Delia was asked to make an atmospheric background sound (this was it) for a documentary about nomads hence Blue Vails and Golden Sands in the Sahara desert....what a masterpiece!.
It's the sound of depressed post war Britain imagining the mystery of the sands and a deeper connection with natural world. Pink Floyd later took the inspiration from this mode and made it their own. A very special person; if I could cal the shots in modern music awards, Delia would be in there. Imagination perfectly realised into sound.
I keep returning to this masterpiece. Best savored with a good pair of headphones and with eyes closed. To risk blasphemy, this might be even more ground breaking than the original Dr. Who theme. The sound scape is ultra realistic.
Delia's composition and work with both sound and specifically modulating voice should be mandatory material for all musical schools. (yes i realize that this is not playing with voice but do give a listen to passage of time she did)
Mesmerized by this. Not only the sounds she uses, the sonic sounds, the dynamics, but also how unsettling this feels, it's entrancing. The bell tones remind me of the Doctor Who TARDIS warning signal.
This is the closet thing to magic. What Delia sculpted here was beyond it's time & still sounds of the future now. I think only a few very special musicians & synthesists actually know how much genius a mortal being had to posses to have created this.
Man I just can't believe what Watkin Tudor Jones Jr. made me discover! The most avant-gardiste musician of her era Delia. Wow , I swear by the time I put her audio poetry called ''Sea'' 10 minutes ago, I was struck by an incredible amount of wierd emotions, really scary and mesmerizing at the same time. holy shit. I heard this previously in this life as a teenager in a car on the radio while tripping and it was traumatising for these voices gets in your head so much. This is awesome to know her now! Back then, I was sure the car radio was hunted and we couldn't turn it off because it was too intense to bare.
I have an album of BBC Radiophonic Workshop music and I would thoroughly recommend it. it features sleevenotes on how the music was made along with great photos of the workshop. For example, the chime at the start of this track is created by Deliah banging on a lampshade! (I imagine that it's a cool, 60s domed sort of thing) Also, the phrase 'blue veils and golden sands' makes me think of women in Burkhas in Taliban era Afghanistan, oppressed and sad.
What Really Gets me is that the Lessons she Taught are STILL Being Ignored today. These new Producers are given EVERYTHING to them on a Plate, & they STILL can't create Multi-Dynamics. Just a 1 Dynamic Brick Wall. Just full of Volume. Delia Invented Multi-Dynamics with "MONO!" And yet these new hot-shots can't create layers with 7.1 Channels? What a Joke! Delia, We know your Secrets. It's up to US to keep them out of the Hands of the Greedy Producers & Record Companies. WHO's with me?
Many will not listen, but i strongly suspect music masters (such as Mick Gordon) do and that is why their music can be good. after Watching Mick's GDC on changing the process to change the outcome i would've like to see his face when he did or will discover Delia's work and how she made it. Imagine the amazing things he'd do just based upon few of her songs.
I apologize for the ignorance of producing/sampling music without the use of Delia's techniques and it's required lessons that everyone allegedly tends to ignore.
Clearmenser is right (see above). When such a spirit goes away, we miss a lamp. She was grace in creation and human presence. This Blue Veils and Golden Sand is a pure jewel.
she puts all modern day djs to shame! mixing with magnetic tape! amazing, a real pioneer and an amazing character from what i can tell. i cant believe i have heard so little about her!
Wasn't this music used in the 1970 'Doctor Who' Story. 'Inferno' when the Doctor explains to Liz and the Brig about his trip into a parallel universe? Or was it used when he first arrives in said parallel universe?
Tape manipulation huh… now you can do similar stuff using a computer program in a matter of seconds. I can’t imagine how many hours it took her to cut and splice all those tapes and syncing them to tapes over tapes over tapes. Like that’s just something else. Mind you tape recording was new and part of the future. It was creating sounds that no one has ever heard of and it was just so tricky to get that exact sound you had in mind. A lot of experimentation went into stuff like this back in the 60’s it was just so different. Anyone who would listen to main stream music in the 60’s probably didn’t like this type of musical flow. It’s a shame really. All that peace and love they preached about was all bullshit. Mainstream huh…
@gobacktorussia I remember first seeing her name in print in the late 1970's creating the original Dr Who Theme shown all through the 60's & 70's. So obviously I've known of her for some time. Check out the internet how she created that recording using "musique concrete" techniques be prepared for an almighty brain explosion. She did not seek fame (not her style) & IMHO BBC seemed happy to exploit her work yet deny her PRS claims for one of THE most vital contribution evermade to futurist music.
has anyone put together a commercial reissue of any of these recordings, or are the arecane legalities of licesing at work because i cannot seem to find anything? this is tremendous stuff...
May I presume you live in a high latitudes where it's cold in winter? See I live in a semi arid area & have experienced dessert conditions. Interesting.
I like to think that the melody implies the goldens sands because of its grainy tone. While it's surrounded by a blue haze from the subtle metal percussion. Though there's also a high pitched whistling. And this harmonic counter melody.. it's like a woodwind instrument... Dunno!
