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Saturday March 17th, 2018 with TEKNOBRAT
Three True Heroes & Pioneers Of Electronic Music - A Sonic Journey & Exploration Of The Minds And Sounds Of -DAPHNE ORAM - HUGH LE CAINE - DELIA DERBYSHIRE

DAPHNE ORAM (31 December 1925 – 5 January 2003) was a British composer and electronic musician. Oram was one of the first British composers to produce electronic sound and was a pioneer of "musique concrete. She was the creator of the Oramics technique for creating electronic sounds, co-founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and a central figure in the evolution of electronic music. Besides being a musical innovator, she was the first woman to direct an electronic music studio, the first woman to set up a personal electronic music studio and the first woman to design and construct an electronic musical instrument. HUGH LE CAINE (May 27, 1914 – July 3, 1977) was a Canadian physicist, composer, and instrument builder. Le Caine was brought up in Port Arthur (now Thunder Bay) in northwestern Ontario. At a young age, he began making musical instruments. In youth, he started imagining "beautiful sounds". He attended high school in Port Arthur at Port Arthur Collegiate Institute (P.A.C.I.). After completing his master of science degree from Queen's University in 1939, Le Caine was awarded a National Research Council of Canada (NRC) fellowship to continue his work on atomic physics measuring devices at Queen's. He worked with the NRC in Ottawa from 1940 to 1974. During World War II, he assisted in the development of the first radar systems. On an NRC grant he studied nuclear physics from 1948 to 1952 in England. Le Caine wanted to devise new ways to produce those "beautiful sounds", so he established his own electronic music studio where he began to build new electronic instruments after World War II. At home, he pursued a lifelong interest in electronic music and sound generation. In 1937, Le Caine designed an electronic free reed organ, and in the mid-1940s, he built the Electronic Sackbut, now recognised to be one of the first synthesizers. After the success of public demonstrations of his instruments, he was permitted to move his musical activities to the NRC and to work on them full-time in 1954, where he gained funding in order to open ELMUS, the Canadian Electronic Music Laboratory. Over the next twenty years, he built over twenty-two different new instruments and helped Canadian universities establish their own studios in the new electronic music medium. DELIA ANN DERBYSHIRE (5 May 1937 – 3 July 2001) was an English musician and composer of electronic music. She is best known for her pioneering work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop during the 1960s, particularly her popular electronic arrangement of the theme music to the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who. She has been referred to as "the unsung heroine of British electronic music. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology. In general, a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means (electroacoustic music), and that produced using electronics only.[1] Electromechanical instruments include mechanical elements, such as strings, hammers, and so on, and electric elements, such as magnetic pickups, power amplifiers and loudspeakers. Examples of electromechanical sound producing devices include the telharmonium, Hammond organ, and the electric guitar, which are typically made loud enough for performers and audiences to hear with an instrument amplifier and speaker cabinet. Pure electronic instruments do not have vibrating strings, hammers, or other sound-producing mechanisms. Devices such as the theremin, synthesizer, and computer can produce electronic sounds. