This will be a series of posts sharing a quote from a pioneer of electronic music with a reference to read and, where applicable, an episode to listen to from my podcast “Talk To The Chip" on the subject with Jono Podmore , featuring a piece from that pioneer. I don’t intend to spam or broadcast, and I’m not a regular content creator. It can hopefully be informative and inspiring for fellow members in our dearest tldr.nettime instance, and broader fediverse, especially lurkers and my friends who love sound.

Quotes from pioneering composers of electronic music

Quote 1: Let’s start with the great Daphne Oram: “You take a sound, any sound, record it and then change its nature by a multiplicity of operations”…."You record it at different speeds; you play it backwards; you add it to itself over and over again. You adjust filters, echoes, acoustic qualities…you produce a vast and subtle symphony. It’s a sort of modern magic. We think there’s something in it. Some musicians believe it may become an art form in its own right….” (Oram, from a 1957 BBC production https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/studio-as-an-instrument-part-1/)

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Reading: Oram’s "An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics’ https://www.daphneoram.org/anindividualnote/

Episode to listen to Oramics https://talktothechip.podbean.com/e/daphne-oram-oramics-part-1/