Daphne Oram
British composer and electronic musician (1925–2003) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Daphne Blake Oram (31 December 1925 – 5 January 2003) was a British composer and electronic musician. She was one of the first British composers to produce electronic sound, and was an early practitioner of musique concrète in the UK.[3] As a co-founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, she was central to the development of British electronic music.[4] Her uncredited scoring work on the 1961 film The Innocents helped to pioneer the electronic soundtrack.[1]
Daphne Oram | |
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Background information | |
Birth name | Daphne Blake Oram[1] |
Born | (1925-12-31)31 December 1925 Devizes, Wiltshire, England |
Died | 5 January 2003(2003-01-05) (aged 77) Maidstone, Kent, England[2] |
Genres | |
Occupation(s) | Composer, electronic musician |
Instrument(s) | Synthesiser |
Oram was the creator of the Oramics technique for graphical sound. She was 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.[3] In her book An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics (1971) she explored philosophical themes related to acoustics and electronic composition.