Possible Delia Derbyshire Release

[bunyip]

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/154/789/535/publish-delia-derbyshires-music-from-the-bbc-sound-archive/?taf_id=10123317&cid=fb_na

 

Most of electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire's music exists in a single copy in the archives of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Many dozens, if not hundreds, of pieces of her beautiful work are mouldering unheard.

Delia's music broke new ground on several fronts: technological as she pushed what was possible with the equipment of her time, rhythmical as she experimented 11- and 13-note bars, and tonal as she freed herself from the 12-tone scale and voyaged into soundscapes and pure sound. Of Delia's work, only a tiny percentage is known to the public, whereas by far the majority of it is on tape in the Archive of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in the custody of Mark Ayres.

We petition the BBC Trust to apply pressure to the BBC so that these recordings be swiftly published on traditional audio media (CD, DVD) so that the public, and in particular the British public who paid for it to be produced, be able to learn from and develop this woman's amazing musical visionary style.

[MadameChaos]

Yes! great idea.

[Herr Jan]

Signed! Would be very nice to hear more of her stuff, properly dated and credited. I have some "complete works" of hers of about 130 tracks but that's such a mess. I'd pay good money for a nice boxset or something.

[kichiguy]

just gonna leave these here

 

[LimpyLoo]

oh shit this would be amazing!

[Guest Atom Dowry Firth]

Fingers crossed, would be great if this happened

[hello spiral]

just gonna leave these here

 

 

Two of my favorites!

 

Get out of my head!

[Guest Zelmo Swift]

that ziwzih track just made me say "what the fuck" out loud.

 

shit's alien.

[kaini]

just gonna leave these here

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pudr5dHPeoM

[Herr Jan]

 

just gonna leave these here

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pudr5dHPeoM

 

Didn't think I could dislike Die Antwoord anymore. Ffs.

[baph]

Does the BBC still have all of the (unreleased) Radiophonic Workshop music actually archived and preserved or do they "have" it in the sense that maybe some guy in Nigeria might stumble across something only slightly degraded that the BBC threw out in 1978?

[joshuatxuk]

Does the BBC still have all of the (unreleased) Radiophonic Workshop music actually archived and preserved or do they "have" it in the sense that maybe some guy in Nigeria might stumble across something only slightly degraded that the BBC threw out in 1978?

 

If I recall correctly the Radiophonic Workshop archives were miraculously sparred from the deletion policies of the 1970s. By miraculously sparred I mean the actually threw them away but the employee charged with destroying them never called anyone to haul them off. So they were erroneously sparred by "BBC's inefficiency."

 

55:00 onward.

 

http://youtu.be/DFznOcOOSec

[joshuatxuk]

Signed this. Is there a particular reason any release is being held off, legally or otherwise?

[awepittance]

if this includes that one Aphexy analog bubblebath sounding that they posted a snippet from in that BBC article from a few years back.... fuck yes I'm signing this

[DerWaschbar]

Plz.

http://youtu.be/szE5D-dPs_Y

[doublename]

^^Oh my Jesus