Brighton Festival
As part of Unit Delta Plus,[1] Delia created music for the Brighton Festival held on the West Pier on 14th-30th April 1967 to exhibit works of art by staff and students of the Hornsey College of Art.
Billed in the programme as "LIGHT/SOUND WORKSHOP", Delia created the soundscapes for two exhibits entitled "Kinetic Arena" and "Kinetic Labyrinth" alongside “performances by Bruce Lacey and his robots, and Pink Floyd Sound”.[2]
The musics for the event, or the event itself are also collectively know as K4 or Kinetic four dimensional.[3]
She probably made a separate soundtrack for each sculpture, as collages of tracks (or of their makeup sounds) created for BBC programmes, artfully moving from one piece to another with new bridging sections.[4]
Tracks used for the Brighton Festival
From DD082814:
- D.A.
- Ape
- W. in S.
- Lay in the life [?]
- A Year IR
- Tower
- Amor Dei
- French Eyes
- Dreams
- ME [or Men?] in History
From tape label for DD201:
Papers
DD082346: A letter dated Dec 13th 1966 from Michael Leonard to Delia, confirming the event
DD082706: Draft programme by Clive Latimer dated 10th November 1966.
DD082729: Draft programme by Clive Latimer dated 10th November 1966.
DD082814: Delia's notes on the back of a concert flyer dated 13th March, of the pieces or makeups she was thinking of using for the festival
Availability
- There may be a copy on the Attic Tapes at Manchester,[5] presumably DD179:"Extracts from Brighton Festival, Lively Arts".
References
- ↑ DD179: Label: "Extracts from Brighton Festival, Lively Arts". Description: "Unit Delta Plus"
- ↑ DD082706: Draft programme.
- ↑ Delia Derbyshire's Creative Process, p.13.
- ↑ From what I remember of hearing it on David Butler's laptop. -martinwguy
- ↑ To An Independent Listener article at Manchester
