{"title":"Delia Derbyshire","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"inventions-for-radio-rsd-2024","title":"Inventions for Radio - RSD 2024","description":"\u003cp\u003e\n                            \u003cstrong\u003eThis product is a Record Store Day exclusive title\u003c\/strong\u003e and is not available to pre-order.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n                            To buy in-store: 8am, 20\/04\/2024 (Record Store Day).\u003cbr\u003e\n                            To buy online: 8pm, 22\/04\/2024. (Subject to availability).\u003cbr\u003e\n                            Don’t forget: Click 'Notify Me' to be the first to know about its availability online. It also helps us to place accurate orders so that we can please as many of you as possible on the day.\u003cbr\u003e\n                            \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe BBC’s Third Programme aired four radio broadcasts between January 1964 and September 1965, collectively known as Inventions for Radio.\n They were ground-breaking in both form and content, conceived by playwright Barry Bermange and consisting of the voices of the general public answering questions on four themes,\n one for each programme: dreams, the existence of God, life after death and ageing. At a time when it was unheard of to give a media platform to anyone perceived as being of\n low socio-economic status, the broadcasts generated many complaints for the “rough” voices of its participants.\n \n Delia Derbyshire was assigned by the Radiophonic Workshop to edit and add electronic music\/ effects.\n The collaborative result is dreamlike and mesmerizing, an audial window to another era.\n For many years Derbyshire was not credited for her contribution, nor were the broadcasts available commercially, although they still managed to acquire something of a cult following.\n \n This boxset includes one CD for each broadcast and two further CDs of additional material.\n There is a 20-page booklet with extensive notes by Mark Ayres (Producer) and David Butler, (one of the lead researchers and\n curators of the Delia Derbyshire Archive and co-founder of Delia Derbyshire Day).\n The insight into Derbyshire’s archive, her music and its influences and her collaboration with Bermange is fascinating, providing context for\n these extraordinary pieces which have been the most elusive of Twentieth Century classics until now.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Silva Screen","offers":[{"title":"CDx6","offer_id":50441412608331,"sku":"2181228","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/delai_derbyshire_Inventions_For_Radio_a12e5571_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726979441"},{"product_id":"the-dreams","title":"The Dreams","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelia Derbyshire is one of the most innovative electronic musicians of the 20th Century. She is best known for her pioneering work for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and for composing the classic theme song for the original Doctor Who, believed to be the earliest \"electronic\" theme song in television history. A brilliant composer and one of the few women operating in the early era of electronic music, In the early '60s she collaborated with the British artist and playwright Barry Bermange for the BBC's Third Programme to produce four Inventions for Radio, a collage of people describing their dreams, set to a background of electronic sound. This is the first, simply titled Dreams, an attempt to represent, in sound, the sensation of dreaming. Derbyshire's electronic and musique concrete soundbed is the perfect underscore to the narration, simultaneously jarring, dissonant, and terrifying. An amazing piece of work from one of the legendary pioneers of electronic music. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fantome Phonographique","offers":[{"title":"Purple | LP","offer_id":50452194722123,"sku":"1064342","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/947cf4d6-8bd3-4461-b73a-dafdea63be3b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727144033"},{"product_id":"delian-mode-blue-veils","title":"Delian Mode \/ Blue Veils","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelia Derbyshire's work at the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop in the 60's was recognised initially for her realisation of the now iconic Doctor Who Theme which was written for the show by Ron Grainer. More recently though, she has been celebrated for her own compositions and experiments at what was then the cutting edge of electronic music. Here on 7\" vinyl for the first time are two of her pieces, one written for a TV documentary in 1967, \u003ci\u003eBlue Veils\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGolden Sands\u003c\/i\u003e, in which she used her own voice and a handy green BBC lampshade: \"I analysed the sound into all of its partials and frequencies, and took the 12 strongest, and reconstructed the sound on the workshop's famous 12 oscillators to give a whooshing sound. So the camels rode off into the sunset with my voice in their hooves and a green lampshade on their backs.\" On the A side is \u003ci\u003eThe Delian Mode\u003c\/i\u003e, which was used as incidental music during \u003ci\u003eThe Sky At Night\u003c\/i\u003e in 1969, finding critical acclaim in Gramophone Magazine's review of the album BBC Radiophonic Music (often known as The Pink Album), in September of the same year: \"Structures, Pot au Feu and Tomorrow's World are about equally good, yet Blue Veils and Delian Mode are probably the finest music here. It may be no accident that the latter is reminiscent of the beginning of Xenakis's Orient Occident for Delia Derbyshire follows the analytical approach of the more sustained electronic compositions. If her best pieces seem the most imaginative here—and they are—it is because she more fully explores the implications of her material.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Silva Screen","offers":[{"title":"Green | 7\"","offer_id":50481218912587,"sku":"1163578","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Red | 7\"","offer_id":50481219469643,"sku":"1088820","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/7dc4d2ca-c162-44da-8d93-c58a49005db5_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727535725"},{"product_id":"inventions-for-radio","title":"Inventions For Radio","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe BBC’s Third Programme aired four radio broadcasts between January 1964 and September 1965, collectively known as Inventions for Radio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey were ground-breaking in both form and content, conceived by playwright Barry Bermange and consisting of the voices of the general public answering questions on four themes, one for each programme: dreams, the existence of God, life after death and ageing. At a time when it was unheard of to give a media platform to anyone perceived as being of low socio-economic status, the broadcasts generated many complaints for the “rough” voices of its participants.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDelia Derbyshire was assigned by the Radiophonic Workshop to edit and add electronic music\/ effects. The collaborative result is dreamlike and mesmerizing, an audial window to another era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor many years Derbyshire was not credited for her contribution, nor were the broadcasts available commercially, although they still managed to acquire something of a cult following.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis boxset includes one LP for each broadcast and two further LPs of additional material. There is a 20-page booklet with extensive notes by Mark Ayres (Producer) and David Butler, (one of the lead researchers and curators of the Delia Derbyshire Archive and co-founder of Delia Derbyshire Day).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe insight into Derbyshire’s archive, her music and its influences and her collaboration with Bermange is fascinating, providing context for these extraordinary pieces which have been the most elusive of Twentieth Century classics until now.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Silva Screen","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":51245871169867,"sku":"2165287","price":199.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/image002_52e5e461_thumbnail_4096.png?v=1739228988"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/delia-derbyshire.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}