Ne vous fiez pas aux apparences de Daphne Oram (1925-2003), cette Lady anglaise cache bien son jeu et son mélange de musique électronique/musique concrète et de ce qui ne se nommait pas encore "ambient" mérite que l'on y jette une oreille.
Il y a un côté "Manhattan Research Center" de Raymond Scott, le grain si particulier des appareils de cette époque. Certaines pièces me font penser à "The Residents".
"Oramics" vient d'être ré-édite en un quadruple vinyl.
Voici les principes des "Oramics"
The technique of Oramics was developed by Daphne Oram, an electronic composer working at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, in England from 1959 onwards. It consisted of drawing onto a set of ten sprocketed synchronised strips of 35mm film which covered a series of photo-electric cells that in turn generated an electrical charge to control the sound fequency, timbre, amplitude and duration. This technique was similar to the work of Yevgeny Sholpo's "Variophone" some years earlier in Leningrad and in some ways to the punch-roll system of the RCA Synthesiser. The output from the instrument was only monophonic relying on multitrack tape recording to build up polyphonic textures.
The attraction of this technique was a direct relation of a graphic image to the audio signal and even though the system was monophonic the flexibility of control over the nuances of sound production was unmatched in all but the most sophisticated analogue voltage controlled synthesisers.
Daphne Oram continued to use the process throughout the sixties producing work for film and theatre including; "Rockets in Ursa Major"(1962), "Hamlet"(1963) and "Purple Dust" (1964).
Quelques courts extraits sur le site de Boomkat et des extraits plus long et plus nombreux ici.
Jofree
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27 Juin 2010 à 12:55
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Sinon là...
"To boldly go where no man has gone before."
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Merci Kumo, me pencherai là-dessus !
Là, le Fact Mix 103 par King Midas Sound, pure selecta :
Citation :
King Midas Sound – Sometimes (Waiting For You/Hyperdub)
Lovejoys – All I Can Say (Reggae Vibes/Wackies)
15/16/17 – The Weather (Magic Touch/DEB)
Burial – Night Bus (Burial/Hyperdub)
Little Dragon – Twice (Little Dragon/Peacefrog)
The Dynamics – 90% of me is you (Version Excursions/Points South)
Tanya Stephens – It’s A Pity (Gangsta Blues/VP)
Jacob Miller – Baby I Love You So (Who Say Jah No Dread/Greensleeves)
Gregory Isaacs – I’m Alright (Cool Down/VP)
Wayne Jarrett – Live&Love (Horace Andy Meets Naggo Morris & Wayne Jarrett/Wackies)
Sade – Lovers Rock (Lovers Rock/Epic)
Rhythm & Sound ft Lovejoy – Best Friend (With the Artists/Burial Mix)
Larry Heard – Missing dub (Theo Parrish remix) (Missing You/Track Mode)
Vincent Gallo – Lonely (When/Warp)
A.R.Kane – Madonna is with child (69/Rough Trade)
Scritti Politti – Sweetest Girl (/Rough Trade)
Lloyd Chambers – Dry Your Tears (Firehouse Revolution/Pressure Sounds)
King Midas Sound – i Dub (Dub Heavy/Hyperdub)
Scientist ft Johnny Osbourne – In Your Eyes (Wins The World Cup/Greensleeves)
King Midas Sound – Outtaspace (Slow Motion mix) (Waiting For You/Hyperdub)
Japan – Ghosts (Tin Drum/Virgin)
Kevin Shields – Ikebana (Lost In Translation s/t/Emperor norton)
King Midas Sound – One Ting (Dabrye remix) (Cool Out/Hyperdub)
Oval – Do While (94diskont/Mille Plateaux)
Thomas Koner – Kanon (Isolationism/Virgin)
My Bloody Valentine – Touched (Loveless/creation)
C'est presque rageant que ce soit le rappeur le plus caricatural et antipathique qui ait autant de talent (pour les sceptiques, je peux vous filer les 10 pages de décorticage dans La Nouvelle Revue Française)...
Kalawax, je suis pas sceptique mais j'aimerais bien lire le truc de la NRF, j'arrive pas à le trouver sur le net.
Un petit lien MU serait la bienvenue...
