Daphne Oram
Daphne Blake Oram (31 December 1925 – 5 January 2003) was a British composer and electronic musician. She was one of the first British composers to produce electronic sound, and was an early practitioner of musique concrète in the UK. As a co-founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, she was central to the development of British electronic music. Her uncredited scoring work on the 1961 film The Innocents helped to pioneer the electronic soundtrack.
Daphne Oram | |
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| Birth name | Daphne Blake Oram |
| Born | 31 December 1925 Devizes, Wiltshire, England |
| Died | 5 January 2003 (aged 77) Maidstone, Kent, England |
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| Occupation(s) | Composer, electronic musician |
| Instrument(s) | Synthesiser |
Oram was the creator of the Oramics technique for graphical sound. She was the first woman to independently direct and set up a personal electronic music studio, and the first woman to design and construct an electronic musical instrument. In her book An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics (1971) she explored philosophical themes related to acoustics and electronic composition.