Daphne Oram - Oramics

Paradigm Discs 2007

Disc 1:

01 Introduction

02 Power Tools

03 Bird Of Parallax

04 In A Jazz Style

05 Purring Interlude

06 Contrasts Essconic

07 Lego Builds It

08 Pompie Ballet (Excerpt)

09 Intertel

10 Adwick High School No.1

11 Look At Oramics

12 Rotolock

13Purple Dust

14 High Speed Flight

15 Studio Experiment No.1

16 Four Aspects

17 Kia Ora

18 Dr. Faustus Suite

19 Adwick High School No.2

20 Tumblewash

21 Studio Experiment No.2

22 Snow

Disc 2:

01 Rockets In Ursa Major (Excerpt 1)

02 Food Preservation

03 Studio Experiment No.3

04 Bala

05 Episode Metallic

06 Studio Experiment No.4

07 Adwick High School No.3

08 Fanfare Of Graphs

09 Studio Experiment No.5

10 Brocilliande

11 Mary Had A Little Lamb

12 Incidental Music For Invasion (Excerpts)

13 Costain Suite

14 Rockets In Ursa Major (Excerpt 2)

15 Passacaglia

16 Missile Away

17 Pulse Persephone

18 Adwick High School No.4

19 Nestea

20 Rockets In Ursa Major (Excerpt 3)

21 Conclusion

22 Studio Jinks

Essentially the first album to compile the work of electronic innovator Daphne Oram, this title is now out of print.

Besides co-founding the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, inventing electronic musical instruments, pioneering musique concrete and inventing Oramics, (there really isn't enough space to list her achievements), Daphne Oram left behind some startling music.

This compilation collects together sounds from her career; sound effects, original music, advertising, experiments...it really only scratches the surface, but it's a good introduction.

I really can't recommend enough looking further into the music and writings of the remarkable Daphne Oram.