For most of human history, musical instruments were strictly mechanical devices. The musician either plucked something, blew into or across something, or banged on something to produce the sounds the ...

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Daphne Oram, cofounder in 1958 of the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop and namesake of Daphne: A Women's Movement in Dance Music Credit: Paul Downey / Creative Commons In 1957 the BBC commissioned its ...

Although the BBC Radiophonic Workshop is not very well-known, even in a lot of electronic music circles, the work they did was extraordinary, and known or unknown, the Workshop has had an enormous ...

Daphne Oram (1925–2003) was one of Britain’s most important early electronic composers. Oram trained first as a pianist and composer and turned down a place at the Royal College of Music to work at ...

Reinforcing the melancholy aspect of her work, this dark 44-track anthology of work by pioneering British electronic composer Daphne Oram draws from over 400 tapes she left behind after her death in ...

Ahead of its debut at Hamburg's Paripar Festival, sound artist and instrument builder Pit Przygodda and choreographer Yôko Higashi speak to Jakub Knera about a new project inspired by Daphne Oram's ...

Smart Bar launched its annual Daphne festival in 2015 to spotlight women and nonbinary electronic musicians in a scene where they’re often marginalized or overlooked. It takes its name from British ...

Lisa Rovner’s “Sisters With Transistors: Electronic Music’s Unsung Heroines” spotlights the pioneers who harnessed technology to do more than “push around dead white men’s notes.” By Lindsay Zoladz ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Daily Herald Archive/National Science and Media Museum/SSPL/Getty Images Daphne Oram (1925–2003) was one of Britain’s most ...