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Musique concrète (French pronunciation: ​[myzik kɔ̃.kʁɛt], meaning "concrete music")[nb 1] is a form of musique expérimentale (experimental music (Palombini 1998, 542)[not in citation given]) that exploits acousmatic listening, meaning sound identities can often be intentionally obscured or appear unconnected to their source cause. It can feature sounds derived from recordings of musical instruments, the human voice, and the natural environment as well as those created using synthesizers and computer-based digital signal processing. Compositions in this idiom are not restricted to the normal musical rules of melody, harmony, rhythm, metre, and so on. Originally contrasted with "pure" elektronische Musik (based solely on the production and manipulation of electronically produced sounds rather than recorded sounds), the theoretical basis of musique concrète as a compositional practice was developed by Pierre Schaeffer, beginning in the early 1940s. From the late 1960s onward, and particularly in France, the term acousmatic music (musique acousmatique) started to be used in reference to fixed media compositions that utilized both musique concrète based techniques and live sound spatialisation.
1965 BBC report on DAPHNE ORAM
DAPHNE ORAM - BBC Television Archives - BBC Television
Rotolock
DAPHNE ORAM - Oramics LP - Young Americans
Bird Of Parallax
DAPHNE ORAM - Oramics LP - Young Americans
Tumblewash
DAPHNE ORAM - Oramics LP - Young Americans
Lego Builds It
DAPHNE ORAM - Oramics LP - Young Americans
Episode Metallic
DAPHNE ORAM - Oramics LP - Young Americans
Pompie Ballet
DAPHNE ORAM - Oramics LP - Young Americans
Pulse Persephone
DAPHNE ORAM - Oramics LP - Young Americans
The 1948 Sackbut
HUGH LE CAINE - Pioneer In Electronic Music Instrument Design: Compositions And Demonstrations 1948-1972 LP - JWD Music Canadian
The Touch Sensitive Organ
HUGH LE CAINE - Pioneer In Electronic Music Instrument Design: Compositions And Demonstrations 1948-1972 LP - JWD Music Canadian
Dripsody
HUGH LE CAINE - Pioneer In Electronic Music Instrument Design: Compositions And Demonstrations 1948-1972 LP - JWD Music Canadian
Ninety-Nine Generators
HUGH LE CAINE - Pioneer In Electronic Music Instrument Design: Compositions And Demonstrations 1948-1972 LP - JWD Music Canadian
This Thing Called Key
HUGH LE CAINE - Pioneer In Electronic Music Instrument Design: Compositions And Demonstrations 1948-1972 LP - JWD Music Canadian
Arcane Presents Lulu
HUGH LE CAINE - Pioneer In Electronic Music Instrument Design: Compositions And Demonstrations 1948-1972 LP - JWD Music Canadian
Invocation
HUGH LE CAINE - Pioneer In Electronic Music Instrument Design: Compositions And Demonstrations 1948-1972 LP - JWD Music Canadian
Study No. 1 For Player Piano And Tape
HUGH LE CAINE - Pioneer In Electronic Music Instrument Design: Compositions And Demonstrations 1948-1972 LP - JWD Music Canadian
The Burning Deck
HUGH LE CAINE - Pioneer In Electronic Music Instrument Design: Compositions And Demonstrations 1948-1972 LP - JWD Music Canadian
A Noisome Pestilence
HUGH LE CAINE - Pioneer In Electronic Music Instrument Design: Compositions And Demonstrations 1948-1972 LP - JWD Music Canadian
Textures
HUGH LE CAINE - Pioneer In Electronic Music Instrument Design: Compositions And Demonstrations 1948-1972 LP - JWD Music Canadian
Nocturne
HUGH LE CAINE - Pioneer In Electronic Music Instrument Design: Compositions And Demonstrations 1948-1972 LP - JWD Music Canadian
Music For Expo
HUGH LE CAINE - Pioneer In Electronic Music Instrument Design: Compositions And Demonstrations 1948-1972 LP - JWD Music Canadian
Mobile
HUGH LE CAINE - Pioneer In Electronic Music Instrument Design: Compositions And Demonstrations 1948-1972 LP - JWD Music Canadian
Paulution
HUGH LE CAINE - Pioneer In Electronic Music Instrument Design: Compositions And Demonstrations 1948-1972 LP - JWD Music Canadian
Pot Au Feu
DELIA DERBYSHIRE - BBC Radiophonic Workshop ‎– BBC Radiophonic Music LP - BBC Records
All Tracks from Electrosonic LP
DON HARPER - LI DE LA RUSSE a.k.a DELIA DERBYSHIRE & NIKKI ST. GEORGE - Electrosonic LP - Glo-Spot
Dr. Who (Original Soundtrack)
BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP - Dr. Who / This Can't: 7" Single - Decca
Dr. Who (Stereo Version Of BBC TV Theme Music)
BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP - Dr. Who: 7" Single - BBC Records And Tapes
Dr. Who
PETER HOWELL - Doctor Who, Theme From The BBC TV Series: 7" Single - BBC Records And Tapes
The Doctor Who Themes: 50th Anniversary
MURRAY GOLD & BEN FOSTER - The Doctor Who Themes: 50th Anniversary Edition CD - BBC Television
Interactive CKCU
Sebastian, Lille
Fucking fantastic playlist can`t wait for the musique

12:53 PM, March 17th, 2018
Elorious Cain (host)
Merci Sebastian :-) Une emission tres nostalgique cette semaine T.

