Delia Derbyshire & Barry Bermage - Sea

Taken from 'Dreams:Inventions for Radio'
http://fuckyeahdeliaderbyshire.tumblr.com/page/2

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[therealKINDLE]

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.

[bazookajoe55]

delia derbyshire was a pioneer of the electronic music genre

[McChapmanWistallo]

And I thought, well it's no use trying to think I'm not, er, going to drown;

I AM going to drown!

[McChapmanWistallo]

...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

[emenveeuk]

@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.

[MrParlo90]

This must have been pure trip back then

[zaftra]

@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]

@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!

[zaftra]

Is this her voice?



[kyriakos]

i seem to be drowning...

[reticulianoverlord]

This is really fucking odd. I like it a lot.

[clumpft]

Every tape-loop, noise, sample artist, in the world needs to hear this.