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Delia Derbyshire/Blue Veils and Golden Sand
Delia Derbyshire (1937-2001). Always remembered solely as the composer of the "Doctor Who" theme, our Delia was an assistant to Luciano Berio, for instance, a scholar of audiology, and the founder of organizations dedicated to the study and dissemination of electronic music, also applied in classical, contemporary, and other fields.
Graduated from Cambridge in "Mathematics and Music," she was advised to pursue a career in audiological engineering for the creation of audio prostheses for the hearing impaired, since, at the time, record companies did not hire women at a professional technical level. Later, she became highly sought after not only as an expert in sounds in the broadest sense, but also, and above all, as a creator of electronic soundscapes using both antiquated means (modulating keyboards from the 1930s) and cutting-edge synths.
Incidentally, Decca Records, which courteously declined to hire her as a sound engineer "because she was a woman," is the same Decca that, three years later, would refuse to sign the Beatles, concluding with prescient foresight: "Groups with guitars are no longer in fashion..."
Delia Derbyshire/Blue Veils and Golden Sand
Delia Derbyshire (1937-2001). Always remembered solely as the composer of the "Doctor Who" theme, our Delia was an assistant to Luciano Berio, for instance, a scholar of audiology, and the founder of organizations dedicated to the study and dissemination of electronic music, also applied in classical, contemporary, and other fields.
Graduated from Cambridge in "Mathematics and Music," she was advised to pursue a career in audiological engineering for the creation of audio prostheses for the hearing impaired, since, at the time, record companies did not hire women at a professional technical level. Later, she became highly sought after not only as an expert in sounds in the broadest sense, but also, and above all, as a creator of electronic soundscapes using both antiquated means (modulating keyboards from the 1930s) and cutting-edge synths.
Incidentally, Decca Records, which courteously declined to hire her as a sound engineer "because she was a woman," is the same Decca that, three years later, would refuse to sign the Beatles, concluding with prescient foresight: "Groups with guitars are no longer in fashion..."
Dislocation
30 jan 20
DeRank ™: 16,85
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