@zaftra No it's not Delia Derbyshire's voice. Barry Bermange collected these voices from people describing their nightmares (see the link in the description of this video). For me it's absolutely amazing that this was produced in 1964!
@HaloSvevo Thanks for that. There's a clip 'Reel-to-Reel Beat Matching Virtuosa' on youtube here, which is a clip of the actually woman herself describing how she makes her music. Her voice is remarkably similar to the young woman speaking. All that received pronunciation!
@HaloSvevo Hmm....nah actually, I'd have to disagree myself. Yes, Barry may have collected the majority voices but they are reciting prepared text. It most certainly sounds like Delia speaking the first few lines of text & she reappears at several other junctures: 2min16, 2m45, 3m07, 3m31,3m41. There's surely enough interviews footage on the net to recognise her vocal pattern. One example: her "O" vowels are like AAH's, so the word "drown" soundlike "draahn" (middle class). I hear other nuances.
This is from the first of the Inventions for Radio from 1964. The title of the overall piece is Dreams (or sometimes In Dreams). Incidentally I have the first two of the inventions (Dreams and AMor Dei) but not the third and fourth. Can anyone help? (!)
I found the entirety of this program on a political blog, "Crooks and Liars" and I'm so glad I did find it....it's amazingly done, so very evocative of the dream state, and the ambient sounds just add so much to it.
And I thought, well it's no use trying to think I'm not, er, going to drown;
I AM going to drown!
McChapmanWistallo 1 month ago
...seemed to go down and down and down My clothes were dragging me back
It was very dark and very deep The sea is very deep
I seemed to be drowning
McChapmanWistallo 1 month ago
This must have been pure trip back then
MrParlo90 3 months ago
Is this her voice?
zaftra 8 months ago
@zaftra No it's not Delia Derbyshire's voice. Barry Bermange collected these voices from people describing their nightmares (see the link in the description of this video). For me it's absolutely amazing that this was produced in 1964!
HaloSvevo 8 months ago
@HaloSvevo Thanks for that. There's a clip 'Reel-to-Reel Beat Matching Virtuosa' on youtube here, which is a clip of the actually woman herself describing how she makes her music. Her voice is remarkably similar to the young woman speaking. All that received pronunciation!
zaftra 8 months ago
@HaloSvevo Hmm....nah actually, I'd have to disagree myself. Yes, Barry may have collected the majority voices but they are reciting prepared text. It most certainly sounds like Delia speaking the first few lines of text & she reappears at several other junctures: 2min16, 2m45, 3m07, 3m31,3m41. There's surely enough interviews footage on the net to recognise her vocal pattern. One example: her "O" vowels are like AAH's, so the word "drown" soundlike "draahn" (middle class). I hear other nuances.
emenveeuk 2 months ago
i seem to be drowning...
kyriakos 9 months ago
This is really fucking odd. I like it a lot.
reticulianoverlord 10 months ago
Every tape-loop, noise, sample artist, in the world needs to hear this.
clumpft 1 year ago
This is one of the darkest thigns i have ever heard
LucaBoulders 1 year ago 2
surreal. beautiful. eerie. euphoric. creepy. speechless. timeless. dark.
otomwaho 1 year ago
..and I thought to myself I knew he was safe, he's alive, I must tell my mother...
...he just wasn't, because he was dead.
Sampling never got better! Faintly reminiscent of Little Fluffy Clouds, though, of course, much darker.
allanfmarsden 1 year ago
This is from the first of the Inventions for Radio from 1964. The title of the overall piece is Dreams (or sometimes In Dreams). Incidentally I have the first two of the inventions (Dreams and AMor Dei) but not the third and fourth. Can anyone help? (!)
bountybar 1 year ago
I found the entirety of this program on a political blog, "Crooks and Liars" and I'm so glad I did find it....it's amazingly done, so very evocative of the dream state, and the ambient sounds just add so much to it.
KenoshiAkai 1 year ago
Way ahead of it's time. Some believe that this was inspired by Delia's obsession with the Titanic.
Anyhow, this track in it's full length goes on for nye on 40 Mintues. That was digital calculation standar to get it to align on Tape. Amazing.
therealKINDLE 2 years ago 7
delia derbyshire was a pioneer of the electronic music genre
bazookajoe55 2 years ago 5
@bazookajoe55 I couldn't have said it better myself!
ElectronicaHistory 1 year ago
brilliant.
tylerkershaw 2 years ago 4