[sdiy] Attention all Delia Derbyshire worshippers

[Peter Snow]

> ....except for BBC America, which is horrible since they stopped playing
> Father Ted....

ARSE!!!!!!!

(sorry, I couldn't resist)


nN AAt e e wrote:
> 
> > > British people in particular should be interested in this. For those who
> > > don't know, Delia Derbyshire is one of the more pivotal and yet least
> > > known characters in early electronic music. Initially, she WAS the BBC
> > > radiophonic workshop.
> >
> > > It pretty much annoys me that with so few women working in this field,
> one
> > > of the early pioneers was in fact female and yet through a combination
> of
> > > sexism and stupidity, has been swept under the historical carpet.
> 
> as an American [living in Massachusetts, about as close to the UK as one
> could possibly get in the US], i had never even heard of the Radiophonic
> Workshop until the recent [late spring?] documentary on the BBC. even then,
> all i knew was what was posted on the website, since i dont get any of the
> BBC except for BBC America, which is horrible since they stopped playing
> Father Ted....
> 
> anyway, like steve said, the women in this field havnt been swept under the
> carpet, they have been forgotten. i would think that not many people who are
> british would even know who she is even if they are into electronic music.
> 
> think of this point: wendy carlos is still alive, [arguably] made moog
> famous, but go ask any person on the streets, even old enough to remember
> clockwork orange coming out, and would they know who she is? i know plenty
> of people who are into all sorts of electronic music, but do they know who
> Kraftwerk are? no. they dont.
> 
> the pioneers are remembered by the people who are the people doing the same
> things in current times.
> 
> - nate - www.robot-dreams.com/sd/ - pervertcore
> 
> my name is nathan. im seventeen. and i probably just told you things you
> already knew.