prosthetic knowledge
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Prosthetic Knowledge Picks: CurAudio / DocuMP3
A collection of audio content from the Prosthetic Knowledge Tumblr archive and around the web.
Featuring a 2004 talk from Notcon called “100 Years of the Computer Artscene”, DJ Food’s documentary-in-mixtape-form “Raiding The 20th Century”, Delia Derbyshire’s “Dreams” which feature narrations of peoples dreams with her unique audio style, and “Antique Electronic / Synthesizer Greats 1955 - 1984 Part 1” by Fluorescent Grey, a mix of electronic music created between that period, cut-up, and reconstructed into something contemporary.
You can check all of this out at Rhizome here
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Journey Into The Unconscious Mind of September 70
A 30 minute mix described as ‘Beat Noir’ - could be great for Halloween. Music that has beats turntablists and hip-hop lovers would like, but with an older cinematic flavour:
Journey Into the Unconscious Mind revolves around a hypnotic theme and branches out into dangerous film noir psychosis with a cinematic ambience.
1. Bernard Estardy – Super Angoisse [Pianos et Orgues - Telemusic - TM 3005 - 1970]
2. Les Maledictus Sound - Heathcliffe Y Cry Your Name [Attention! - CLJ-33-113 – 1968]
3. Delia Derbyshire - Delia’s Psychedelian Waltz De La Russe
4. Caravelli - L’étrange Dr. Personne [April Orchestra Vol 16 – April Music - APR 16 – 1977]
5. Stefano Torossi - Fearing Much [Feelings – Conroy - BMLP 143 - 1975]
6. Paul Piot - Vertueuse Rêveuse [Choeurs - Telemusic - TM 3022 - 1972]
7. The Seeds – Six Dreams (Intro) [Future – 1967]
8. I Marc 4 – Hyde Park [No 1 -
9. Piero Umiliani - Etat Hypnotique [Effets Spéciaux - St Germain Des Prés - St GDP 114 - 1972]
10. Sandro Brugnolini - Adrie’s Dream [Overground – 1970]
11. Raskovich - Symphonie Irréelle [Obsession Dramatique - Sonimage - SI 813 - 1973]
12. The Millennium – Karmic Dream Sequence (Original version) [
13. The Roger Webb Sound – Moonbird [Vocal Patterns - Music De Wolfe - DW/LP 3182 - 1971]
14. Dorothy Ashby – Windmills of Your Mind [Dorothy’s Harp – 1969]
15. The Chocolate Watchband – Expo 2000 [No Way Out – 1967]
16. Barry Forgie – Mindbender [Stringtronics - Peer International - PIL 9013 - 1972]
17. Vaclav Nelhybel - Cosmic Awakening -
Ways of Seeing - Episode 4: Commercial Art (via UBU Web)
Ways of Seeing was a BBC television series consisting of visual essays that raise questions about hidden ideologies in visual images. The series gave rise to a later book of the same name written by John Berger.
It would be easy to say that Ways of Seeing is hopelessly dated — made in 1972, the films come across as a puritan-groovy mix of Monty Python, the Open University and the Look Around You spoofs. And yet what’s so remarkable about this series is that it seems more apposite, subversive and thought-provoking than ever. The Britain we glimpse in the films, already alienated by spooky BBC Radiophonic Workshop music by Delia Derbyshire, is alienated even more by the passing of time. Alienated usefully, in the Brechtian sense; we look at a capitalist society which is like, and unlike, our own.
One way our own society is unlike 1972 is in the fact that, despite the enormous plethora of TV and internet TV we have now, nobody has made anything quite like this. In art history, the treatment of women’s bodies, in our relationship with objects and property and in advertising (the themes of the four films) the same mystifications and objectifications and manipulations carry on. What doesn’t carry on is analysis of them on this level.Before I went to study Art at university, Ways of Seeing was essential reading before attending, despite being almost 20 years since it was first publicized.
More episodes and information about this program can be found at UBU Web at this page
NB - it might be worth noting that Delia Derbyshire is mentioned in the credits :)
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(via grimoires)
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Running - Delia Derbyshire (via UBUWEB)
Dreams (1964)
1. Running
2. Falling
3. Land
4. Sea
5. Colour
6. Outro
“Dreams” was made in collaboration with Barry Bermange (who originally recorded the narrations). Bermange put together The Dreams (1964), a collage of people describing their dreams, set to a background of electronic sound. Dreams is a collection of spliced/reassembled interviews with people describing their dreams, particularly recurring elements. The program of sounds and voices attempts to represent, in five movements, some sensations of dreaming: running away, falling, landscape, underwater, and colour.
Delia Ann Derbyshire (5 May 1937 - 3 July 2001) was an English musician and composer of electronic music and musique concrète. She is best known for her electronic realisation of Ron Grainer’s theme music to the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and for her work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. -
by Luke Insect (title unknown)
I love this collage of Delia Derbyshire and BBC Radiophonic Workshop
More can be found on the Brighton Freaks website
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(via fuckyeahdeliaderbyshire)
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“Air”, Delia Derbyshire
(Thanks to iishtar on YouTube).
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The Sculptress of Sound: The Lost Works of Delia Derbyshire
Huffduffed by hickensian on March 29th, 2010
The broadcaster and Doctor Who fan MATTHEW SWEET travels to The University of Manchester - home of Delia Derbyshire’s private collection of audio recordings - to learn more about the wider career and working methods of the woman who realised Ron Grainer’s original theme to Doctor Who.
Delia’s collection of tapes was, until recently, in the safekeeping of MARK AYRES, archivist for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Matthew meets up at Manchester University with Mark, along with Delia’s former colleagues from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, BRIAN HODGSON and DICK MILLS - plus former ‘White Noise’ band member DAVID VORHAUS - to hear extracts from the archive, discuss their memories of Delia and the creative process behind some of her material. Her realisation of the Doctor Who theme is just one small example of her genius and we’ll demonstrate how the music was originally created as well as hearing individual tracks from Delia’s aborted 70’s version. We’ll also feature the make up tapes for her celebrated piece ‘Blue Veils and Golden Sands’, and hear Delia being interviewed on a previously ‘lost’ BBC recording from the 1960s. Matthew’s journey of discovery will take in work with the influential poet Barry Bermange, as well as her 1971 piece marking the centenary of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. This Archive on 4 is brought up to date with an individual track from ‘The Dance’ from the children’s programme ‘Noah’. Recorded in the late 1960s this remarkable tape sounds like a contemporary dance track which wouldn’t be out of place in today’s most ‘happening’ trance clubs.
via Huffduffer
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Delia Derbyshire (via orchidblack)
