Daphne Oram - An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics (1972).pdf

A 146-page book published in 1972 by Galliard paperbacks, No. C 15 0105236
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Daphne Oram was educated at Sherborne School for Girls and then, during the war, she joined the BBC in London as a Music Balancer. There she worked with most of the well-known international musicians in the fields of chamber music and opera. But, alongside this work, she was intrigued by the possibilities of manipulating magnetic tape sound and as early as 1948 began to build special equipment for experiments. She was the first to compose an electronic sound track for a BBC television play (Amphitryon 38), all the composing being done in the middle of the night (using quickly assembled equipment) in the deserted Broadcasting House studios.
When the BBC eventually built an experimental studio, the Radiophonic Workshop, Daphne Oram helped to design it and then directed it. In 1959, she decided to leave the BBC to create her own studio in her converted oasthouse at Wrotham, Kent.
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Inventor of the Oramics system for the creation of electronic music, the author explains the basics, techniques and philosophy behind her musical vision.