Delia Derbyshire "Sea"

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Delia Derbyshire "Sea"

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11 жыл бұрын

The image is an oil slick I discovered on the Farmington River in April. The spill was small. Based on the amount of oil, it looked like someone changed the oil in the car and dumped the waste . I can only think it was done deliberately. I decided to photograph the slick swirling around in a small eddy while waiting for the environmental people to arrive and do a clean up. My main job was to chase the wild ducks away to keep them from swimming into harm.
Th sound is a recording from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. It's one of a series called "Dreams", by Delia Derbyshire and Barry Bermage. Done in 1964,it has lost none of it's impact after 50 years. All of the pieces in the series are worth your time to search out. I"ve been told that one of the voices in this piece is Delia Derbyshire but I can't confirm that. I do know she was fascinated by the Titanic so perhaps it true.

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@NickSuda 3 жыл бұрын

I don't understand how Delia Derbyshire was consistently living 50 years into the future regardless of the style of the piece she was making. This thing is like 1964 dark ambient. It could easily be a Coil record if you sprinkled some BDSM vibes on top. Incredible.

@YunoOfficialMusic Жыл бұрын

"BDSM vibes" had me rolling🤣🤣

@noakchottpakine9504 4 жыл бұрын

56 years after this piece of art is still modern.

@hexonatapeloop 8 жыл бұрын

"To make it more difficult to find and enjoy her work, she records each performance onto pre-used Betamax cassettes and leaves them in charity shops labelled with the titles of unpopular ITV sitcoms in Dyno tape."

@sf5823 7 жыл бұрын

really? that's fascinating and very mysterious!

@hexonatapeloop 7 жыл бұрын

Sarah Forrest "the hipster", ladybird books. I do actually like this by the way.

@markelder5893 6 жыл бұрын

sounds like a surrealist monologue from the audiovisual artist "Chriddof", except presumably this actually happened

@bsid613 6 жыл бұрын

hmm

@feywerfolevado6286 4 жыл бұрын

I do this with cassette tapes and my own music. I leave them in thrift shops alongside other material. Makes it more interesting for people when they discover.

@amethystjade9331 4 жыл бұрын

I can confirm that one of those voices is Delia herself. A friend of mine, Yuzu, actually met her in 1999. She was only five, but still, she remembers it.

@shanewright2772 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, she's the first voice we hear and she's there at 2:45

@squiremuldoon5462 3 жыл бұрын

I can also confirm because ive seen other videos of her talking.

@shanewright2772 3 жыл бұрын

One of the great unheralded talents of post war music. Her problem was her best work was always obscured by the relative novelty piece that made her famous, the Dr Who theme.

@carsusboy 10 жыл бұрын

Is really nice I think that, if you listen with attention you lost the real sense the world. she was an incredible woman

@lizbourn4192 3 жыл бұрын

You are so right..........

@ematthews9443 7 жыл бұрын

I love this, I love how she uses repetition to represent coming up and going under again. It's like, is it a dream experience or is it a real life near death drowning experience or even an Lsd or halloucinagenic trip. The video compliments the sound perfectly. Very rich art that captures and shares a piece of the human experience. Timeless. looking forward to attending a Delia Darbyshire electronic workshop this Saturday.

@lizbourn4192 2 жыл бұрын

Hallucinogenic music for sure!!!!

@janetcraft 5 жыл бұрын

This work moves me. For ten minutes I was hypnotized by the music, video and poem.

@Seekthetruth3000 7 жыл бұрын

She was ahead of her time.

@gazbot9000 5 жыл бұрын

And so disregarded by her peers that she practically abandoned her career, dying much too young from alcoholism related issues :( "Sorry we don't employ highly qualified women sound engineers here.." Wasn't officially credited for her amazing work on the original Doctor Who theme until the 50th Anniversary, at which point she had been dead for about a decade. A true pioneer.

@mothratemporalradio517 3 жыл бұрын

@@gazbot9000 Rememberance for neglected genius 📯🌻

@skyreadersociety6183 3 жыл бұрын

totally

@lizbourn4192 4 жыл бұрын

First Delia Derbyshire record I bought (she did it in conjunction withVauhaus) was in 1969 - it’s probably my all time favourite vinyl. I’m on my third copy and it gets more and more expensive. It’s so far ahead of its time.............

@ciarananan 3 жыл бұрын

What's the name of this record?

@lizbourn4192 3 жыл бұрын

@@ciarananan An Electric Storm by White Noise. It’s an incredible record . The A and B sides are totally different to each other. I suggest that you are straight when you listen to the B side - it will blow your mind!!!!!!!!

@ciarananan 3 жыл бұрын

@@lizbourn4192 Wow thanks!

@lizbourn4192 3 жыл бұрын

@@ciarananan just btw, delis Derbyshire composed the original Dr. Who music!!!!

@jimprior180762 3 жыл бұрын

@@lizbourn4192 I've got An Electric Storm. I love the quirky weird tunes on A side and the ghostly and hellish tracks on B are truly incredibly evocative.

@LordZontar 3 жыл бұрын

This composition was used as part of the musical suite for the 1970 Doctor Who adventure "Inferno".