@HELPTHEHOMELESS32 Delia Derbyshire died in 2001. Her longtime BBC Radiophonic Workshop colleague Brian Hodgson wrote a moving obituary for the Guardian, which you can easily find if you Google her name.
Last post was 1 mo. ago, and thats real sad! This music is so great! Does any brilliant techno-lovin computer genius know how to loop these vids? Because her songs are really succinct and witty, you cant really groove to 'em. Or, maybe they're not meant to be danced to???
You can probably either download it and loop it in Audacity (free audio manipulation program, it's really useful), or look up UA-cam on repeat. I forget what the website I found for it was.
THE founding goddess of electronic music. The world is less without her.
Delia was asked to make an atmospheric background sound (this was it) for a documentary about nomads hence Blue Vails and Golden Sands in the Sahara desert....what a masterpiece!.
Like the Doctor, she was light years ahead. A creative genius.
She is the Doctor, waiting for her Tardis
Rest in Peace. One of the groundbreaking influences for modern music.
It's the sound of depressed post war Britain imagining the mystery of the sands and a deeper connection with natural world. Pink Floyd later took the inspiration from this mode and made it their own. A very special person; if I could cal the shots in modern music awards, Delia would be in there. Imagination perfectly realised into sound.
I keep returning to this masterpiece. Best savored with a good pair of headphones and with eyes closed.
To risk blasphemy, this might be even more ground breaking than the original Dr. Who theme.
The sound scape is ultra realistic.
Delia's composition and work with both sound and specifically modulating voice should be mandatory material for all musical schools.
(yes i realize that this is not playing with voice but do give a listen to passage of time she did)
She actually is using her voice here as well, apparently
Mesmerized by this. Not only the sounds she uses, the sonic sounds, the dynamics, but also how unsettling this feels, it's entrancing. The bell tones remind me of the Doctor Who TARDIS warning signal.
My favorite #DeliaDerbyshire track--cosmic, haunting, magical, mysterious.
Swirling mirage of distant ghostly figures in the searing white desert heat, moving closer & closer
There are no words...just brilliant
Stunning- and inspirational. I should play this daily to remind myself what electronic music SHOULD sound like…
This is the closet thing to magic. What Delia sculpted here was beyond it's time & still sounds of the future now.
I think only a few very special musicians & synthesists actually know how much genius a mortal being had to posses to have created this.
She was a genius. Thank you for sharing this.
Man I just can't believe what Watkin Tudor Jones Jr. made me discover! The most avant-gardiste musician of her era Delia. Wow , I swear by the time I put her audio poetry called ''Sea'' 10 minutes ago, I was struck by an incredible amount of wierd emotions, really scary and mesmerizing at the same time. holy shit. I heard this previously in this life as a teenager in a car on the radio while tripping and it was traumatising for these voices gets in your head so much. This is awesome to know her now! Back then, I was sure the car radio was hunted and we couldn't turn it off because it was too intense to bare.
I discovered Delia through doctor who, but really? that watkin tudor jones? like of die antwoord?
It's just sublime with a real vibe.
I have an album of BBC Radiophonic Workshop music and I would thoroughly recommend it. it features sleevenotes on how the music was made along with great photos of the workshop. For example, the chime at the start of this track is created by Deliah banging on a lampshade! (I imagine that it's a cool, 60s domed sort of thing)
Also, the phrase 'blue veils and golden sands' makes me think of women in Burkhas in Taliban era Afghanistan, oppressed and sad.
Unfortunate, the taliban came back :c
Amazing tones and soundscapes.
Christ Delia was innovative & cool, so forward thinking we are still trying to catch up!
Absolutely gorgeous
this sends chills up my spine
Sniff,Trellion,Third Person,Figment aka Hooded figure brought me here. Big ups to Sheffield and the whole shadow people squadron.
can't stop playing this...
1:09 to 1:22 & 2:50
I honestly love that truly iconic Lampshade of her's
And there was the void, and she said "Let Sound Be" and sound was
Her own voice and oscillators.Nothing else
There's no so much to say. Just brilliant!
What Really Gets me is that the Lessons she Taught are STILL Being Ignored today. These new Producers are given EVERYTHING to them on a Plate, & they STILL can't create Multi-Dynamics. Just a 1 Dynamic Brick Wall. Just full of Volume.
Delia Invented Multi-Dynamics with "MONO!" And yet these new hot-shots can't create layers with 7.1 Channels? What a Joke!
Delia, We know your Secrets. It's up to US to keep them out of the Hands of the Greedy Producers & Record Companies.
WHO's with me?
Many will not listen, but i strongly suspect music masters (such as Mick Gordon) do and that is why their music can be good. after Watching Mick's GDC on changing the process to change the outcome i would've like to see his face when he did or will discover Delia's work and how she made it.
Imagine the amazing things he'd do just based upon few of her songs.
I apologize for the ignorance of producing/sampling music without the use of Delia's techniques and it's required lessons that everyone allegedly tends to ignore.
