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| + | In 1967 Delia is credited as the co-writer of the track [[Firebird]] with David Vorhaus and Brian Hodgson for the 1968 album ''[[An Electric Storm]]'', though I gather that Delia actually wrote it s few years earlier and dug it out for the album.<ref>I forget where I heard that - maybe from [[James Percival]] or in [[James Percival's thesis|his thesis]].</ref> |
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| − | Her long-term partner [[Clive Blackburn]] says:
| + | The second song recorded by White Noise.<ref name=jayedelman>jayedelman's [http://www.oocities.org/jayedelman/whitenoise.html ''An Electronic Storm - The White Noise''] on geocities.com</ref> |
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| − | "After Delia's death [...] I cleared the house and removed all of the tapes from the attic, then drove down to London and handed them over to Brian, together with all of the papers I had found which were related to her music. [[Brian Hodgson|Brian]] then passed all of this on to [[Mark Ayres]], the Radiophonic Workshop archivist."<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1318696458186867&id=169766083079916 Comment] on facebook.com</ref>
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| − | and [[Mark Ayres]] says:
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| − | “When Delia died, her partner Clive discovered all these boxes
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| − | in her attic, just numbers of tea chests and cardboard boxes all falling
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| − | to bits, all full of tapes which one day had sticky labels on them but
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| − | all the sticky labels had fallen off and were at the bottom of the boxes
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| − | so we were just left with hundreds of reels of tapes and the labels,
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| − | so it was a real jigsaw puzzle.
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| − | Initially Brian Hodgson took delivery of the tapes
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| − | [...] and he weeded out a lot of stuff because, basically, Delia
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| − | seemed to have, when she left the BBC, just emptied her studio into
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| − | the back of a car so a lot of them were either blank tapes or just echo
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| − | tapes and just bits of edits which weren't going anywhere or duplicates
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| − | of things we already had. So Brian did an initial sort of weed through
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| − | but I still ended up with about 300 reels of tapes.”
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| − | <ref>[[Mark Ayres]] speaking in the [[Sculptress of Sound]] BBC TV programme.</ref><ref>Mark speaks again about the Attic Tapes in [http://www.radionz.co.nz/concert/programmes/hopefulmachines/20130910 an interview made for ''These Hopeful Machines''].</ref>
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| − | while [[Breege Brennan]] summarises:
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| − | “When Derbyshire left the BBC in 1973, she emptied boxes of papers and tapes from her office into her car. They remained untouched in her attic. ... Following her death, Brian Hodgson suggested to Clive Blackburn, Derbyshire's partner, that Ayres be appointed to catalogue the almost 300 tapes.
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| − | Ayres returned to the Radiophonic Workshop Archive anything that belonged to it. However, that was just the beginning of a long, unfinished process. The problem was two-fold. On any one tape, there were pieces from separate, and usually different projects. Secondly, the tapes were improperly stored, and the sticky labels fell off. So any one box could have 30 tapes and hundreds of labels in the bottom of the box. There were nearly 300 tapes and the cataloguing alone would take at least six months.”<ref>[[Breege Brennan's thesis]]</ref>
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| − | In March 2008<ref>BBC article [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7512072.stm Lost tapes of the Dr Who composer], 18th July 2008</ref> Mark gave them on permanent loan to Manchester University in the care of Dr [[David Butler]].
| + | =Credits= |
| | + | Co-writers: Delia and [[David Vorhaus]] |
| | + | Vocals: [[John Whitman]]<ref name=jayedelman/> |
| | + | Backing vocals: [[Lisa Pollack]]<ref name=jayedelman/> |
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| − | They were almost all digitized by [[Louis Niebur]] and [[David Butler]]<ref>In ''[[Delia Derbyshire's Creative Process]]'', p.11, James Percival attributes the digitization to Mark Ayres and Louis Niebur, but without giving a source for the claim.</ref> in the summer of 2007<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100630231421/http://www.novars.manchester.ac.uk/research/delia/index.html The web page for the first Delian presentation on novars.manchester.ac.uk].</ref> by playing them on a 1960s Studer A80 tape machine lent by the BBC's Manchester studios.<ref>http://philosophyofscienceportal.blogspot.it/2008/07/delia-derbyshire-revival-for-dr-who.html</ref>
| + | =Copyright= |
| | + | The Performing Rights Society's list of works by Delia Ann Derbyshire has: |
| | + | <PRE> |
| | + | Title:Firebird |
| | + | Writer(s): Derbyshire, Delia Ann; Vorhaus, David Glyn |
| | + | Publisher: Island Music Ltd |
| | + | </PRE> |
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| − | They contain the audio for dozens of pieces of Delia's music that were believed lost, including at least one [[Macbeth]]<ref>Heard by [[Martin Guy]] during a personal visit to Manchester in 2010.</ref>, the medleys she made for the [[ICI Fashion Show]] and the [[Brighton Festival]]<ref>[http://researchnovars.blogspot.com/2009/04/to-independent-listener-delia.html]</ref>, [[Le Pont Mirabeau]]<ref>Message from [[James Percival]] in the Delia Derbshire mailing list.</ref>, for [[Hamlet]], [[Medea]] and [[Raven and Dove]]<ref>[http://www.novars.manchester.ac.uk/research/delia/english_html/img11.html Slide 11 of 2007 presentation ''The Delia Derbyshire Archive'' at Manchester University]</ref>, but in the years since they were digitized, nothing has been published.
| + | =Duration= |
| | + | 2:43 on vinyl, 3:00 on CD. |
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| − | =Contents= | + | =[[Spectrogram]]= |
| − | There are two catalogues of the tapes:
| + | On CD:<BR> |
| − | * Mark Ayres' [[Initial Catalogue]] numbers them DD123 and records the labels on them and gives a brief description of each. There is a summary on the page [[DD]].
| + | {{Spectrogram|Firebird - Spectrogram}} |
| − | * The [http://archives.li.man.ac.uk/ead/html/gb133dda-p6.shtml#id3936767 John Rylands Library's catalogue] says "This material is currently uncatalogued. A provisional list may be viewed in person at the Library". In fact, they have been catalogued as CDD/1/2/3 and so on, as listed in [[James Percival's thesis]] but the library catalogue hasn't caught up yet.
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| − | =See also=
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| − | There are hundreds more tapes of unpublished Delian work at the BBC, listed here on page [[TRW]].
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| | =Availability= | | =Availability= |
| − | * From 2008 to 2016 you had to go and sit in David Butler's office while he played them to you on his laptop. | + | * Released on the album ''[[An Electric Storm]]'' |
| − | * In early 2014, the university was given money to set up listening stations in the university library.<ref>[[David Butler]] in [https://deliaderbyshireday.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/dd-day-2014-trailer-latest-news-about-the-delia-derbyshire-archive/ the pre-Delia Derbyshire Day 2014 interview]</ref> They eventually appeared in early 2016. Anyone over the age of 18<ref>[http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/special-collections/using-the-special-collections/ John Rylands Library: ''Using the Special Collections'']</ref> should now be able to listen to them by going in person to the [http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/special-collections/ John Rylands Library] at the University of Manchester.<ref>[https://rylandscollections.wordpress.com/2016/02/16/listening-to-the-delia-derbyshire-archive/ ''Listening to the Delia Derbyshire Archive''] on the John Rylands Library Special Collections Blog.</ref>
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| − | =References=
| + | [[Category:Piece]] |
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