Delia Ann Derbyshire (5 May 1937-3 June 2001)
Born in Coventry in 1937, the first impact of Delia with the abstract sound that was generated by the sirens of the bombing of the German Luftwaffe in an endless night of 1940. The event, known as one of the most tragic monidale War II, was still one of the first performance of electronic music.
Delia's interest in the theory and perception of sound sources using only elttroniche probabilmete was the result of his degree in mathematics and music at Cambridge. According to Delia, the way we perceive the sound may have dominance over any mathematical theory, but the knowledge of the latter makes it easy to break and his superamentno.
After asking in vain for work to studies of Decca, who at the time not icludeva women in its workforce, is employed at the music publishers Boosey & Hawkes to land then the Radiophonic Workshop. The workshop was initially a department of the BBC's Radio Drama of service but at the time when Delia was chosen for its high musical skills, the RW was beginning to live its golden age. After composing numerous acronyms and sound effects in the attribution of "Radiophonic Workshop", the theme of "Doctor Who" (1963) by Ron Grainer gave her notoriety. The Doctor Who was one of the first television themes to be created and produced entirely by electronic means; Delia used oscillators, loops and reverse, a job that took whole night for weeks. After recording single notes from electronic sources, used the tape was cut into small centimeter patiently and then reassembled. Here's how Delia recalled the execution of loop tape to the longest ever Radiophonic Workshop:
"It Went out through the double doors and then through the next pair, just opposite the ladies toilet and reception. The longest corridor in London, with the longest tape loop "
In the 60s he started his collaborations with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Roberto Gerhard, Ianni Christou and becomes an assistant to Luciano Berio at the Dartington Summer School. Is involved in the early events of electronics in England at the Watermill Theatre, Nr Newbury, the Chalk Farm Roundhouse [with Paul McCartney], at the Royal Festival Hall. Delia was undoubtedly become one of the most interesting protagonists of experimental music and psychedelic-create the soundtrack for "Wrapping Event," Yoko Ono collaborated with Guy Woolfend and between 1966 and 1967 he founded with Brian Hodgson and Peter Zinovieff to the Unit Delta Plus order to promote electronic music outside the radio and TV. The three will perform at the Million Volt Light and Sound Rave where the Beatles (Paul and Ringo) played Carnival of light, leggendario concerto di pre-recorded electronic music. Sempre assieme a Brian Hodgson e con l’aggiunta di David Vorhaus realizza come White Noise “An electric Storm” (1968). Grazie allo studio di Petre Zinovieff ha l’occasione di conoscere Stockhausen, i Pink Floyd e Brian Jones; Barry Miles, biografo di Paul McCartney, narra di una collaborazione mai avvenuta tra i Beatles e Delia per la registrazione di Yesterday. Dal 1974 smette di comporre musica, interruzione durata fino agli anni Novanta quando inizia a lavorare con Peter Kember a un nuovo album che non vedrà mai luce. I suoi lavori per radio e TV degli anni '60 e '70 continueranno ad essere usati per oltre trent’anni. Ad oggi Delia Derbishire è been quoted, interviewed and coverizzata by musicians such as Sonic Boom, Aphex Twin and The Chemical Brothers.
"I Just Have a passion to make abstract sounds. A deep-rooted physical passion. "Delia Derbyshire
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