The Cloud

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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]

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

Availability

  • On Attic Tapes:
    • DD143: "The Cloud 1 of 2 & Moodgies Bluedgies 3 of 3"
    • DD194: "The Cloud 2 of 2; F Chagrin; S Brown"

References

  1. Francis Chagrin's entry on en.wikipedia.org]
  2. Francis Chagrin's credits page for Doctor Who on bbc.co.uk
  3. Barry Bermange's biography on Film Reference.
  4. Delia Derbyshire's Creative Process, p.13, Table II.1.
  5. DD094031: List of sounds on tape B.
  6. DD094050: List of sounds to make.
  7. DD094123: Cues for start of Act I.
  8. DD094105: Musical plan for "4-note answering phrases".