1:03 PM, March 17th, 2018
Professor Mike
I myself am a old school Doctor Who fan 4th and 5th incarnations. Awesome show as always.

1:13 PM, March 17th, 2018
Elorious Cain (host)
DELIA DERBYSHIRE who was part of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop produced the original theme of Doctor Who thats been modified as each season changed. Njoi the show Mike.... T.

1:16 PM, March 17th, 2018
COCO
J'ADORE CES SYMPHONIES ELECTRONIQUES.....MERCI TEKNOBRAT.....

1:32 PM, March 17th, 2018
PeterB
Hey Sir Brat, Just tuned in to Tumblewash. And now Lego, and then some Delia Derbyshire to come . VERY COOL ^%#@, and right up my alley today. (Of the many-many alleys i lurk in. ;^) Will miss much of the shoooooow live -- thank you OnDement. Not sure how this is "disco" ... but that's totally your problem. ;^)

1:33 PM, March 17th, 2018
Elorious Cain (host)
Hey Peter B thanks for the comment. Disco in many situations has electronic music elements. And during the 50's 60's and 70s many discoteques would program or mix Musique Concrete or Electronic Music in the productions or mixes. This is the whole point of this episode to pay tribute to the forgotten past of those unsung heroes who's electronic productions would not of existed perhaps many styles of disco would not either. Thanks for Tunning in :-) Teknobrat....

1:39 PM, March 17th, 2018
Elorious Cain (host)
Merci Coco... ce fut un voyage plein d education d avoir preparer cette episode nostlagique. T.

1:40 PM, March 17th, 2018
Tony Paskell
Great, great, great!!!

1:53 PM, March 17th, 2018
PeterB
Right on Teknobrat! It is ALL related and intertwined. Really great explore, and all the more happy homework for me. I think I have given up on doing any chores this aft.

1:56 PM, March 17th, 2018
Elorious Cain (host)
Thanks Tony !!! Im Happy the show is keeping you glued to your tuner Peter B. T.

1:57 PM, March 17th, 2018
Charles
Great show. Noticed you played the Doctor Who theme(very fascinating how it was made back in the sixties). I took note of the name Delia Derbyshire.

2:50 PM, March 17th, 2018
Charles
Good choice of music to test the coloured pulsing bluetooth speaker. Especially Doctor who themes.

3:02 PM, March 17th, 2018
Simon
Quite the chill journey. Very educational.

3:48 PM, March 17th, 2018
Elorious Cain
Thank you Teknobrat for an amazing show!

3:56 PM, March 17th, 2018
Teknobrat
Thanks for again for all the nice comments everyone ::-) Merci pour ton audtion de L emission Charles. Hope you had a good chill out session Simon while getting educated by the 3 grand pioneers of Electronic Music. Always an honor Elorious to fill in the bridge of The Groove... Be Well to All TEKNOBRAT !!!

6:22 PM, March 17th, 2018
)O21Q
LOVE THIS SHOW

12:02 PM, March 18th, 2018
Elorious Cain (host)
If you enjoyed this show, I recommend checking out ACOUSTIC FRONTIERS here on CKCU at 12:30 on Monday afternoons!

12:51 AM, March 19th, 2018
Toller
Very educational.

8:37 AM, March 22nd, 2018
Goffee (TO)
Not quite a typical Groove (if there ever was such a thing)

4:25 PM, March 22nd, 2018
Ralph
Great show and thanks for airing this material but please... it is not Hug, it's pronounced 'Huew' Le Caine.

8:34 PM, March 22nd, 2018