An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics - Grand Format

Daphne Oram (1925-2003) was a British pioneer of electronic music and sound. She was the first Director of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, which she co-founded in 1958, and went on to compose and create soundtracks to many television and radio programmes, films and adverts as well as concert and performance pieces. After leaving the BBC, Oram devoted many years to building the Oramics machine, a unique 'optical' synthesizer that allows the user to paint and draw audio waveforms.
Long thought to be lost, the Oramics machine was rediscovered in 2009. The restored machine was displayed in London's Science Museum, where it has inspired a new generation of electronic musicians, composers and makers. In 1972 Oram wrote An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics, a treatise on electronic sound and music that provides a fascinating glimpse into the creative mind behind the Oramics machine.
In this engaging account of the possibilities of electronic sound, Oram touches on acoustics, mathematics, cybernetics and esoteric thought, but always returns to the human, urging us to 'see whether we can break open watertight compartments and glance anew' at the world around us. This new edition of An Individual Note brings Oram's singular vision back into print, with an updated design, additional archive images, and a new introduction by composer, roboticist and sound historian Sarah Angliss.