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&ldquo;[[Peter Zinovieff]] had his first official contact with the [[BBC Radiophonic Workshop]] on October 28, 1964, when he was given a tour of the Workshop's facilities in his capacity as a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation employee.&rdquo;<ref>[[Special Sound]], p.131</ref>
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On 15th January 1968 Delia participated in a concert of electronic music at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.
  
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From 1966 to 1967, Delia and [[Brian Hodgson]] moonlighted from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop to work with him as [[Unit Delta Plus]].
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The concert opened with her piece [[Pot Pourri]] and there is [[Queen Elizabeth Hall video|film of her on stage]] starting the machinery that plays [[Peter Zinovieff]]'s &lsquo;''Partita for Unattended Computer''&rsquo;.<ref name=RedBull> [http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/dr-peter-zinovieff-the-original-tectonic-sounds Red Bull Academy interview with Peter Zinovieff]</ref>
  
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On 15th January 1968, she can be seen helping him set off his ''Partita for Unattended Computer''<ref name=RedBull/> as part of a concert of electronic music including her own piece [[Pot Pourri]] at the Royal Festival Hall.
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At the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London there was a full house of thirteen hundred people [with] three hundred people turned away, in 1967.<ref>Peter Zinovieff in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RSXsZMtL8Y ''These Machines Haven't Finished'' on youtube] at 39:56.</ref>
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The following day, "Jack" ([[Albert Chatterly]]) wrote to Delia<ref>[[DD111508]]</ref> saying:
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Congratulations on your (far too) tiny bit at
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the Q.E. Hall last night. I agreed with the "Times"
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that you certainly produced gorgeous sounds.
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It was Delia who introduced him to [[Alan Sutcliffe]]<ref>[http://sciencemuseumdiscovery.com/blogs/insight/back-to-the-future-of-electronic-music/ ''Back to the future of electronic music''], an article in the Science Museum blog, 6th September 2011</ref>, who subsequently joined him as part of his later [[Electronic Music Studio]].
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=Programme<ref name=Routh20>Francis Routh, ''Contemporary British Music: The Twenty-Five Years from 1945 to 1970'' (1972), [http://www.musicweb-international.com/routh/Contemporary.htm Chapter 20: Electronic music and the Avant-garde: Electronic Music]</ref>=
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* ''Potpourri'' - Delia Derbyshire
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* ''Diversed mind'' - Ernest Berk
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* ''3 4 5'' - Tristram Cary
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* ''Birth is life is power is death is God is...'' - Tristram Cary
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* ''December Quartet'' - [[Peter Zinovieff]]
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* ''Contrasts Essconic'' (for piano and tape) - [[Daphne Oram]] and Ivor Walsworth
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* ''Partita for unattended computer'' - Peter Zinovieff
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* ''Silent Spring'' - George Newson
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* ''Syntheses 8, 9 and 12'' - Jacob Meyerowitz
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* ''Agnus Dei'' - Peter Zinovieff
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* ''March probabilistic'' - Peter Zinovieff and Alan Sutcliffe.
  
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Shortly before Delia died, she wrote the following (of [[Sonic Boom]]):
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<I>One of our first points of contact - the visionary work of Peter Zinovieff - has touched us both, and has been an inspiration.</I><ref>[http://www.delia-derbyshire.org delia-derbyshire.org]</ref>
 
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though in 2010, Peter Zinovieff referred to her as his 'assistant'
 
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'''Interviewer:''' Do we hear that right? Delia Derbyshire was your assistant at some stage?
 
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'''Zinovieff:''' Yes. She -er - I formed a
 
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'''Interviewer:''' Lucky you!
 
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'''Zinovieff:''' Oh! I formed a group called [[Unit Delta Plus]] and I got Delia Derbyshire and Brian Hodgson from the BBC to join me. Um. The idea was that we would make a fortune doing commercial sounds and I wasn't interested in doing commercial sounds. We did one commercial sound called [[Philips]] which was something like &ldquo;wup!&rdquo; and that was it. We got a lot of money for that but I didn't want to do that so we split after a bit and they went on. But they didn't succeed either.
 
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<ref name=RedBull>The [http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/dr-peter-zinovieff-the-original-tectonic-sounds Red Bull Academy interview] from 2010.</ref>
 
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I tried to communicate with Delia and I also tried to communicate with Mendelson[?] but Mendelson was no good; he just said "Get on with it" and when I suggested to Delia that I'd like to try and do something as if we ''had'' collaborated 50 or whatever it was years ago, she said "Well, just get on with it however you like."<ref>Zinovieff in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RSXsZMtL8Y These Machines Haven't Finished"] on youtube, at 20:20.</ref>
 
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and I am told that in private, he says:
 
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She was only interested in money.<ref>Referred personal communication.</ref>
 
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Revision as of 11:59, 5 January 2019

A Concert of Electronic Music playbill

On 15th January 1968 Delia participated in a concert of electronic music at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.

The concert opened with her piece Pot Pourri and there is film of her on stage starting the machinery that plays Peter Zinovieff's ‘Partita for Unattended Computer’.[1]

At the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London there was a full house of thirteen hundred people [with] three hundred people turned away, in 1967.[2]

The following day, "Jack" (Albert Chatterly) wrote to Delia[3] saying: 

Congratulations on your (far too) tiny bit at
the Q.E. Hall last night. I agreed with the "Times"
that you certainly produced gorgeous sounds.

Programme[4]

  • Potpourri - Delia Derbyshire
  • Diversed mind - Ernest Berk
  • 3 4 5 - Tristram Cary
  • Birth is life is power is death is God is... - Tristram Cary
  • December Quartet - Peter Zinovieff
  • Contrasts Essconic (for piano and tape) - Daphne Oram and Ivor Walsworth

Interval

  • Partita for unattended computer - Peter Zinovieff
  • Silent Spring - George Newson
  • Syntheses 8, 9 and 12 - Jacob Meyerowitz
  • Agnus Dei - Peter Zinovieff
  • March probabilistic - Peter Zinovieff and Alan Sutcliffe.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Red Bull Academy interview with Peter Zinovieff
  2. ↑ Peter Zinovieff in These Machines Haven't Finished on youtube at 39:56.
  3. ↑ DD111508
  4. ↑ Francis Routh, Contemporary British Music: The Twenty-Five Years from 1945 to 1970 (1972), Chapter 20: Electronic music and the Avant-garde: Electronic Music
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