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DoublePlusGood
May 11, 2021 3:00 AM – 6:00 AM
With Lizbot
SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS: Pioneers of Electronic Music
Electronic Music Pioneers & Their Protégés
Inspired by the new documentary by Lisa Rovner!
3:03 AM |
| Elizabeth Parker Radio Blackburn BBC Radiophonic Workshop - The Soundhouse BBC Records 1983 Elizabeth Parker is a UK composer and sound designer in the field of incidental, theme and film scores.
She worked at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop from 1978 until the workshop's closure in 1998. She was the last composer to leave the workshop.
She is best known for providing special sound for the BBC science fiction series Blake's 7.
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3:04 AM |
| Delia Derbyshire Hannett and Delia Synth Exchanges Track 14 Delia Derbyshire The Synth and Electronic Recording Exchanges An English musician and composer of electronic music, she carried out pioneering work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop during the 1960s, including her electronic arrangement of the theme music to the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who.
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3:06 AM |
| Daphne Oram Phensic The Oram Tapes, Vol. One Young Americans 1961 As a co-founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Daphne Oram became a central figure in the evolution of electronic music. She was one of the first British composers to produce electronic sound, and was a pioneer of musique concrète in the UK. Her uncredited scoring work on the 1961 film The Innocents helped to pioneer the electronic soundtrack.
Oram was the creator of the Oramics technique for creating electronic sounds using drawn sound, a sound recording created from images drawn directly onto film or paper that were then played back using a sound system. She was also the first woman to independently direct and set up a personal electronic music studio, and the first woman to design and construct an electronic musical instrument.
In her book An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics (1971) she explored philosophical themes related to the physics of sound.
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3:07 AM |
| Daphne Oram Oramics Demonstration (Excerpt) Daphne Oram The Oram Tapes, Vol. One
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3:08 AM |
| Daphne Oram Ascending and Decending Sequences of Varying Nature vi Electronic Sound Patterns (Remastered) Trunk Records 2013
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3:09 AM |
| Daphne Oram Rhythmic Variations i Electronic Sound Patterns (Remastered) Trunk Records 2013
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3:10 AM |
| Delia Derbyshire & Anthony Newley I Decoded You (Moogies Bloogies, Pt. 2) Moogies Bloogies - Single Trunk Records, UK 2014
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3:11 AM |
| Delia Derbyshire Hannett and Delia Synth Exchanges Track 3 Delia Derbyshire The Synth and Electronic Recording Exchanges
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3:14 AM |
| Delia Derbyshire Hannett and Delia Synth Exchanges Track 8 Delia Derbyshire The Synth and Electronic Recording Exchanges
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3:15 AM |
| Delia Derbyshire Hannett and Delia Synth Exchanges Track 20 Delia Derbyshire The Synth and Electronic Recording Exchanges
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3:16 AM |
| Clara Rockmore The Swan Clara Rockmore Music In and On The Air
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3:19 AM |
| Laurie Anderson Let X=X Laurie Anderson Big Science 1982
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3:23 AM |
| Laurie Anderson It Tango Laurie Anderson Big Science 1982
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3:26 AM |
| Laurie Spiegel From a Harmonic Algorithm Laurie Spiegel Unseen Worlds Unseen Worlds 1981
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3:29 AM |
| Suzanne Ciani Concert at WBAI Free Music Store Suzanne Ciani Buchla Concerts 1975 Finders Keepers Records, NYC 1975 American musician, sound designer, composer, and record label executive who found early success in the 1970s with her electronic music and sound effects for films and television commercials. Her career has included works with quadraphonic sound, AKA 4-channel surround-sound.
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3:47 AM |
| Suzanne Ciani Part Two Suzanne Ciani LIVE Quadraphonic Atmospheric/CyKiK 2018
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3:52 AM |
| Holly Herndon Eternal Holly Herndon PROTO 4AD 2019 The album was created in a collaboration with an AI program named "Spawn", created by Herndon and Mat Dryhurst, and located in a "DIY souped-up gaming PC". It features "live vocal processing and timeless folk singing" with an "emphasis on alien song craft".
The album features "live training" sessions during which vocalists recruited by Herndon and Dryhurst would teach Spawn how to interpret sounds. Herndon has said that her aim is to make technology seem less "dehumanizing".
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3:57 AM |
| Suzanne Ciani Part Nine Suzanne Ciani LIVE Quadraphonic Atmospheric/CyKiK 2018
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3:59 AM |
| Wendy Carlos Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 - Prelude & Fugue #2 In C Minor, BWV 847 Bach Switched-On Bach Columbia Masterworks 1968 Debut by Wendy Carlos, American musician and composer best known for her electronic music and film scores.Studying and working with various electronic musicians and technicians at the city's Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, she helped in the development of the Moog synthesizer, the first commercially available keyboard instrument created by Robert Moog.
Carlos came to prominence with Switched-On Bach (1968), an album of music by Johann Sebastian Bach performed on a Moog synthesizer.
