Over the next seven days leading up to International Women's Day, we will be talking about pioneer women in electronic music.
For the first of our series of blogs about female pioneers of audio recording and electronic music, we pay tribute to ‘Sculptress of Sound’ Delia Derbyshire.
The ‘woman behind the wobbulator’ worked briefly for the United Nations in Geneva following her rejected application for Decca Recording Studios in London (they ‘did not employ women in [their] recording studios’) but despite being knocked back by various companies she continued to pursue her passion which would eventually lead her to land an opportunity with the BBC in 1960 as a trainee assistant studio manager...
