Day three brings us to the creator of ‘Ormamics’, Daphne Oram.
Although being offered a place at the Royal College of Music in 1947 she instead chose to take up a position as a Junior Studio Engineer at the BBC and it is here where she began experimenting with tape recorders and pursuing possibilities of synthetic sounds. In the 1950s, following a trip to the famous RTF studios in Paris, Oram used her new Studio Manager status to campaign for the BBC to provide electronic music facilities for composing sounds and music for use in its programming. This led her to set up the ‘Radiophonic Workshop’, dedicated to researching and creating electronic sounds. A year later she installed her ‘Oramics Studios for Electronic Composition’ in a building near Kent (once used for drying oats!)...