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4:02 AM |
| Holly Herndon Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt PROTO 4AD Ltd 2019
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4:05 AM |
| Laurie Spiegel Appalachian Grove I The Expanding Universe
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4:10 AM |
| Laurie Anderson O Superman Laurie Anderson Big Science 1982
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4:19 AM |
| Laurie Spiegel Modal Pieces (1983): III. A Myth Laurie Spiegel Obsolete Systems Electronic Music Foundation, NYC 2001
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4:25 AM |
| BBC Radiophonic Workshop Artbeat (2018 Remaster) BBC Radiophonic Music
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4:25 AM |
| Wendy Carlos Scarlatti: Sonata in G Major L. 209/K. 455 Scarlatti The Well-Tempered Synthesizer Columbia 1969 Debut by Wendy Carlos, American musician and composer best known for her electronic music and film scores.Studying and working with various electronic musicians and technicians at the city's Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, she helped in the development of the Moog synthesizer, the first commercially available keyboard instrument created by Robert Moog.
Carlos came to prominence with Switched-On Bach (1968), an album of music by Johann Sebastian Bach performed on a Moog synthesizer.
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4:27 AM |
| Wendy Carlos Initial Experiments (Spoken Word) Switched-On Bach Columbia 1968 Debut album
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4:36 AM |
| Wendy Carlos Bach: 2-Part Invention #8 In F, BWV 779 Switched-On Bach 1968
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4:36 AM |
| Wendy Carlos Bach: Brandenburg Concerto #3 In G, BWV 1048 - 2. Adagio Switched-On Bach 1968
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4:39 AM |
| Delia Derbyshire Hannett and Delia Synth Exchanges Track 10 Delia Derbyshire The Synth and Electronic Recording Exchanges
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4:44 AM |
| Laurie Spiegel Patchwork Laurie Spiegel The Expanding Universe Philo/Unseen Worlds 1980 Best known for her use of interactive and algorithmic logic as part of the compositional process, Spiegel worked with Buchla and Electronic Music Laboratories synthesizers and subsequently many early, often experimental and prototype-level music and image generation systems.
She worked at Bell Laboratories, in computer graphics, and is known primarily for her electronic-music compositions and her algorithmic composition software Music Mouse. She also plays the guitar and lute.
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4:56 AM |
| Suzanne Ciani Part Five Suzanne Ciani LIVE Quadraphonic Atmospheric/CyKiK 2018
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4:56 AM |
| BBC Radiophonic Workshop Factors (2018 Remaster) BBC Radiophonic Workshop BBC Radiophonic Music
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4:56 AM |
| BBC Radiophonic Workshop Crossbeat (2018 Remaster) BBC Radiophonic Music
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4:56 AM |
| Elizabeth Parker Planet Earth BBC Radiophonic Workshop: The Soundhouse BBC Records 2016
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5:07 AM |
| Pauline Oliveros Lion's Tale Pauline Oliveros Lion's Eye / Lion's Tale Deep Listening 2006 Pauline Oliveros was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music. She was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center in the 1960s, and served as its director.Oliveros authored books, formulated new music theories, and investigated new ways to focus attention on music including her concepts of "deep listening" and "sonic awareness"
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5:15 AM |
| BBC Radiophonic Workshop The Missing Jewel (2018 Remaster) BBC Radiophonic Music
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5:16 AM |
| BBC Radiophonic Workshop Sea Sports (2018 Remaster) BBC Radiophonic Music
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5:17 AM |
| Delia Derbyshire Hannett and Delia Synth Exchanges Track 18 Delia Derbyshire The Synth and Electronic Recording Exchanges
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5:18 AM |
| BBC Radiophonic Workshop New Worlds (2018 Remaster) BBC Radiophonic Music
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5:19 AM |
| Laurie Spiegel East River Dawn Laurie Spiegel The Expanding Universe Unseen Worlds 2012
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5:36 AM |
| BBC Radiophonic Workshop P.I.G.S. (2018 Remaster) BBC Radiophonic Music
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5:37 AM |
| Laurie Spiegel Clockworks Laurie Spiegel The Expanding Universe Philo/Unseen Worlds 1980 Contains 4 pieces created using the GROOVE system at Bell Labs. Re-released with additional material in 2012.
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5:42 AM |
| BBC Radiophonic Workshop Milky Way (2018 Remaster) BBC Radiophonic Music
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5:44 AM |
| Wendy Carlos Just Imaginings Wendy Carlos Beauty in the Beast Audion Records 1986 The album uses alternate musical tunings and scales, influenced by jazz and world music. On the back she includes a quote by Van Gogh: "I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it."
As the liner notes state, the entire album is synthesized, meaning that "All the music and sounds heard on this recording were directly digitally generated. This eliminates all the limitations of microphones, the weak link necessary in nearly all other digital recordings, including those that use 'sampling' technologies."
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5:58 AM |
| Wendy Carlos Scarlatti: Sonata in E Major, L. 430/K. 531 Scarlatti The Well-Tempered Synthesizer Columbia 1969
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6:00 AM |
| Éliane Radigue Occam Ocean II Éliane Radigue Occam Ocean II Shiiin 2019 Éliane Radigue is a French electronic music composer. She began working in the 1950s and her first compositions were presented in the late 1960s. Until 2000 her work was almost exclusively created with the ARP 2500 modular synthesizer and tape.
She works with electronic sounds on tape to create an ambience within which sound seems to move in a continual flow around the listener. Her music has been described as "infinitely discreet ... next to which all other music seems to be tugging at one's sleeve for attention” by Michel Chion in "Les musiques électroacoustiques"
Her music attracted considerable attention for its sensitive, dappled purity. She was in residence at the electronic music studios of the University of Iowa and California Institute of the Arts in 1973. In 1975, Radigue became a disciple of Tibetan Buddhism. After four years of study, she began a large-scale cycle of works based on the life of the 11th century Tibetan master Milarepa.
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