BBC Radiophonic Workshop's BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective

BBC Radiophonic Workshop's BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective
Author: William L. Weir
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2023-05-04
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1501389165

In 1958, an anonymous group of overworked and under-budgeted BBC employees set out to make some new sounds for radio and TV. They ended up changing the course of 20th-century music. For millions of people, the work of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop was the first electronic music they had ever heard. Sampling, loops, and the earliest synthesizers-long before audiences knew what they were-made up the groundbreaking scores for news programs, auto maintenance shows, and children's programming. They also produced the Doctor Who theme, one of the first electronic music masterpieces. The Beatles, Pink Floyd, and others borrowed from them. A generation of musicians raised on BBC programming-Aphex Twin, Portishead, and Prodigy among them-took these once-alien sounds and carried on the Workshop's legacy. Ignored for decades by music historians, the Workshop is now recognized as one of the most influential forebears of electronica, psychedelia, ambient music, and synth-pop.

Bbc Radiophonic Workshop

Bbc Radiophonic Workshop
Author: Source Wikipedia
Publisher: University-Press.org
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2013-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781230634715

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: BBC Radiophonic Workshop albums, Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective, Doctor Who: 30 Years at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 1: The Early Years 1963-1969, BBC Sound Effects No. 26 - Sci-Fi Sound Effects, Doctor Who - The Music, Brian Hodgson, Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 2: New Beginnings 1970-1980, BBC Radiophonic Music, Out of This World, BBC Radiophonic Workshop - 21, BBC Sound Effects No. 19 - Doctor Who Sound Effects, Peter Howell, Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 3: The Leisure Hive, Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 4: Meglos & Full Circle, The Radiophonic Workshop, Doctor Who - The Music II, Dick Mills, Music from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Paddy Kingsland, The Soundhouse, Desmond Briscoe, The John Baker Tapes - Volume One: BBC Radiophonics, Roger Limb, Fourth Dimension, Through a Glass Darkly, Mark Ayres, Richard Attree, Elizabeth Parker, David Cain, The Living Planet - Music from the BBC TV Series, Malcolm Clarke, Richard Yeoman-Clark, Maddalena Fagandini, Glynis Jones, Jonathan Gibbs. Excerpt: The BBC Radiophonic Workshop, one of the sound effects units of the BBC, was created in 1958 to produce effects and new music for radio, and was closed in March 1998, although much of its traditional work had already been outsourced by 1995. It was based in the BBC's Maida Vale Studios in Delaware Road, London, growing outwards from the then-legendary Room 13. The innovative music and techniques used by the Workshop made it one of the most significant influences on electronic music today. Dick Mills, BBC Radiophonic Workshop reunion live at the Roundhouse in 2009 The Workshop was set up to satisfy the growing demand in the late 1950s for "radiophonic..".

An Electric Storm

An Electric Storm
Author: Ned Netherwood
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: British Broadcasting Corporation
ISBN: 9781909031241

An Electric Storm: Daphne, Delia And The BBC Radiophonic Workshop contains all you need to know about the innovative and experimental geniuses who were responsible for a golden age of electronic music in Britain and some of the most famous sounds to be heard on UK television -- back cover.