DELIA DERBYSHIRE- "The Wizards Laboratory" (1972)

[josephzizys]

Oh wow, thankyou! for the upload, but more especially for the write up, now I have my work cut out for me :)

[withinthecube]

Thank you for posting this, I now have hours of research to do !!!

[audreyjeandreamer]

I am just blown away.

[SkeeterNYC]

Very cool. My faves are Yoko and Annette Peacock. What about Anne Clark? I guess she came later.

[Gmancrap]

Luke Vibert - Space Race 

[emanueljoab]

Better than David Guetta.

[RedVynil]

You forgot Laurie Anderson. Thanks for posting the picture of Wendy Carlos! I've never seen one!! I've only seen pictures of Walter.

[funknroll]

@RedVynil Check out the sequel video, "MALARIA! -"Your Turn To Run" (1982)": Laurie Anderson is in there with many more 80's disciples of these electronic pioneers.

[RedVynil]

@funknroll Cool & groovy!!  :-)

[lurholm]

Thanks for uploading this, and for the history behind it! I often wondered: were there no women to measure up to the likes of Bruce Haack and Dick Raaijmakers? I was aware of Louis and Bebe Barron, but not of these ladies.

[kidtronic]

In 1972 I was given two records by my family: switched on Bach and the Bley-Peacock synthesizer show. I'd been feeding doors and hendrix records into Dad's 4 speed sound on sound/reverb/echo grundig royale tape recorder. Annette Peacock's voice processing blew my tiny little mind. Don't forget that very old lp women of electronic music. And we don't have any of the women who worked in Paris or Milan's studios or the Russians from the 1930s, making sound writing on film. Great one!

[SuperXavier30]

Another Great Video!!!

[Laura041974]

Thank you. Many synth sites and forums give the impression that electronic music is male dominated with one upmanship on rare/expensive synths owned and sexism by some posters. BBC 4's Synth Britannia was no better; the women in it were from Human League saying the new drum machine bored them. Grrr! P.S. don't forget Laurie Anderson and Suzanne Ciani. See "Synthiefrau" on YT, she rocks!

[GaaraSama83]

This is really WOW. Soooo ... believing electronic music is a male domain is obsolete I think. Everyday a new lesson in life :) Hmm, when I think about it now, it´s very dumb not to assume there are a lot of women making electronic music, when humankind consists of about 50% of them.

[nargargole]

A real education for me; I only heard of Cynthia and her amazing Zerosciallator, which i must own one day! What i like about Radiophonics is that the analogue synthi is treated as a sound source in its own right; I spend weeks getting the synth to sound organic and well like a real instrument which kind of defeats the objective, especiall with Romplers, samplers and phyhsical modelling instruments, FM, etc. Still, i want a cello but a wierd cello, for example!

[mp3dmp3d]

this clearly influenced fidget house.

[feralpriest]

there is a documentary about DD "the delian mode"...anyone here heard of Daphne Oram btw? she set up the radiophonic workshop with Desmond Briscoe etc...her stuff is minimal as fuck...

[vividvectors]

Cool! I liked electronic music since I was kid...(70's) and it is really good to see some of the faces behind the music!

[mementocemento]

electro retor amazons

[llebnodnarb]

sounds like she was going through some pretty rough times

lol just kidding. Sounds sick

[Redhellmet]

Dudley Simpson did the the theme and incidental music to Blake's 7. Elizabeth Parker only did the sound effects for 2 of the 4 seasons. Actually there is one episode where Vila is playing chess and the music in that scene was by her.

[Oscar301]

from about 1.35 I got the sneaking feeling it was about to break into the Okey Cokey in some mad synth way!

[therealKINDLE]

PM me for some of her best.

[BillyIsATwat23]

I adore this stuff.

13 years ago, along with a dozen or so other records for 50p each, I got the original 1972 LP in a Manchester junk shop. I bought it thinking it might be a funk LP cos it was on KPM Records and frankly I wasn't impressed.

Then a couple of years later I saw the Silver Apples in concert and looking for similar stuff in my collection I made the connection musically and have been trying to collect all kinds of 50's-70's electronic music ever since.

[LizOMFGcookies]

I love this! It's like an orchestra of trippy and eccentric sounds~

[therealKINDLE]

Mind Boggling. This is a tribute to all those who made way for the future of sound. This track could be heard on Portishead's '3rd' Album!

All of these people deserve the world's respect. Especially Delia Derbyshire, & Walter Carlos.

[mysterymediacorp]

@therealKINDLE i'm a sound artist myself and i'm not sure who Carlos is, but I'm going to reseach him now ,thanks !

[sinisterfw]

Walter or better, Wendy Carlos since years and years, made the first or one of the first albums using Moog synths, playing J.S. Bach music. It was original , but also very musical. And later she was composer for Clockwork Orange. You'll find lots of stuff on her on the internet.

[therealKINDLE]

You're a sound artist? In that case I'm very glad to me you.

We are a rare kind, & if you want to share what we have found, then PM or E-mail me for a chin wag. Ever heard Delia's "Way Out" Track? It's more Amazing than words can detail. I litterally shiver all the way through it, it's such a Masterpiece.. After the obvious of course!

[dhollseed]

@therealKINDLE which song on Third uses it?