Clearmenser is right (see above). When such a spirit goes away, we miss a lamp. She was grace in creation and human presence. This Blue Veils and Golden Sand is a pure jewel.
I guess there is an audio play under this title about Delia. Found a listing for it on a wander through on of the Doctor Who wikis. Glad I found this.
one Super-cool chic!!
Goosebumps
beautiful sounds
ambient at its finest
she puts all modern day djs to shame! mixing with magnetic tape! amazing, a real pioneer and an amazing character from what i can tell. i cant believe i have heard so little about her!
cold cold as the night
Amazing.
R.I.P.
I was a teenager at the end of the reel-to-reel era
thx a million for this marvel ...
The desert, cicadas and a factory hum
Fascinante mujer!
I like this song when it wass on my favorite Doctor Who episode The Edge of Destruction
She used her lampshade to make this one.
I love her! Deron
when I grow up I want to make music like this
The new series should use some of this to replace that awful orchestra racket!!
tanpiltanpil it looks like they took your advice!
Segun Akinola’s electronic music is approximately atmospheric.
Great tune. Imagine what Skynrd would have sounded like with her in the band.
"Turn it up"
Lynyrd Skykyrd? That lousy and terribly boring band wouldn't deserve her being their sidekick.
Imagine what Just Beiber would have sounded like with her in the band.
hey man this comment still fucking rules just wanted to let you know
What a woman !
Reminds me of kickboxer training in the ruins
awesome
me, drunk at a party and in control of the music, halloween 2016: everybody shut the fuck up and listen to this.
Nicely put
Just look at the equipment they were working with. Unbelievable.
Wasn't this music used in the 1970 'Doctor Who' Story. 'Inferno' when the Doctor explains to Liz and the Brig about his trip into a parallel universe?
Or was it used when he first arrives in said parallel universe?
Cheers, Mylar. =D
Trip.
❤❤
Tape manipulation huh… now you can do similar stuff using a computer program in a matter of seconds.
I can’t imagine how many hours it took her to cut and splice all those tapes and syncing them to tapes over tapes over tapes. Like that’s just something else.
Mind you tape recording was new and part of the future. It was creating sounds that no one has ever heard of and it was just so tricky to get that exact sound you had in mind. A lot of experimentation went into stuff like this back in the 60’s it was just so different.
Anyone who would listen to main stream music in the 60’s probably didn’t like this type of musical flow. It’s a shame really. All that peace and love they preached about was all bullshit. Mainstream huh…
September is wondering..
@gobacktorussia I remember first seeing her name in print in the late 1970's creating the original Dr Who Theme shown all through the 60's & 70's. So obviously I've known of her for some time. Check out the internet how she created that recording using "musique concrete" techniques be prepared for an almighty brain explosion. She did not seek fame (not her style) & IMHO BBC seemed happy to exploit her work yet deny her PRS claims for one of THE most vital contribution evermade to futurist music.
has anyone put together a commercial reissue of any of these recordings, or are the arecane legalities of licesing at work because i cannot seem to find anything? this is tremendous stuff...
May I presume you live in a high latitudes where it's cold in winter? See I live in a semi arid area & have experienced dessert conditions. Interesting.
trespire I am of the Sonoran desert genii.
Madlib sampled this for the Freddie Gibbs beat Real
is it blue or gold?
+Vlad Sporea it shimmers, whatever color it is.
I like to think that the melody implies the goldens sands because of its grainy tone.
While it's surrounded by a blue haze from the subtle metal percussion.
Though there's also a high pitched whistling. And this harmonic counter melody.. it's like a woodwind instrument... Dunno!
+Vlad Sporea ... The dress?
This is underrated
@@thimkthimk sounds a lot like to me the burning heat of the desert sun during the middle of the day
Where are all these clips from? Is there a CD available?
@HELPTHEHOMELESS32 Delia Derbyshire died in 2001. Her longtime BBC Radiophonic Workshop colleague Brian Hodgson wrote a moving obituary for the Guardian, which you can easily find if you Google her name.
@HELPTHEHOMELESS32 I'm afraid Delia passed away in the early 90s.
****** six stars ? is it possible ... YES !
This was in "Inferno," wasn't it?
Last post was 1 mo. ago, and thats real sad! This music is so great! Does any brilliant techno-lovin computer genius know how to loop these vids? Because her songs are really succinct and witty, you cant really groove to 'em. Or, maybe they're not meant to be danced to???
You can probably either download it and loop it in Audacity (free audio manipulation program, it's really useful), or look up UA-cam on repeat. I forget what the website I found for it was.
RISE UP BROTHER!!!!!!!!!!!!1
@MrSirMrSirMr 2001, in fact.
gave me a headache lol
Pink Flamingo
Sampling this
Help, er yes she is. If you know anything about her you''d not pay your respect in this manner, so calm down.
*IVO`s MAGIC WORLD* presents *MUSIC HISTORY GUIDE - FAMOUS BIRTHS* - *DELIA ANN DERBYSHIRE - 70th Anniversary her Birth, Today!!!* *(MaY 5th, 2017)*
DR WHO INFERNO