Comments on: Delia Derbyshire: Reel-to-Reel Beat Matching Virtuosa

By: bobbi

bobbi — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:00:39 +0000

i was born in ‘67 and brought up on Delia’s music, from the Dr Who theme, to the incidental music in educational programs made for schools. The thing that always impressed upon me was the emotional charge in many of her pieces, even entirely electronic compositions like “that” theme managed to transport me to other places, (kraftwerk had a similar effect on me when i first heard them) beyond the initial beeps and whoops is a depth of soul that seems lost in a lot of today’s music, it’s as though every sound was carefully considered not for it’s musical merit, but for it’s atmospheric values… Consider the serenity that is Blue Veils, the bad acid that is White Noise, the impending adventure of that theme… And on top of all this, she was as cute as a button and a true geek, apart from the drink problems she’d have been the ideal woman (or at least, that’s what i’d be thinking if i weren’t already involved (damage limitation mode disengaged))…

for anyone interested, our tribute to Delia’s genius can be found on our myspace page here we pale in comparison to Delia, but hope to have done her memory justice and helped people “discover” her…

I’d urge all of you to google John Cavanagh’s interview with Delia, recorded shortly before she passed

bobbi iddod
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Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:48:36 +0000

[...] Reel-to-Reel DJing: Because no one can beat-match on reel-to-reels like BBC Radiophonic Workshop wizard Delia Derbyshire. [...]

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Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:09:13 +0000

[...] For more insanely talented and inspiring women in music as featured by BBC documentaries, see Delia Derbyshire and Alchemists of Sound, as discussed here on CDM last month. [...]

By: Jo Lima

Jo Lima — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:37:03 +0000

I’m a big fan of Isaac Isaiah’s electronic music. It reminds me of Delia’s compositions, but perhaps even more structured.

You can hear some of it here:

http://www.spectralmusic.com

By: Dee

Dee — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:11:27 +0000

Well im current doing music production and watched Radiophonic-Alchemists, was totally amazed! Delia, shes a genius! gave me a real eye opener.

Shes the Lisa lashes of her days, if she was still alive im sure her music production would be non short of sheer top class prefection!!

By: bpmf

bpmf — Mon, 07 May 2007 23:25:43 +0000

Delia be supa fly, she could tweek me all night long… wonky teeth and all, she rocks my world!
William G, props for the avi, this documentary is most cool. It has an interview with Maddalena Fagandini, which is niiice… sadly , although there’s a picture of her in passing, Daphne Oram is a bit slightled by this doc. Sad, she was radiophonic workshop original founding staff and an inventor to boot.

By: richard

richard — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:10:13 +0000

Is there anychance someone could send me a mpeg version of the alchemists of sound docu that i could play on my ipod? thanks! please email me if you can help! todayforever91@hotmail.com

By: William G

William G — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:32:40 +0000

You can download the Alchemists Of Sound documentary in all it’s full-resolution glory here:

http://fatbaron.com/alchemistsofsound.avi

Warning: 700MB file.

Peter: Please remove this link if it will get you into trouble!

By: Andrew Swihart

Andrew Swihart — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:14:40 +0000

Hell, I think Brian Wilson based his whole Pet Sounds album on this demonstration by Ms. Derbyshire.

By: alice

alice — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:17:22 +0000

Cool. That looped plucked string sound is similar to the opening of Portland Oregon by Loretta Lynn from Van Lear Rose.
Who else is mining her work¿