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One Week One Band—The Whole List

Monday

• How I discovered radiophonics—an introduction
• The Tomorrow People
• Daphne Oram, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and excerpt from The Same Trade as Mozart
• The interior of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop studio
• Daphne Oram—”Pompie Ballet”

Tuesday

• Delia Derbyshire, “Blue Veils and Golden Sands”
• Delia describes her method of making music with tape-loops
• “Science and Health”, the music deemed “too lascivious” by a BBC producer
• The 1963 Doctor Who Theme
• Undated newspaper article about Ron Grainer
• The opening and closing titles to An Unearthly Child

Wednesday

• The longest tape-loop in London
• John Baker: Oranges and Lemons
• John Baker at work
• How the “Reading Your Letters” theme for Woman’s Hour was made
• Delia Derbyshire and “Ziwzih Ziwzih oo-oo-oo”
• Delia Derbyshire, Electrosonic, and “Nightwalker”
• Unit Delta Plus artifacts
• White Noise, “Firebird”

Thursday

• Tristram Cary and EMS
• EMS publicity materials for their synthesizers
• Doctor Who: The “Delaware” version of the theme
• VCS3 patch diagram for “Poetry from Prisons”
• Malcolm Clarke and Desmond Briscoe and the Workshop’s Synthi 100
• Doctor Who: Peter Howell’s 1980 arrangement of the theme

Friday

• The Legacy of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
• Q&A with Jonny Trunk
• Radiophonic Reunion: The Roundhouse concert, 2009
• Everything New Is Old Again: D.D. Denham, Ursula Bogner, Pye Corner Audio Transcription Service
• A Few Parting Words on the Doctor Who Theme
• Acknowledgements

Total posts: 31 
(Average: 6 posts/day.)

Approximate word count for the week: over 8,000.
(Average: 258 words/post, but the longer ones clocked in at around 500-700, and the shorter ones at 100 or so.)

Change in follower count at OWOB: 13,268 when I made my first post on Monday, 13,689 when I made my last post on Friday.
(Debatable how much credit I can take, but the important thing is that I didn’t cause a net loss.)

Thanks, everyone. If you’ve been following along, I hope you enjoyed it. And because it bears repeating: thank you, Bruce, for all your help. None of this would have ever happened without you.

One Week One Band—Thursday

• Tristram Cary and EMS
• EMS publicity materials for their synthesizers
• Doctor Who: The “Delaware” version of the theme
• VCS3 patch diagram for “Poetry from Prisons”
• Malcolm Clarke and Desmond Briscoe and the Workshop’s Synthi 100
• Doctor Who: Peter Howell’s 1980 arrangement of the theme

One Week One Band—Wednesday

• The longest tape-loop in London
• John Baker: Oranges and Lemons
• John Baker at work
• How the “Reading Your Letters” theme for Woman’s Hour was made
• Delia Derbyshire and “Ziwzih Ziwzih oo-oo-oo”
• Delia Derbyshire, Electrosonic, and “Nightwalker”
• Unit Delta Plus artifacts
• White Noise, “Firebird”

One Week One Band—Tuesday

• Delia Derbyshire, “Blue Veils and Golden Sands”
• Delia describes her method of making music with tape-loops
• “Science and Health”, the music deemed “too lascivious” by a BBC producer
• The 1963 Doctor Who Theme
• Undated newspaper article about Ron Grainer
• The opening and closing titles to An Unearthly Child

Also, once this week is over, I seriously need to not hear another version of the Doctor Who theme for at least a month.

…Christmas special in less than two weeks. Shit.

Well, at least there’s a nice long hiatus until the next series starts.

One Week One Band—Monday

• How I discovered radiophonics—an introduction
• The Tomorrow People
• Daphne Oram, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and excerpt from The Same Trade as Mozart
• The interior of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop studio
• Daphne Oram—”Pompie Ballet”

Welcome to those of you who came here by way of One Week One Band. I assure you the quality of content here at Hangingfire Central is, in general, nowhere near as high as it is over there, but I hope you enjoy it anyway if you decide to stick around. Also, if you’re reading this, hi Mom and Dad. Sorry about all the swearing around here.

Coming up: Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop

oneweekoneband:

Thank you, Ian!

Now for next week, we’ll cover a topic I’m really looking forward to (and know very little about…)

Karin Kross (who blogs at hangingfire.tumblr.com) will talk about English composer and electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire and her work (and those of her contemporaries) at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

Derbyshire famously arranged the Doctor Who theme, but with her work and influence extending far beyond that, she and her fellow composers at the Radiophonic Workshop—a sound effect studio of the BBC created in 1958—have frequently been cited as “the unsung heroes of British electronica.”

See you tomorrow!

— Hendrik

So this is a thing that I’ll be working on next week. Follow One Week One Band for more.