[therealKINDLE]

@dhollseed I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're refering to! Can you elaborate?

[dhollseed]

@therealKINDLE was it you who wrote that Portishead used some of this song on their third album (also called "Third")? i love that album but not sure where the delia-bit might be.

[therealKINDLE]

@dhollseed I Don't know about that. I Do know how ever that the Album was inspired almost entirely by Delia Derbyshire's work though. There's an interview on Alchemists of Sound with the man behind the Sound (Geoff Barrow) & he admits that he seems to gravitate towards Delia's Material more than any other. She's Inspired all my work thats for sure! But I'm just a novice. Nothing Like Portishead & BEAK>! Geoff Barrow's Studio contains a EMS VC3 & he uses it in their Chase the Tear Track. AMAZING!

[borgduck]

@therealKINDLE Not the one with the spooky little girl, I'll bet!

[POPACHELLI]

WILD, CRAZY SHIT!

[robisandor]

WoW,now thats some serious LSD trip,damn!!

[tojiroh]

Wow! Hell of a "History of Music" lesson here!

Nice of you to bring this up. The video's description is extensive as well... Will look into it!

Well Done!

[schmutzgreiffer]

Classic!

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

1:57 I like what happens there

what is the name of that song and where is more of it????

[lordoid]

Well it's all the same Song "The Wizards Laboratory" from her LP "Electrosonic".

It was rereleased in 2008. So you can buy it without problem.

That little Sequence or Sound Effect at 1:57 is created with a special Module inside a Synthesizer called "Sample and Hold". It creates this Random Notes when modulating an Oscillator. Often used in Films for illustrating that some computer or robot is heavy calculating :)

[lordoid]

Sry by "her" I mean of course DELIA DERBYSHIRE :)

[peglegegg]

Love her

[dancesongraves]

Delia did do the original Dr. Who theme.

[ozzymandi]

Was it Delia who did the orignal Dr Who theme?  Though she is not credited for it.

[MaxSynths]

The music was composed by someone else, Delia has been the first to "perform" it (and her version is the one I like the best)

[creationmachine]

What people know as "the theme" was from Delia. It was pretty much a complete deviation from the original tune written for piano.

[BackToTheBlues]

Ron Grainer composed it but Delia made it what it was. When she played him the tape of what she had created he has been qouted as saying "did I write that?"

[1flh81]

wow earley Kraftwork!

[chaindrive76]

Hey that is my download music

[sasarasa88]

Nice video. Shame that Suzanne Ciani did not make it to your list. She should definitely be recognized.

[beauwho]

darkdownhere[dot]com

[melitoce]

Please where can I find "Time Beat" and "Waltz In space" by Ray Cathode, thanks.

[martinbizarro]

(scribbles loads of names on envelope for future reference)

[Fieldy63]

Does anyone know where i can find video/audio of the Oramics synth?

[woodrailking]

Ann Southam is good, too.

[vieuxson]

genial

[imaratsfan]

Was it Deliah who did Dr Who?

[funknroll]

Yes; Ron Grainer wrote the melody, but Delia created the music in the sound lab with techniques that still amaze everyone.

[Ntone606]

She needs to come back from the afterlife and sign to Warp Records!

[Somaticae]

WoW! Sound like calabi yau space 30 years before

[borgduck]

Me likey!

[phurdricktv]

hahaha I like, I like :)

[TheRougeEyelash]

FANTASTIC WORK HERE

Everyone is beating me to it

[nrejack]

nice overview. I would also include Cosey Fanni Tutti. Although she didn't play electronics per se, Throbbing Gristle was a huge introduction to industrial machine sounds and electronics for many.

[synthesizerman]

Zero Oscillators at the end of the video are a new invention.

[funknroll]

It's in chronologicla order. The latter women started in the early 70's and continue expanding today. I put Cythia Webster with her current invention, the Zeroscilator, to connect them all to the Electronica of now.

[skodas]

it sounds like it was done on a ems vcs3

[Ramubay]

WOW!!!!! I love this. I knew about the Theremin because we have some old video of TV show from the fifties with someone playing one. My dad has Switched on Bach and Popcorn by Hot Butter and I've seen Forbidden Planet. Otherwise everything else is new to me. What an education into this stuff.

[SonicPrincess7]

hey Tym, this is amazing, thanks for posting

[cuircorps]

Electronica in the 1930ies?! GodDAMN, how do you FIND all this stuff? You are AMAZING funknroll! Rock ON!

[tarabusch]

FANTASTIC!

[mikkifly]

quality research mate

[wever]

wow! still surprised by your videos funknroll! once again, thanx for uploading them! :) (and for all the info!)

[SenhordoBonfim]

that was great

[gianlucax123]

Wow! Excellent :)

Kisses

[tyrbolo]

now that was really cool stuff.

[funknroll]

Check out the history of Electronica in these three videos:

-DELIA DERBYSHIRE- "The Wizards Laboratory" (1972)

-ALICE SHIELDS -"STUDY FOR VOICE AND TAPE" (1968)

-MALARIA! -"Your Turn To Run" (1982)

[nubient]

@funknroll dont forget laurie spiegel

[solidrock94]

That's nice ! Good idea !