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daphne oram - oramics - paradigm - cd

Genre: Techno / Electro - Electronics

1. Introduction
2. Power Tools
3. Bird Of Parallax
4. In A Jazz Style
5. Purring Interlude
6. Contrasts Essconic
7. Lego Builds It
8. Pompie Ballet (Excerpt)
9. Intertel
10. Adwick High School No.1
11. Look At Oramics
12. Rotolock
13. Purple Dust
14. High Speed Flight
15. Studio Experiment No.1
16. Four Aspects
17. Kia Ora
18. Dr. Faustus Suite
19. Adwick High School No.2
20. Tumblewash
21. Studio Experiment No.2
22. Snow
23. Rockets In Ursa Major (Excerpt 1)
24. Food Preservation
25. Studio Experiment No.3
26. Bala
27. Episode Metallic
28. Studio Experiment No.4
29. Adwick High School No.3
30. Fanfare Of Graphs
31. Studio Experiment No.5
32. Brocilliande
33. Mary Had A Little Lamb
34. Incidental Music For Invasion (Excerpts)
35. Costain Suite
36. Rockets In Ursa Major (Excerpt 2)
37. Passacaglia
38. Missile Away
39. Pulse Persephone
40. Adwick High School No.4
41. Nestea
42. Rockets In Ursa Major (Excerpt 3)
43. Conclusion
44. Studio Jinks

BBC Radiophonic Workshop founder

"A lesser known but important contributor in the field of ‘drawn’ electronic music is British composer Daphne Oram who worked at the legendary BBC Radiophonic workshop in the late 1950’s. Oram dreamed of making a machine that directly translated graphical notation into sound and this dream came to fruitful realisation with her technique of Oramics. The set up ‘consisted of drawing onto a group of ten sprocketed synchronised strips of 35mm film which covered a series of photo-electric cells that in turn generated an electrical charge to control the sound frequency, timbre, amplitude and duration.’

Oramics, released on Paradigm Discs is a great entrée in Oram’s exotic experimental electronic compositions. The short track Power Tools is a head on collision between cute dinky electronic pop and industrial noise, or perhaps a cartoon interpretation of an offshoot Faust might have produced – had not Daphne arrived decades earlier. The beginning of Bird of Paradise predates the heuristic aesthetics of the uncompromisingly excellent Raster Noton label before sliding into an accomplished music concrete and then dropping the listener back into a computational meditation chamber."