Reel-to-Reel Beat Matching Virtuosa

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Delia Derbyshire: Reel-to-Reel Beat Matching Virtuosa | www.delia-derbyshire.org

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thomasking55 said in February 15th, 2010 at 4:15 pm

There’s a lot of money in those machines. What a resorce!

javoys said in February 17th, 2010 at 1:22 am

she was great
and yeah totally you can see in the pompeii movie roger waters using a synth in a very delia-ish way

egeneric said in February 19th, 2010 at 8:57 am

@fatcatbuzz
misogynistic bastards - the BBC !
Does not matter if the actress portrayal is not her …
“Delia” created a new genre of electronic sound -
and those BLOODY wanks couldn’t appreciate the FACT !?
SHAME ON THE BBC.

MrMorgansgoat said in February 21st, 2010 at 10:07 am

Delia Derbyshire was a fucking GENIUS ! I know thats an over used word but think about it, When she was busy hacking away finding totally new forms of music people like Hendrix and Lennon were being hailed as genius for playing guitars.

fatcatbuzz said in February 22nd, 2010 at 5:34 pm

That’s pretty interesting. I may have to check out that website. Pink Floyd’s work is tape effect oriented. I have The Body by Roger Waters and Umagumma by Pink Floyd which makes good use of the tape effects of the day. Also, the drums of A Saucerful of Secrets are a tape loop.

funny0000000 said in February 25th, 2010 at 11:34 pm

I did some research and she did teach Roger Waters and the rest of pink floyd her skills. Her web site said something like they wanted to learn everything she knew and they did.

fatcatbuzz said in February 28th, 2010 at 5:59 pm

I don’t think they knew each other personally, but on One Of These Days they pay tribute to Dr. Who in the middle. I think alot of musician were messing around with things like tape loops and oscillator before syths came out. Dalia Derbyshire would have been one of others working for the BBC and probably would have had just the status of working there and would have just had a low profile with that status even at the BBC. Plus, the BBC at the time was still a male dominant work place.

fatcatbuzz said in March 1st, 2010 at 5:26 am

Yep, I think that is what most people think. I meant to write “not too long before syths” which came out only about a little less than a decade later. But, in order to get those sounds you had to use sound oscillators.

buskerbuoy said in March 4th, 2010 at 6:26 am

Thanks for the info - I had it my head that the Dr. Who theme was the first moog synthesiser piece. Must have been an urban myth.

fatcatbuzz said in March 4th, 2010 at 11:20 am

You really couldn’t even get the original Dr. Who sound today with all of our modern equipment. Just listen to the new theme music (I’m not knocking it, I actually like it) and you will see it sound nothing like the original. That’s because the original was done with 8 reel to reels going in to one master reel. Also, the sound effect are electronic oscillators, tape loops and tape effect, not syths. This was done long too long before syths, but you will never get that sound again.

fatcatbuzz said in March 5th, 2010 at 12:56 pm

Not very rich at all. She didn’t actually really get the credit she deserved. The woman in the video is named Delia Derbyshire. She put together Ron Gainer’s theme for Dr. Who on tape back before syths and was done with electronic oscillators, tape effects and loops just like in this video. Ron Gainer actually wanted to give her half the publishing rights to the song, but the BBC wouldn’t allow things like that back then.

buskerbuoy said in March 7th, 2010 at 2:46 am

how rich is this lady

RuggedLike said in March 10th, 2010 at 2:10 pm

stick some breaks on that shit

MarsHottentot said in March 11th, 2010 at 2:16 pm

I’m in love…

jihadacadien said in March 11th, 2010 at 8:01 pm

This is just great!

resfish said in March 12th, 2010 at 1:19 am

omg…really years ahead of the time!!!! really

HoboMiracleMan said in March 13th, 2010 at 9:44 pm

what up reel jockey

SuperCaliListic said in March 14th, 2010 at 4:47 am

love it! –Alyssa

funny0000000 said in March 15th, 2010 at 9:08 am

That is correct. I leaned that after the post.

Still it would not sound at all like it does without her though.

pidgin said in March 18th, 2010 at 1:13 pm

She didn’t compose the Doctor Who theme, but she did arrange/produce it. Ron Grainer composed it.

Jo0ngle said in March 19th, 2010 at 10:15 am

WOW, that’s what I call a girl WAY ahead of her time!
Funny - we never hear about these things before it’s too late…

coldiest said in March 19th, 2010 at 6:58 pm

Dee Jay Dee Dee

Vince2173 said in March 21st, 2010 at 2:50 pm

This amazing song she is working on is called “Way Out”.
It was supposed to be for a school program, but the BBC said it was too sophisticated, so it was used in a deoderant commercial instead!

funny0000000 said in March 22nd, 2010 at 12:48 am

65,000 views and I have to answer my own question I asked two weeks ago below!

Delia Derbyshire’s web site states “A recent Guardian article called her ‘the unsung heroine of British electronic music’, probably because of the way her infectious enthusiasm subtly cross-pollinated the minds of many creative people. She had exploratory encounters with Paul McCartney, Karlheinz Stockhausen, George Martin, Pink Floyd, Brian Jones, Anthony Newley, Ringo Starr and Harry Nilsson.”