DAPHNE ORAM - "ORAMICS" - 4-LP SET -ELECTRONIC MUSIC PIONEER - UK IMPORT

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DAPHNE ORAM
"Oramics" YOUNG AMERICANS Records, 2019 4-LP SET Imported from the UK
Originally released in 2010. Deluxe clear four-LP edition, 155 minutes/eight sides of vinyl mastered and cut at Dubplates & Mastering and housed in a heavyweight, 300gm gatefold sleeve featuring rare archival photographs. 
This hugely influential, definitive collection from electronic music pioneer and founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Daphne Oram, has been out of print on vinyl since 2013 and is now thankfully available again via Modern Love side-label, Young Americans.
Throughout her life, Oram was a wildly original musician, inventor and theorist who refused to bow to convention. 
While Delia Derbyshire had more or less become a household name, it was only when Clive Graham compiled Oramics for a CD release in 2007 that Daphne's legacy started to extend beyond the fringes. 
In the intervening years (aided by the work of the Daphne Oram Trust and Oram's archive at Goldsmith's in London) there have been countless articles, features, a play, an exhibition at the science museum and even a creative arts building and several record labels and arts awards named in Daphne's honor -- going some way to restore her place as a recognized pioneer of electronic music. 
To recap, Oram was the founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, a department she more or less single-handedly created in 1958 camping out at the BBC studios for nights on end splicing tapes and working with various modified machines to carefully arrange her abstract soundscapes. 
Eventually the BBC bent under her pressure and, in studio 13, created the soon-to-be-legendary Radiophonic Workshop -- with Oram its first director. 
Among her countless other achievements, Oram is also cited as the first woman to design and build an electronic musical instrument, one that worked around the "drawn-sound" technique whereby strips of 35mm film would be manipulated before being fed into her home-made "Oramics" machine which would convert and "read" the film into sound. 
She was also a prolific writer and lecturer on electronic music and studio techniques, developing concepts of spatial sound years before terms like "spatial sound" were even used. 
Despite her considerable and historic list of achievements, Oram's life and work remained largely unknown by the wider public for many years until Clive Graham compiled this set. 
Spanning 44 tracks, it demonstrates Oram's work as some of the most varied and groundbreaking electronic music ever made. 
As opposed to so much of the Radiophonic-era material that has surfaced over the last few decades, Oram's work is often characterized by a much more layered and introspective quality, offsetting playful interludes and commercial recordings with beautiful, immersive pieces like the breathtaking "Pulse Persephone" and "Bird of Parallax" -- highly atmospheric and experimental variants of musique concrète and tape music that still take our breath away 45 years later.
It's impossible to over-emphasize the importance and influence of the material compiled on Oramics, a set that should be considered compulsory listening for anyone with even just a passing interest in electronic music.
Track Listing:
Side A: 01. Introduction 02. Power Tools 03. Studio Experiment No. 3 04. In A Jazz Style 05. Purring Interlude Side B: 06. Contrasts Essconic 07. Lego Builds It 08. Pompie Ballet 09. Intertel 10. Adwick High School 11. Look At Oramics 12. Rotolock Side C: 13. Purple Dust 14. High Speed Flight 15. Studio Experiment 16. Four Aspects 17. Kia Ora Side D: 18. Dr Faustus Suite 19. Adwick High School 20. Tumblewash 21. Studio Experiment 22. Snow Side E: 23. Rockets In Ursa Major (Excerpt 1) 24. Food Preservation 26. Bala 27. Episode Metallic 28. Studio Experiment No. 4 Side F: 29. Ardwick High School No. 3 30. Fanfare Of Graphs 31. Studio Experiment No. 5 32. Brociliande 33. Mary Had A Little Lamb 34. Incidental Music For Invasion (Excerpts) Side G: 35. Costain Suite 36. Rockets In Ursa Major (Excerpt 2) 37. Passacaglia 38. Missile Away Side H: 39. Pulse Persephone 40. Ardwick High School No. 4 41. Nestea 42. Rockets In Ursa Major (Excerpt 3) 43. Conclusion 44. Studio Jinks
- Extremely special artifact from the founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Daphne Oram.  - None of this material has ever been available on vinyl before.  - Oram was the first woman in the world to direct an electronic music studio, the first woman to set up a personal studio and the first woman to design and construct an electronic musical instrument.  - 155 minutes/8 sides of vinyl cut by Lupo at D&M.  - Housed in a heavyweight 300gm gatefold sleeve featuring rare archive photographs.  - Featured in FACT Magazine's list of 20 best collectible records of 2010.
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