As you may well know, I love to honour my adventurous ancestors in creative electronic music and sound who are still being uncovered and recognised. So I am grateful to be working on the heritage project by the Daphne Oram Trust called ‘Daphne Oram at 100: Pioneer of Electronic Sound and Music’.
This year long project celebrates Daphne Oram’s pioneering legacy in electronic music, activating her archive (stored at Goldsmiths in London) to raise awareness of her compositions, Oramics invention and role as a trailblazing woman in the music industry in England. The project is supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund.
I’m creating an education pack for schools with fellow music facilitator Maryam Jameela, which is intended as an inspiring, fun and flexible resource designed for use with children and young people between the ages of 7 and 14. We want to draw attention to Daphne Oram’s innovative work in the development of electronic music. Young people will interact with the heritage relating to Daphne Oram, including photos, letters, music, Daphne talking about electronic music, as well as fascinating diagrams and sketches of her Oramics machine invention.
We are also designing and delivering workshops with school children in Bradford at the National Science and Media Museum inspired by this pioneering electronic music composer, inventor and philosopher/thinker. Pupils will learn about electronic music through heritage, history and experimental music composition. Daphne also ran experimental electronic workshops for school children in Yorkshire in the late 1960’s, so we are excited to bring the spirit of Daphne’s work back to Yorkshire children.
Here’s a special podcast I made for Sound On Sound magazine to commemorate Daphne’s centenary celebrations…
New to the name, story and work of Daphne Oram? Here is a playlist I have put together as an introduction to the wonderful mind and work of this pioneer…
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