a piece of bread in a toaster and out comes the sound of the wave. Incredible. And that multi track tape recorder built using magnetised 35mm film. Utter genius.

​​@@JonnyMonday Absolutely! I was surprised to see that myself. In fact, I've always wondered how those weird sound effects from the 60's and 70's sci-fi movies were made and what kind of equipment was used to create them. I knew synthesizers played a role, but many of these sounds were very different and unusual compared to what you would hear straight from a synthesizer. Also all of that tape cutting and splicing looks very time consuming. I admire all of the hard work and dedication that was put into creating these amazing effects. You just don't hear these types of effects anymore these days. I guess this would be something harder to achieve today considering the fact tape machines are not as easy to come across today. Oh, and this is the first time I've ever seen an Oramics machine. I didn't know such a device even existed. WOW!!!!! Also the tape machine was an instrument, Wow!!! I guess I learn something new everyday!!!

@@kvmoore1 The stories about the Radiophonic Workshop never cease to amaze me. I keep trying to find out more because their creativity is always inspiring. Ben Burt (the Star Wars sound designer) shows how a lot of early electronic music was created in this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/msxzrduT3eDYmmw.html There's also someone called Hainbach on KZfaq who has lots of great videos about working with tape, test equipment and all sorts of strange technologies. I'm sure you'll get a lot out of watching them.

@@JonnyMonday Heinbach is great.

not only that, but she has the first digital filter on her rack just there too amazing slice of English genius all in a Kent oasthouse

It wasn’t digital… so an AAW

@@Instrumentals4Sale👉🏾 I guess you would pronounce that as: “AW” minus the “D” 😂😂😂

no, she didn't. got to go back further than that.

Surprenant de voir la qualité des enregistrements " vidéo " de cette époque, aussi bien conservée et restituée .

the beauty of physics

And the world still hasn't caught up.

Agreed

Ha. Sounds like something off The Day Today!

Shatners Bassoon!

@@imansfield Classic

I would've died if I had to explain the Shagbut, anyway here's the sackbut, kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oNaBlKp7uc6WnYk.html

Top pun there sir

I was at school in 2000's and did get taught stuff like this. Remember being shown an oscilloscope in science lessons.

Explore the channel a bit, I think I remember seeing an interview with her on here before...

Неправда! Она родилась в Степанакерте в Армении! И в двухлетнем возрасте её увезли в Англию!

Adding to your picture of Devizes and music. I was forced to attend Devizes School for 2 years back in 1972 and '73. Music twice a week or maybe just once was on the curriculum and something which was a bit of a surprise to me was that we were assigned to do musical analysis of a piece of work which a pupil brought in. What was suprising was the piece was Mr. Mike Oldfeild's Tubula Bells. Very inovative for the times and well ahead of a lot of music being written and preformed.

i knew it he's a time traveler

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Can’t be unseen lol

I specifically came here to post something about Conan 😅

It was still a monster back then. The reason it is called a Radiophonic Workshop is because if she called it music, she would get into confrontations with the BBC orchestra. The BBC even turned her down because they "had all the sounds they need" because of the orchestra. She got her studio 16 years after she joined the BBC and got some very old equipment to use. She composed sounds for Dr. No, but was not credited for her work. As she said: "They wanted my work, but didn't want me."

​@@stevenmuller7789 that's kind of the point, though, isn't it? That their music, their creativity, and the huge impact they had on the industry - all of that is largely forgotten or unknown, because they didn't fit the stereotype.

I didn’t know that this film existed?This look’s very interesting!Thank You for showing this to us!

LMAO 😂😂😂😂

Delia Derbyshire!!!!

Doctor Who first appeared on the BBC Television Service at 17:16:20 GMT on 23 November 1963; this was eighty seconds later than the scheduled programme time.

There are a few bits and bobs on Delia on KZfaq when i put her name in the search bar.😊

Society has changed so much since those days. Back in those days their was a form of togetherness which no longer exists since Margarat Thather as Education Minister removed Milk from the School childrens diet. The change had started some years before Thaterism. But some of her later policies were more nails in the coffin of the older more united society where people felt more together and more like a community rather than pigeons in pigeon holes to be milked of all they have for the benifit of a few. So began a culture where the Ursuers in power would loan people money with interest for their education. Universitys used to be free and students I guess felt almost as if they had a mutual goal full filling the wishes of their parants. All before what some people call the 'Me, me, me' generation. Where people are running about persueing their own objectives. So a sort of homely warmth has gone. My guess is I am more the latte generation who doesn't give a hoot at all for Torieism or Thatherism. I see total selfishness every day and it's not at all pleasant. But new generations are on the way full of more robotic AI and computerised functionality where the people have their heads focus almost entirly on a screen all day and most of the night. A sort of colder society where people walk past each other in the streets regularly for years on end and nether know any one. Yes friendships are still made and good times can still be had. Though something is lost, new will most likly be found.