@fplspartans 3 жыл бұрын

"Unity is strength....?"

@draganad.8351 8 жыл бұрын

Text from edit of "Dreams" by Delia Derbyshire (9 minutes of a 45-minute radio work). I disappeared under... the sea And I would surface again And I would start to drown again And I would surface again Come up again And then I would go down into the water And I had the sensation that I was going to drown And it was frightening and suffocating My clothes were dragging me back It was all around me, this water, and I didn't like it. And I began to feel very frightened ...seemed to go down and down and down My clothes were dragging me back It was very dark and very deep The sea is very deep I seemed to be drowning I *am* going to drown! And I thought, well it's no use trying to think I'm not, er, going to drown; I *am* going to drown! And it was frightening and suffocating No reflection in the water I was in the water And it was a feeling as though the water was coming towards me And I began to feel very frightened And being that I can't swim and afraid of water It seemed a greater fear And then I would go down into the water and the sea seemed vast and there weren't many waves: it wasn't a stormy sea, but it was a frightening sea. And there were sort of bluey colours, bluey-greeny colours And it was all colours like the rainbow as if there was a light shining behind it And then I would shout and say "I won't do it, I won't do it" And I would surface again I saw a cloud of spray ... rising high up into the air and it was all colours like the rainbow as if there was a light shining behind it. I saw a cloud of spray And I had the sensation that I was going to drown And I would surface again and I would start to drown again And I would surface again, come up again Then I would go down into the water And I had this sensation that I was going to drown And it was frightening and suffocating. It was all around me, this water, and I didn't like it And I began to feel very frightened I must tell my mother! All I can remember is falling into the water It was very dark and falling down and down and down It was very dark and very deep and I seemed to be drowning I must tell my mother! My clothes were dragging me back The sea is very deep. I'd go into the sea and then I go right down to the bottom and there is some land there. The land at the bottom of the sea It's very still, it's flat. No reflection in the water. Lovely clear water The water looked to be rather, sort of, bluey And I didn't like it. And suddenly all this water became full of other people and other things all falling. Full of other people and other things all falling, all going downwards the same as I was and chairs and tables and things like this and all these people were all floating downwards through this water and chairs and tables and things like this And I put my arms up and tried to catch hold of them And I began to feel very frightened I was in the water and it was a feeling as though the water was coming towards me And being that I can't swim and afraid of water it seemed a greater fear. And as I sort of pushed back and I felt I was pushing back the water, so I felt the mud in my hands. And then I seemed to be clearing the mud which was really saturated with water. And as I pushed and pushed so I came across something and I was still pushing and I knew it was somebody. And I felt them. I could feel the shoulders then the face And then I could feel this tin hat. And as I pushed the hat one side, the helmet one side so I could see my youngest brother's face. And then I felt him, and I knew a little about first aid And I felt him, felt down the body And as I got to the hip he more or less shuddered And I could see by his face that he was in pain Even though he had the mud and stuff on it. I pushed the hat back and I thought to myself, I knew he's safe, he's alive. I must tell my mother. He just wasn't because he was dead. He looked like him but he just wasn't because he was dead. I just walked towards him and I just picked him up And he wasn't any more, and I could think he was my baby, He looked like him but he just wasn't because he was dead. I'd go into the sea and then I go right down to the bottom and there is some land there. I always die on the land. The land at the bottom of the sea.

@BcnViv 8 жыл бұрын

+dragana d. Thank you.!!!

@sf5823 7 жыл бұрын

Yes thank you so very much for the words!

@kleostratodetenedos689 7 жыл бұрын

It wasn't a stormy sea, but it was a frightening sea. And I had the sensation that I was going to drown...

@mothratemporalradio517 3 жыл бұрын

"He looked like him but he just wasn't because he was dead" - I've had that experience and i wouldn't wish it upon any other human soul. Are these real interviews?

@bobneumann9781 2 жыл бұрын

So Delia wrote the words? She was also a poet/novelist of sorts. Amazing what she has done.

@simonalamona345 7 жыл бұрын

sounds a lot like Coil's Astral Disaster. Of course, this was released more than 30 years prior. Incredible

@paulhwilliams 9 жыл бұрын

Great video to a mesmerising soundtrack

@-danR 3 жыл бұрын

Notes: "I"ve been told that one of the voices in this piece is Delia Derbyshire but I can't confirm that." Certainly Delia, and you can confirm it by watching the documentary "The Delian Mode - Delia Derbyshire documentary"

@rolfisdreamworld489 3 жыл бұрын

wonderful music and mystic Landscape...

@frankyymilkyy9001 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video, the description and for putting it all together with the composition.

@kloakovalimonada Жыл бұрын

My fav electronic piece of them all. Fantastic work with incredible atmosphere

@Taiyoki 8 жыл бұрын

Beautiful video, beautiful sounds

@mikegerrish 11 жыл бұрын

That's definitely Delia Derbyshire's voice at the beginning!

@gazbot9000 5 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@-danR 3 жыл бұрын

Yup. The soft, young-woman, voice. Distinctively Delia Google: "The Delian Mode - Delia Derbyshire documentary"

@matthollandsf 9 жыл бұрын

Incredible song. Incredible video. Thank you.

