DAPHNE ORAM : Oramics [4LP [YoungAm001]] : noise music, experimental music, contemporary music, sound art, electronic music, improvisation, free jazz, avant-garde music, PARALLAX RECORDS online shop

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DAPHNE ORAM : Oramics

  • Format: 4LP [YoungAm001]
  • Shipping Weight: 0.68lbs
  • Label: Paradigm

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'2019 repress edition. Originally released in 2010. Deluxe clear four-LP edition, 155 minutes/eight sides of vinyl mastered and cut at Dubplates & Mastering and housed in a heavyweight, 300gm gatefold sleeve featuring rare archival photographs. This hugely influential, definitive collection from electronic music pioneer and founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Daphne Oram, has been out of print on vinyl since 2013 and is now thankfully available again via Modern Love side-label, Young Americans. Throughout her life, Oram was a wildly original musician, inventor and theorist who refused to bow to convention. While Delia Derbyshire had more or less become a household name, it was only when Clive Graham compiled Oramics for a CD release in 2007 that Daphne's legacy started to extend beyond the fringes. In the intervening years (aided by the work of the Daphne Oram Trust and Oram's archive at Goldsmith's in London) there have been countless articles, features, a play, an exhibition at the science museum and even a creative arts building and several record labels and arts awards named in Daphne's honor -- going some way to restore her place as a recognized pioneer of electronic music. To recap, Oram was the founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, a department she more or less single-handedly created in 1958 camping out at the BBC studios for nights on end splicing tapes and working with various modified machines to carefully arrange her abstract soundscapes. Eventually the BBC bent under her pressure and, in studio 13, created the soon-to-be-legendary Radiophonic Workshop -- with Oram its first director. Among her countless other achievements, Oram is also cited as the first woman to design and build an electronic musical instrument, one that worked around the "drawn-sound" technique whereby strips of 35mm film would be manipulated before being fed into her home-made "Oramics" machine which would convert and "read" the film into sound. She was also a prolific writer and lecturer on electronic music and studio techniques, developing concepts of spatial sound years before terms like "spatial sound" were even used. Despite her considerable and historic list of achievements, Oram's life and work remained largely unknown by the wider public for many years until Clive Graham compiled this set. Spanning 44 tracks, it demonstrates Oram's work as some of the most varied and groundbreaking electronic music ever made. As opposed to so much of the Radiophonic-era material that has surfaced over the last few decades, Oram's work is often characterized by a much more layered and introspective quality, offsetting playful interludes and commercial recordings with beautiful, immersive pieces like the breathtaking "Pulse Persephone" and "Bird of Parallax" -- highly atmospheric and experimental variants of musique concrete and tape music that still take our breath away 45 years later. It's impossible to over-emphasize the importance and influence of the material compiled on Oramics, a set that should be considered compulsory listening for anyone with even just a passing interest in electronic music.'




Tracklist
A1 Introduction 3:32
A2 Power Tools 0:40
A3 Bird Of Parallax 12:56
A4 In A Jazz Style 0:38
A5 Purring Interlude 0:42
B6 Contrasts Essconic 8:19
B7 Lego Builds It 0:53
B8 Pompie Ballet (Excerpt) 3:35
B9 Intertel 1:18
B10 Ardwick High School No. 1 0:46
B11 Look At Oramics 0:38
B12 Rotolock 1:27
C13 Purple Dust 6:42
C14 High Speed Flight 0:49
C15 Studio Experiment No. 1 1:48
C16 Four Aspects 8:03
C17 Kia Ora 0:46
D18 Dr Faustus Suite 9:35
D19 Ardwick High School No. 2 2:16
D20 Tumblewash 1:59
D21 Studio Experiment No. 2 0:30
D22 Snow 7:46
E23 Rockets In Ursa Major (Excerpt 1) 4:52
E24 Food Preservation 3:21
E25 Studio Experiment No. 3 1:07
E26 Bala 1:44
E27 Episode Metallic 5:30
E28 Studio Experiment No. 4 0:38
F29 Ardwick High School No. 3 1:34
F30 Fanfare Of Graphs 0:56
F31 Studio Experiment No. 5 1:14
F32 Brociliande 10:11
F33 Mary Had A Little Lamb 2:36
F34 Incidental Music For Invasion (Excerpts) 5:06
G35 Costain Suite 13:15
G36 Rockets In Ursa Major (Excerpt 2) 1:22
G37 Passacaglia 4:26
G38 Missile Away 2:07
H39 Pulse Persephone 4:01
H40 Ardwick High School No. 4 2:17
H41 Nestea 0:28
H42 Rockets In Ursa Major (Excerpt 3) 3:27
H43 Conclusion 0:11
H44 Studio Jinks 6:08

Credits
Design, Layout ? Radu Prepeleac
Lacquer Cut By [Vinyl Cut By] ? Lupo
Photography By [Photographs Taken By] ? Brian Worth, Ken Philip, Martin Cook

Notes
Recordings and photographs taken from the Daphne Oram collection, Golgsmiths, University of London.
Additional photographs c Edinburgh Evening News.
Vinyl cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin.
Special thanks to the trustees of The Daphne Oram Trust, registered charity number 1134910 and Clive Graham from Paradigm Discs for making this edition possible.
Released in a gatefold sleeve.
The tracks are numbered continuously over the sides.

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