TalkToTheChip

In episode 28 of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore discuss works by female British composer Delia Derbyshire: Blue Veils and Golden Sands and Circle of Light

This is the second of two episodes devoted to this pivotal composer's lesser known works.

Blue Veils and Golden Sands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh86LtuuY4U

https://wikidelia.net/wiki/Blue_Veils_and_Golden_Sands

Circle of Light
https://deliaderbyshire.bandcamp.com/album/circle-of-light

https://wikidelia.net/wiki/Circle_of_Light

More info:

https://wikidelia.net/wiki/The_Delian_Mode

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Stansfield

https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/pamela-bone-quietly-radical-photographer

https://wikidelia.net/wiki/BBC_Radiophonic_Music

https://deepcutswrites.substack.com/p/delia-derbyshire-a-tape-looping-pioneer

RBMA 2010 Delia Derbyshire from 37min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTRt8gTbdRw

In episode 27 of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore discuss a work by female British composer Delia Derbyshire: The Delian Mode

This is the first of two episodes devoted to this pivotal composer's lesser known works.

Listen to The Delian Mode here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OaBmaFK4kI

Useful links:

https://wikidelia.net/wiki/The_Delian_Mode

https://djmag.com/news/electronic-music-pioneer-delia-derbyshire-honoured-building-coventry-university

1997 Interview 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-Fw5aTz_2I

Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXnmSgaeGAI

1969 'Sky At Night' special 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/webarchive/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Farchive%2Fthe-sky-at-night-special--1969-year-of-space%2Fzjw68xs

https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/100-voices/pioneering-women/women-of-the-workshop/delia-derbyshire

Out of This World 

https://www.discogs.com/master/207871-BBC-Radiophonic-Workshop-Out-Of-This-World-Atmospheric-Sounds-And-Effects-From-The-BBC-Radiophonic-W

In episode 26 of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore get together for the first time with a guest, Icelandic composer, guitarist and sound artist Rikhardur H. Fridriksson to discuss a work by an Icelandic pioneer of electronic music: "Elektrónísk stúdía (e. Electronic Study"), musique concrète compositions, composed between 1951 – 1962. by Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson.
 
Listen to "Elektrónísk stúdía" here:
https://soundcloud.com/magnusblondaljohannsson/sets/elektronisk-studia
 
Useful links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magn%C3%BAs_Bl%C3%B6ndal_J%C3%B3hannsson
https://monoskop.org/Rikhardur_H._Fridriksson
https://smekkleysa.net/shop/smekkleysa_cd/electronic/magnus-blondal-johannsson-elektronisk-studia/
https://nordische-filmtage.de/en/programm/movie/view/2009/1028.html
https://www.nts.live/artists/58146-magnus-blondal-johannsszon
https://www.islandpaafilm.dk/is/film/surtur-fer-sunnan
https://en.sinfonia.is/concerts-tickets/works/magnus-blondal-johannsson-adagio
https://www.islandpaafilm.dk/is/film/eldur-i-heimaey
https://www.musik.is/BjarkiSve/Phd/Sidur/209-214.html (Icelandic)

In episode 25 of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore discuss Music On A Long Thin Wire (1977-1980) by Alvin Lucier: a milestone in Sound Art.

Listen to Music On A Long Thin Wire here:

https://alvinlucierlovely.bandcamp.com/album/music-on-a-long-thin-wire
 
more info:

http://www.lovely.com/albumnotes/notes1011.html

https://www.britannica.com/art/monochord

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_On_A_Long_Thin_Wire

https://www.discogs.com/release/757891-Alvin-Lucier-Music-On-A-Long-Thin-Wire

https://archives.nypl.org/mus/23034
 
https://direct.mit.edu/lmj/article-abstract/doi/10.1162/LMJ_a_00110/63533/Music-on-a-Long-Thin-Wire?redirectedFrom=fulltext
 
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/c/conceptual-art

https://rhodridavies.com/

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/apr/09/alvin-lucier-dead-composer-making-music-ai-artificial-intelligence-brain
 
https://insheepsclothinghifi.com/david-behrman-in-his-own-words/

Professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore dedicate a second episode to Oramics, a 44 track collection of works by groundbreaking British composer Daphne Oram

Listen to Oramics here:

https://daphneoram.bandcamp.com/album/oramics

Further links:

https://www.fbrt.org.uk/hermes/new-atlantis/

https://www.roland.com/uk/blog/what-is-a-vocoder/

https://www.daphneoram.org/oramicsmachine/
https://www.daphneoram.org/wire330/
https://www.gold.ac.uk/ems/oram/
https://ra.co/features/1305
https://www.daphneoram.org/stillpoint/

https://warp.net/artists/boards-of-canada