Robert Lowell

Delia created the music for "a short 1970 film directed by Caroline McCullough about the American poet and conscientious objector Robert Lowell".

Louis Niebur describes Delia's sounds for this as "Amazing".

Credits

• Actors: Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Hardwicke, Mary McCarthy, Norman Mailer
• Director, Producer and Script: Caroline (or Carolyn) McCullough
• Directors of Photography: Albert Maysles, David Young
• Composer: Delia Derbyshire
• Duration: 20 minutes

Copyright

The Performing Right Society's list of works by Delia Ann Derbyshire has:

Title: Robert Lowell
Writer(s): Derbyshire Delia Ann
Publisher: Unpublished
Creation date: 9 August 1986

Availability

• There are makeups or master tapes in the Attic Tapes:
  • DD045: "Lowell 1"
  • DD052: "Lowell 2"
  • DD051: "Lowell 3"
  • DD178: Empty tape box labelled "Last installment of electronic sound for Robert Lowell film"
• In James Percival's thesis there is a spectrogram of Attic Tape CDD/1/3/5 (DD045) from 0'32"-4'32", reconverted here to noisy and distorted audio by resynthesizing it from the spectrogram