Oramics machine; Components and Accessories

PART OF:
Oramics Machine
Made:
1966 in England
maker:
Daphne Oram

Components and accessories from the Oramics machine, 1966, used to create electronic synthesized music and developed by Daphne Oram, co-founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

Daphne Oram was co-founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 1958. In the Oramics machine, both the sound generation and control over the musical parameters was achieved by making marks on transparent media: for generation by painting waveforms onto glass slides, and in control by marking 10 parallel 35mm filmstrips.

Details

Category:
Acoustics
Object Number:
2010-68/10
Materials:
film, metal (unknown) and electronic components
type:
component - object and synthesizer
credit:
Purchase - Department of Music, University of London