Oramics machine components

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

Box of parts associated with Oramics machine, 1966, used to create electronic synthesized music and developed by Daphne Oram, co-founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. The parts include a regulated power supply probably for digitally controlled oscillator/ wave scanner +/- 33Volts, mains and signal cables, and various loose components.

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:
2010-68/11
type:
components
credit:
Purchase - Department of Music, Goldsmiths University of London