Delia Derbyshire – The Delian Mode [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2dvGQ32q8g

by dalke • 5 years ago

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dalke• 5 years ago

This is a 24 minute video biography of Delia Derbyshire, by Kara Blake.

Delia Derbyshire was a pioneer in electronic music, best known in popular culture for her realization of Ron Grainer's score for the Dr. Who theme music.

More about her, including many songs by her, at http://delia-derbyshire.net/ .

motohagiography• 5 years ago

This is a delight, thank you. I miss meeting minds like that. Sincere and genuine eccentrics. Her legacy may have been picked up in the 70's by Throbbing Gristle, Brian Eno, and then a couple of decades of industrial that followed. What this video closed the loop on for me was that Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85-92 was him making that music as far back as 85, a quick 10 years after Derbyshire left the BBC after having established her legacy and been such a huge influence on generations of musicians. Just such a pleasure to watch and listen to her story.

bogomipz• 5 years ago

For those interested there is also "Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes" that aired on BBC4 recently and is available on the iPlayer:

https://djmag.com/news/new-documentary-drama-about-electroni...

Cosey Fanni Tutti from Throbbing Gristle also contributed to the soundtrack.

There is also "Sisters with Transistors" which features a bunch of pioneering women in electronic music including Delia Derbyshire. This also came out recently as well:

https://sisterswithtransistors.com/

drumhead• 5 years ago

She was one of the absolute geniuses and pioneers of electronic music and electronic sound effects. She's never got the recognition that she deserves. Listening to the Doctor Theme from the 60s its amazing that something so alien, hypnotic and meserising could have come from back then.

Delia Derbyshire – The Delian Mode [video]

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