Difference between pages "BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective" and "Science Serves the Arts"

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Delia's papers include her score dated July 1962 for ''[[Science Serves the Arts]]'', a science series for 6th formers produced by Lawrie Lawler.<ref name=genome/>
  
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[[The BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective]] is a 2008 album of music from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
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We don't know if this was a theme music for all the programmes, or a special insert for the first programme about Science and Music. By a strange coincidence, the programme interviews [[Tristram Cary]] as a renowned electronic music composer and someone Delia would meet five years later at [[Unit Delta Plus]].
  
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It is interesting because it contains Phil Young's ''Science and Industry'' from which Delia's [[Arabic Science and Industry]] took inspiration, and publishes for the first time a second piece of music by Delia for the programme [[Time On Our Hands]]: some incidental music here called "[[City Music]]".
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From the manuscript, the piece is a strange mixture of 3/4 and 4/4 bars, while along the top of page 1 appears the most hackneyed chord sequence in Western popular music, the "Blues" sequence C-C-F-C-G-F-C-C.
  
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Sadly, it also includes Mark Ayres' "stereo remix" of [[Dance from Noah]], with the rhythm track from a different work alone blasting out at the start.
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=Episodes=
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As listed in the ''Radio Times'':<ref name=genome/>
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==1: Science and Music==
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Among the multitude of new scientific developments artists are finding many which help them in their work. JOHN BORWICK discusses with TRISTRAM CARY the use a modern composer makes of electronic equipment to increase his range of sounds and whether he is influenced by modern recording techniques.
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==2: The Anatomy of Painting==
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Many modern art galleries have their own laboratories. Here scientific techniques are used to probe beneath the surface of old paintings and rediscover the methods and materials used by the masters of the past.
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<BR>MICHAEL HECKFORD shows some examples of these techniques and explains how a modern artist uses the technical advances of his own times to help him broaden the scope of his work.
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==3: Translation By Machine==
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Modern communications are turning the world into a Tower of Babel, and yet few people speak more than one language. DONALD BOOTH describes how science is trying to help not only the translator but those research workers engaged in analysing great writings of the past.
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==4: The Paper Problem==
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As the world becomes educated an avalanche of printed paper is engulfing libraries. Donald Booth shows how the new National Lending Library is tackling the problem.
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==5: Revealing the Past==
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The art of the historian is based on analysing the evidence from manuscripts, relics, and archaeological sites. This analysis is now helped by new scientific techniques. BRIAN HOPE-TAYLOR chooses the Anglo-Saxon period to illustrate some of. them.
  
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=Track list=
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=Papers=
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of works by Delia (from [http://www.discogs.com/BBC-Radiophonic-Workshop-A-Retrospective/release/1530728 discogs.com])
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* 1-16: [[Time On Our Hands]] (Titles And [[City Music]]) (2:01)
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Image:DD161321.jpg|[[DD161321]]: Manuscript score, side 1
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* 1-17: [[Arabic Science and Industry]] (0:21)
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Image:DD161337.jpg|[[DD161337]]: Manuscript score, side 2
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* 1-19: [[Know Your Car]] (Get Out And Get Under) (0:57)
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Image:DD161356.jpg|[[DD161356]]: Manuscript score, side 3
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* 1-20: [[Doctor Who]] (2:19)
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Image:DD161422.jpg|[[DD161422]]: Manuscript score, side 4
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* 1-25: [[Talk Out]] (0:24)
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</gallery>
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* 1-26: [[Science and Health]] (0:55)
 
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* 1-29: [[A New View of Politics]] (0:39)
 
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* 1-34: [[Environmental Studies]] (0:29)
 
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* 1-35: [[Chronicle]] (0:21)
 
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* 1-36: [[Great Zoos of the World]] (0:35)
 
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* 1-39: [[Dance from Noah]] (0:53)
 
  
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=Availability=
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* First broadcast from 14th January to 18th February 1963 and repeated in 1964 and 1965.<ref name=genome>[http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?order=asc&q=%22science+serves+the+arts%22 A search for ''Science Serves the Arts''] on the BBC Genome Project.</ref>
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* [https://www.gettyimages.it/video/science-serves-the-arts Getty Images] may have copies of the five episodes.
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=External links=
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* [http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/23513 The British Film Institute entry for the series]
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Revision as of 19:24, 12 January 2019

Science Serves the Arts 2. Anatomy of a Painting

Delia's papers include her score dated July 1962 for Science Serves the Arts, a science series for 6th formers produced by Lawrie Lawler.[1]

We don't know if this was a theme music for all the programmes, or a special insert for the first programme about Science and Music. By a strange coincidence, the programme interviews Tristram Cary as a renowned electronic music composer and someone Delia would meet five years later at Unit Delta Plus.

From the manuscript, the piece is a strange mixture of 3/4 and 4/4 bars, while along the top of page 1 appears the most hackneyed chord sequence in Western popular music, the "Blues" sequence C-C-F-C-G-F-C-C.

Episodes

As listed in the Radio Times:[1]

1: Science and Music

Among the multitude of new scientific developments artists are finding many which help them in their work. JOHN BORWICK discusses with TRISTRAM CARY the use a modern composer makes of electronic equipment to increase his range of sounds and whether he is influenced by modern recording techniques.

2: The Anatomy of Painting

Many modern art galleries have their own laboratories. Here scientific techniques are used to probe beneath the surface of old paintings and rediscover the methods and materials used by the masters of the past.
MICHAEL HECKFORD shows some examples of these techniques and explains how a modern artist uses the technical advances of his own times to help him broaden the scope of his work.

3: Translation By Machine

Modern communications are turning the world into a Tower of Babel, and yet few people speak more than one language. DONALD BOOTH describes how science is trying to help not only the translator but those research workers engaged in analysing great writings of the past.

4: The Paper Problem

As the world becomes educated an avalanche of printed paper is engulfing libraries. Donald Booth shows how the new National Lending Library is tackling the problem.

5: Revealing the Past

The art of the historian is based on analysing the evidence from manuscripts, relics, and archaeological sites. This analysis is now helped by new scientific techniques. BRIAN HOPE-TAYLOR chooses the Anglo-Saxon period to illustrate some of. them.

Papers

Availability

  • First broadcast from 14th January to 18th February 1963 and repeated in 1964 and 1965.[1]
  • Getty Images may have copies of the five episodes.

External links

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 A search for Science Serves the Arts on the BBC Genome Project.
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