The Cloud
Her papers contain a collection of detailed notes and tape labels for the creation of sound for what appears to be a two-act play produced in collaboration with F. Chagrin and S. Brown.
S. Brown is presumably Sandy Brown, composer of the score for Searching, while F. Chagrin is presumably Francis Chagrin, a composer of film music[1] who created incidental music for a 1965 episode of Doctor Who, The Dalek Invasion of Earth.[2]
Barry Bermange, which whom Delia created Four Inventions for Radio in 1964-65, also produced a play of his own called The Cloud on stage in London in 1964,[3] and 1964 is also the date given for The Cloud in James Percival's catalogue of Delia's works.[4]
Contents
Structure
The play is in two acts and the script has 12 effect cues, consisting of treated seagull sounds, "1000's of birds" and a "big screeching climax"[5] which were created using a Muirhead oscillator, the Wobbulator and some band-pass filters[6] and by playing things at double and half speed.[7]
There is a 4-note sequence A-B-C-D which is answered by the same four-note sequence.[8]
Papers
DD093953: Cover of the bundle
DD094019: List of 2 tapes & their contents
DD094031: List of sounds on tape B.
DD094050: List of sounds to make for acts 1 and 2
DD094105: Delia's plans "2x 4 note answering phrases"
DD094123: Cues for start of Act I
DD094131: Cues for end of Act I and for Act II
DD094142: Sequences for Act I
DD094151: Sequences for Act II
Availability
- On Attic Tapes:
References
- ↑ Francis Chagrin's entry on en.wikipedia.org]
- ↑ Francis Chagrin's credits page for Doctor Who on bbc.co.uk
- ↑ Barry Bermange's biography on Film Reference.
- ↑ Delia Derbyshire's Creative Process, p.13, Table II.1.
- ↑ DD094031: List of sounds on tape B.
- ↑ DD094050: List of sounds to make.
- ↑ DD094123: Cues for start of Act I.
- ↑ DD094105: Musical plan for "4-note answering phrases".
