Daphne Oram: An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics

Daphne Oram helped spark a modern electronic music era through pioneering sound technology and fearless experimentation.

Daphne Oram (1925–2003) was one of the central figures in the development of British experimental electronic music. Having declined a place at the Royal College of Music to become a music balancer at the BBC, she went on to become the cofounder and first director of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Oram left the BBC in 1959 to pursue commercial work in television, advertising...