@vibemau8725 10 жыл бұрын

wundervolle Atmosphäre

@olivermatich2818 9 жыл бұрын

incredible video man, as a video artist myself I really appreciate it.

@dizzydays 8 жыл бұрын

this is insane

@bigbadbotnik8125 6 жыл бұрын

dizzy_days j'adore

@legalnoise7024 7 жыл бұрын

Fantastic...

@Ridley-Walker 2 жыл бұрын

excellent, sometimes it looks like a snow topped mountain range.

@martin-mi3cg 3 жыл бұрын

This reminds me a bit of Cosey fanni tutti/ throbbing gristle, of course probably years before even them.

@bigbadbotnik8125 6 жыл бұрын

Just awesome. Delia

@suburbiozero5319 6 жыл бұрын

beautiful!!!!!

@bcbudrecords 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome visuals for an awesome track !

@ismailsimsek332 3 жыл бұрын

Feeling like this is really about bipolar type 2, because after years of going up and down, up and down does not excite or fear. It just just dull. Nightmare all those years was for me, till i basically said the same thing the song conveys to myself , and starting from that year plus cold theraphy, i dont have my ups and downs scattered through the year, it is just dull. And its better.

@dragmio 6 жыл бұрын

Fantastic video!

@croiners4166 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@arnaudwarusfel9051 2 жыл бұрын

Cette musique expérimentale me fait voir une autre vision de ce monde . Je ressens à quel point on est petit face à l océan l espace

@centralsteeringcommiteeinc3132 7 жыл бұрын

first though after one second of audio and video: Tarkovsky, Solaris :)

@kleostratodetenedos689 7 жыл бұрын

It wasn't a stormy sea, but it was a frightening sea. And I had the sensation that I was going to drown...

@GordonHudson 2 жыл бұрын

That's Definitely her voice.

@datari 9 жыл бұрын

love the video.. thanks!

@xXBestCoolDudeXx 7 жыл бұрын

This, while high...holy shit....

@CharlieGeorge_ 3 жыл бұрын

Delia would be proud

@kozmikken 7 жыл бұрын

aha so thats where the Antediluvian Rocking Horse got their samples from!

@ajsmith4181 3 жыл бұрын

Aphex Twin way before Aphex Twin

@christophersommer3324 2 жыл бұрын

I also felt it expressed depressions weight pulling you down under, sucking the life out of you, but there is a fight to resurface. Listen and replace the lyric water with the word depression.

@LsbTv 8 жыл бұрын

fkkn überawesome! classic cult hit!

@balist0 9 жыл бұрын

Real shame that embedding has been disabled on this

@uwelucas8190 4 жыл бұрын

Music Experience 👍

@gullgrey 10 жыл бұрын

Lovely! From where did you obtain the music? I can only seem to find some pesky BBC TV-theme releases containing her music.

@IgneusBeats 3 жыл бұрын

nice

@A_New_Yorker_Lost_In_Florida 5 жыл бұрын

I must be a wussy but holy crap im scared

@vonannes20 3 жыл бұрын

2021! Taiwan

@lolah3838 6 жыл бұрын

I dream o f drowning. So this scares me.

@uwelucas8190 4 жыл бұрын

Remind me to Laurie Anderson "Big Science ", Delia was the idea?

@russelrw 5 жыл бұрын

Am I correc in assuming that a lot of these spoken word pieces have never been oficially released? I love them all so much

@davidhuggins16 9 ай бұрын

The complete Inventions for Radio series by Barry Bermange and Delia Derbyshire is now being officially released by Silva Screen in a remastered 6LP box set. I understand it will also be available on CD format as well.

@HB-cb3so 8 жыл бұрын

I really love these visuals... I read the description..but could you maybe elaborate on how they are done? :)

7 жыл бұрын

*IVO`s MAGIC WORLD* presents *MUSIC HISTORY GUIDE - FAMOUS BIRTHS* - *DELIA ANN DERBYSHIRE - 70th Anniversary her Birth, Today!!!* *(MaY 5th, 2017)*

@TheStockwell 6 жыл бұрын

Ivo, your "magic" and your research need improvement. 2017 was the 80th anniversary of her birth, not the 70th. Delia Derbyshire was was born in 1937, not 1947. :)

@mothratemporalradio517 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheStockwell teeheehee. Also, how interesting that she was a product of the 1930s.

@porscha901 4 жыл бұрын

Oscillators used . No synthesizer

@trespire 3 жыл бұрын

And physical cutting and pasting.

@mothratemporalradio517 3 жыл бұрын

@@trespire Tape, right? I've done that when someone from a radio station once showed me how in editing a work in the 90s (an interview to be aired). Very cumbersome and fiddly to say the absolute least...

@trespire 3 жыл бұрын

@@mothratemporalradio517 Yes, magnetic tape. Watched/listened to a short documentary about Delia here on U-tube. She liked to work long nights in the Radiophonic Workshop when no one was around, she layed out the spliced tape up and down a long corriodor. Very fiddly & labour intensive.