This was during Mulligan and O'Hare's medieval experimental phase. Glad to find another like minded KZfaqr.

Interesting, given your comment, to hear John Baker say at 06:59 that "the idea of writing a 10 min piece without some sort of stimulous fills me with horror".

Having to spend tedious hours cutting and splicing magnetic tape together would probably melt anybody’s brain. No surprise they resorted to chemical help. This all became much easier with digital samplers.

@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Jeez, Butch Vig used to cut out individual tracks: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a7tpi62VyZqqnIE.html

Delia didn't die of alcoholism, it was cancer. She said she didn't 'suffer' from alcoholism, she enjoyed every moment of it.

I think this is an example of confirmation bias. Sure, lots of people in music and other arts die prematurely of substance addictions, but the vast majority don't. I worked in the music industry for several years and didn't see much of it. Also, there is some amount of people in pretty much every other profession that succumb to addiction as well. In fact, there is a higher rate of substance-addiction found in construction workers, doctors and nurses, lawyers, and several other professions than in musicians. Would you then say that people who tend to develop addictions to mind-altering substances are drawn to law or medicine or construction? Doesn't sound right, but it's more true than for the arts. Maybe it is high in the arts because there is less oversight from managers, bosses, and the like than in a typical job, but overall I don't think there is a significant relationship. It's just that these cases are the ones we hear about the most.

You should check out the guy who did the instrument's (David Cain) work 'The seasons' - wonderful early electronic compositions with some menacing poetry over the top. made for kids to dance to in primary schools of the 70s but youd never guess, its quite dark!

No, it was from a series about music called Workshop that was shown on BBC2 on Sundays usually at 8:15pm.

@@kamandi1362 aah ok that's interesting At least I got the channel right ...well it was never going to have been ITV immediately following On The Buse was it!😏

Read the description of the clip.

​@@CasinoWoyale Imagine adding comment just to tell someone to read the clip What a pathetic pendant Merry Christmas 🎅

I don't think it's those nice people at the BBC that we should blame for the horrors and stupidity of rave "music".

Her dialect is Queen's English. It was pretty much compulsory at the BBC

I think it says: '... you can get a nasty shock even when the mains is turned off'

You've pretty much got it. It says "BEWARE HIGH VOLTAGE You can get a nasty shock even when the mains are turned off" :) It packs a wallop even when it's turned off at the wall-plug, basically.

Now the lazy B'stards at the BBC just use the same old pizzicato sample or repetitive piano chords drenched in reverb behind every single programme, or a wall of Hollywood style sampled strings drowning out the dialogue, no talent whatsoever for a dumbed down short attention span audience. Back then they had to use their imagination and create interesting content which fed the mind.

Calling public broadcast an entertainment company hurts. xD

The drawn marks effectively block out light at precise moments as the film is played, stopping it reaching the photodiode. The photodiode converts any light it is given into electrical currents. So different drawn marks result in different currents. While this could then theoretically be used for pretty much anything, Oram of course used the currents to generate synthesised sound waves. It’s essentially a rudimentary form of sound-on-film, which found its way into cinemas during the 1970s. Others around the world, primarily in the USSR, USA and Germany, were doing similar things some time before, but Oram consolidated the various technologies into what some would call an early form of music sequencer. All in all very pioneering stuff.

@@gkeaoyrge I see what you mean, but wouldn't that require an array of diodes to scan across the t axis of the waveform in order to reproduce it as drawn? Sound on film, i thought, worked by matching the amplitude to the t axis of the film via the amount of light allowed through - not the waveform shape. The sound wave isn't actually drawn on the film in its f(t) representation, like in this video. i.e. it on a cinema film it 'looks' down along the f(t) axis rather than at the plane on which it is drawn. Hopefully that makes some sense :/

Just put a bright light at one end, and the light that leaks through will be dimmer the further the curve is away from it.

rewatching the video at 11:40, i'm guessing 'the equipment' is a TV video camera pointing up at the slide. i.e. it is raster scanning the drawn waveform and converting this to a amplitude vs time function via some impressive analogue circuitry, and sending the time signal to the oscilloscope and a loudspeaker. Makes sense actually, the BBC must obviously have been full of TV electronic engineers. Computer memory was stored in TV tubes in fact about ten years prior to this, so they could probably work wonders with processing a TV signal at that time.

@@tachikomakusanagi3744 Yeah, it’s an opaque line on transparent film, not the other way round as I thought.

Then I watch things like this and think about what happens with technology and society and the industries, and context for my lifetime

Like have you ever seen an old military veteran streaming old war movies all the time

Wendy Carlos. Her name is Wendy. Do not deadname her. That is transphobic.

@@aoifependry1029 Her NAME AT THE TIME was Walter. So piss off!

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