Difference between pages "Queen Elizabeth Hall" 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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On 15th January 1968 Delia participated in a concert of electronic music at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.
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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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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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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.
  
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=Episodes=
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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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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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The following day, "Jack" ([[Albert Chatterly]]) wrote to Delia<ref>[[DD111508]]</ref> saying:
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=Papers=
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Congratulations on your (far too) tiny bit at
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Image:DD161321.jpg|[[DD161321]]: Manuscript score, side 1
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the Q.E. Hall last night. I agreed with the "Times"
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Image:DD161337.jpg|[[DD161337]]: Manuscript score, side 2
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that you certainly produced gorgeous sounds.
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Image:DD161356.jpg|[[DD161356]]: Manuscript score, side 3
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Image:DD161422.jpg|[[DD161422]]: Manuscript score, side 4
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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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* 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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* ''Diversed mind'' - Ernest Berk
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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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* ''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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=See also=
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=External links=
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* [[Queen Elizabeth Hall video]]
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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 19:04, 12 January 2019

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.

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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