Cool Picture

[rlainhart]

No idea who this is or where it came from - I just think it's funny.

http://www.otownmedia.com/technology_works.jpg

[Premetheus37]

Okay, I think I see some keys down there... somewhere...

~Premetheus

[dech2410]

that´s jordan´s great grandfather... Now we know where jordan got it from XD

[Grey Loki]

Nice!

Have any of you ever seen any pictures of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop? Sonic heaven!

[-=AnatomiC=-]

Looks like a photo from Fallout game rofl :biggrin: somewhere in the Vault 13 :cool:

[koma666]

Weird! But have you noticed hat its edited? The screen in the middle is cut and pasted into the picture!
Don't know why....

Where do you have it from Richard?

marc

[rlainhart]

I've since found out that it's a Photoshopped version of the studio shot from Delia Darbyshire's site, a studio called Unit Delta Plus (http://www.delia-derbyshire.org/unitdeltaplus.php). Unit Delta Plus was an early electronic music studio started by Peter Zinovieff, who later founded EMS, the company that produced the Synthi (http://www.ems-synthi.demon.co.uk/emsprods.html) line of synthesizers, including the famous VCS3 (www.vintagesynth.com/misc/vcs3.shtml).

I've never even seen a VCS3, but I had a chance to borrow and play a Synthi AKS (www.vintagesynth.com/misc/synthi.shtml) back around 1973. Was a great little synth that was.

I think the picture I posted is a promo for an electronic music radio show (http://www.216productions.com/Radio_MusiqueNonSuck.html).

[hephiroth]

wow, way to research that photo, richard!

[King_Ellesar]

I've since found out that it's a Photoshopped version of the studio shot from Delia Darbyshire's site, a studio called Unit Delta Plus (http://www.delia-derbyshire.org/unitdeltaplus.php)


wow. guys check out some of the mp3 samples on that site! right now i'm listening to the mp3 titled "Dreams". it is very trippy, kinda spooky, but i really like it, it's interesting. really creates a specific mood. check it out.

EDIT: yeah...i've listened to more samples and am really digging this stuff. anyone have recommendations for similar things to check out?

[Grey Loki]

I've never even seen a VCS3

I've seen, played and heard one (Ealing Film Studios has one that I have access to) - it's rather nice. It still had most of the original battleship-patching pins, too, which was even better.

EDIT: In case some of you weren't aware, Delia Derbyshire was one of the most influential of the radiophonic workshop engineers - she was responsible for a large majority of the TV themes created there, the most notable of which was the original Dr Who theme.

[rlainhart]

anyone have recommendations for similar things to check out?

I'm glad to hear that you're enjoying her work - she was somewhat underground for much of her career, but is now getting a little better known (although, sadly, now that she's passed on, it doesn't do her much good).

Her music sounds like a bridge between the earlier musique concrete styles and the later purely electronic mode. As such, there aren't many composers whose work sounds much like hers, but I think I can recommend some that hers reminds me of:

Tod Dockstader
Morton Subotnick
Oskar Sala
John Eaton (not his jazz works, but his Synket music. His "Prince Myshkin Suite" is particularly reminiscent of Derbyshire.)
Vladimir Ussachevsky
Otto Luening
Pauline Oliveros (her earlier work)
Pierre Henry
Pierre Schaeffer
Louis and Bebe Barron

That will certaily get you started - these composers were among the great pioneers of electronic music. You probably won't like much of it, but it's all worth listening to at least once, if only to open your ears.

Edit: by a happy coincidence, I just came across this link (http://substation.co.nz/blog/) with some MP3s of Oscar Sala's work on Hitchcock's "The Birds" - check them out.