Exploring the UBU website, I came across a BBC documentary
about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. The
workshop was established in 1958 and served as a venue to create new sounds and
effects to enhance the television and radio experience, in a cheap way. The group used a method of recording
individual sounds, later cut and spliced into new segments of magnetic tape. Then
layered with other reels of sound, each with different tones or melodies. This experimentation turned into a new and
developing genre of music, which became the beginning of electronic music.
I chose this video because it broke down the history of
electronic music, as well as the group that revolutionized the way sound
effects were made. Within the BBC
documentary I also discovered other artists that I did more research on. Delia Derbyshire and John Baker stuck out to
me the most because of their unique sounds.
http://ubu.com/sound/derbyshire.html
- link to more of Delia Derbyshire’s music
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