Delia Derbyshire - Sculptress of Sound documentary 1/7

The broadcaster and Doctor Who fan Matthew Sweet travels to The University of Manchester - home of Delia Derbyshire's private collection of audio recordings - to learn more about the wider career and working methods of the woman who realised Ron Grainer's original theme to Doctor Who.

Further details from http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rl2ky

This is part 1 of 7; the programme is divided into chunks to fit YouTube's 10 minute length limit.

Photographs are BBC/public domain. Used, by permission, from Ray White's 'Radiophonic Gallery', http://whitefiles.org/rwg/.

• Category

  Music

[bountykiller91]

what the machine at 3:05 was?!? a point to point wave creator??

[straypixel]

It's an Albis graphic equaliser.

[ekiroto]

Yeah allot is missing from the Rock and Roll hall of fame but the whole Rock and Roll establishment is contrived and pretentious so I wouldn't expect them to reckognise someone as genius as Delia Derbyshire.

[MrLien2U]

Delia has no need to be in the R & R hall off fame...... She is bigger than that!

[Kim B]

She is my hero. I am a math major.... And know music. I love her

[Glen Rea]

She could play the piano - if you can play piano you can play anything with a keyboard. From what I can gather she didn't really like the early synths

[divinedgar]

i doubt it was the same person as well, but there seems to have been some severe dumbfvcks employed there around that time.

[VioletDeliriums]

why play synths when you can play wobbulator? especially since the synthesizer was way too big and way to expensive until at least the 1970s with the Moog...and even if she had them available, why limit yourself to that...you don't need a synthesizer to make cool sounds...in fact, you don't even need electronics but they can help...

[Lazer Razor]

Why didn't she learn to play synth?

[Lazer Razor]

Thus giving birth to remixing.

[DoctorWho7949]

Yeah you wish

[Trey Seeley]

Omg! The creater is sexier than the theme!

[Johan Strandberg]

Thank you so much for putting this series of Delia on to YouTube. I now have a name to put on the hundreds of snippets of sound and music I have heard over the years. It is amazing how many individual sounds I recognize right away in this series, and I grew up in Sweden! I didin't even listen to BBC radio at the time. Yet I recognize the soundscapes from movies, TV shows, and the occasional BBC radio shows I have heard since then.

[iLikeTheUDK]

Music Synthesis before the synth.