Giganten in de elektronische- muziek. Het is onvoorstelbaar welk monnikenwerk en creativiteit nodig was midden jaren 60 elektronische muziek te maken zoals thema: Dr. Who. Tijden waarin middelen/gereedschappen minder voorhanden waren om unieke gevarieerdheid te creëren. Tegenwoordig is het de kunst uit de vele gereedschappen unieke eenvoud terug te vinden. Dit alles toen en nu door het vak in en uit te beheersen.
Delia Derbyshire:
Citaat uit documentaire:
"Even today with all modern instruments and keyboards at our disposal it is impossible to actually replicate what Derbyshire did in the most basic of terms."
Wiki:
"The original 1963 recording of the Doctor Who theme music is widely regarded as a significant and innovative piece of electronic music, recorded well before the availability of commercial synthesisers. Delia Derbyshire (assisted by Dick Mills) of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop used musique concrète techniques to realise a score written by composer Ron Grainer. Each note was individually created by cutting, splicing, speeding up and slowing down segments of analogue tape containing recordings of a single plucked string, white noise, and the simple harmonic waveforms of test-tone oscillators which were used for calibrating equipment and rooms, not creating music.... Wiki"
Documentaire Dr Who Theme:
Radio Interview:
https://youtu.be/2-Fw5aTz_2I
Wendy Carlos:
Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos, November 14, 1939) is an American musician and composer best known for her electronic music and film scores. Born and raised in Rhode Island, Carlos studied physics and music at Brown University before moving to New York City in 1962 to study music composition at Columbia University. Studying and working with various electronic musicians and technicians at the city's Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, she helped in the development of the Moog synthesizer, the first commercially available keyboard instrument created by Robert Moog.
(enigste van de drie gepresenteerd die nog leeft)
Wiki:
"Among the instruments Carlos used for the score include a "spectrum follower", a prototype of a vocoder that converted the human voice into electronic signals that mirror the original note that has been played. Since the Ninth Symphony has a chorale section in the finale, Carlos felt it was an appropriate challenge for the new device. When the film version was announced Carlos and producer Rachel Elkind made a demonstration recording for Kubrick, who became interested and invited them to meet ...Wiki"
(weet niet geheel zeker of bovenstaande versie van Carlos is of het is een zeer goede cover)
BBC Interview:
https://youtu.be/Z3cab5IcCy8
Origineel door Henry Purcell (Funeral of Queen Mary):
De klassieke versie van jong overleden Henry Purcell 1659-1695 een monument op zichzelf, Wiki.