White Noise - Love Without Sound
White Noise was more of the project, not exactly a band. England's Delia Derbyshire and Brian Hodgson, who were making up weird sounds for the BBC radio shows at the time - 1969 - teamed up with David Vorhaus, an american bass player with a scientific mind. Together the came up with a music not yet heard by human ears, but enjoyed by martians regularly. The first British synthesizer, the EMS Synthi VCS3, was the latest whisper on the market, as it wasn't exactly a scream yet. These guys toyed with it and came up with a groundbreaking album entitled "An Electric Storm", which not many people understood, but which eventually changed the face of electronic music and influenced people like Orbital, Chemical Brothers, Aphex Twin, Secret Chiefs 3 and the list goes on and on.
Funny fact about the song above: "Love Without Sound, employed sped-up tape edits of Vorhaus playing the double bass to create violin and cello sounds." (Wiki)
Old school stuff, eh?
Delia was often called the "unsung heroine of (electronic) music". As it is customary, visionaries are rarely appreciated while still alive. It's only polite to praise them when they're dead and cannot blush any more.
Her most famous tune is the Dr Who theme. I have here an entire album of covers and versions of that song (Bill Bailey's version, "Dr Qui", is quite funny, despite the french or because of it). I'll just post her original track. More old school stuff and funny facts about this song: "She created it by recording the individual notes from electronic sources one by one onto magnetic tape, cutting the tape with a razor blade to get individual notes on little pieces of tape and sticking all the pieces of tape back together individually to make up the track and the process took weeks to complete." (source: this chick's blog. I'm just guessing it's a she because of the cat theme. Also, she works at BBC, so she must know something about something.)
Funny fact about the song above: "Love Without Sound, employed sped-up tape edits of Vorhaus playing the double bass to create violin and cello sounds." (Wiki)
Old school stuff, eh?
Delia was often called the "unsung heroine of (electronic) music". As it is customary, visionaries are rarely appreciated while still alive. It's only polite to praise them when they're dead and cannot blush any more.
Her most famous tune is the Dr Who theme. I have here an entire album of covers and versions of that song (Bill Bailey's version, "Dr Qui", is quite funny, despite the french or because of it). I'll just post her original track. More old school stuff and funny facts about this song: "She created it by recording the individual notes from electronic sources one by one onto magnetic tape, cutting the tape with a razor blade to get individual notes on little pieces of tape and sticking all the pieces of tape back together individually to make up the track and the process took weeks to complete." (source: this chick's blog. I'm just guessing it's a she because of the cat theme. Also, she works at BBC, so she must know something about something.)
Delia Derbyshire - Doctor Who Theme
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