Ways of Seeing
Delia is credited with "Special Sound" for the fourth and final part of a BAFTA award-winning 1972 BBC series of programmes Ways of Seeing, produced and directed by Michael Dibb,[1][2] in which John Berger "analyses the images of advertising and publicity and shows how they relate to the tradition of oil painting - in moods, relationships and poses."[3]
The Performing Right Society's list of works by Delia Ann Derbyshire has:
Title: Ways Of Seeing Writer(s): Derbyshire Delia Ann; Clarke Malcolm John Publisher; BBC Music Creation date: 8 March 1993
The first three minutes of episode 2[4] also have a radiophonic background[5] which sounds like two chords of an orchestral piece slowed down, maybe to a quarter of its original speed.
Contents
End credits
- Special sound: Delia Derbyshire, BBC Radiophonic Workshop
- Producer: Michael Dibb
Track list
- 05:50-09:30 "Publicity impersonates painting" (uninspired slow monophonic synth solo, probably Malcolm Clarke, not Delia)
- 09:53-10:31 "Publicity and oil painting use many of the same references" (similar piece for two voices)
- 13:42-16:00 Perfume bottling factory rhythmic loop
- 16:00-16:30 "The more monotonous the present, the more the imagination must seize upon the future" (ethereal chords similar to Amor Dei)
- 16:42-17:45 The Dream of Later Tonight
- 17:52-18:33 The Skin Dream
- 19:03-20:18 The Dream of a Faraway Place
Analysis
James Percival says of these pieces:
'The Dream of Later Tonight' and 'The Skin Dream' use textures lifted virtually unchanged from 'The After Life' and 'Amor Dei' respectively, whilst 'The Dream of a Faraway Place' sets new (Delaware/Synthi 100?) material derived probably from some interesting spectral study (not found elsewhere on the Attic tapes as far as I recall) against the third section of Amor Dei ("I'd like to believe in God, but...")[6]
Tapes
- DD272: Backgrounds
Spectrograms
Episode 2 intro
Intro
The Dream of Later Tonight
The Skin Dream
The Dream of a Faraway Place
Availability
- Broadcast:[7]
- on BBC2 on 29th January 1972 at 22.00
- on BBC1 on 15th August 1973 at 23.45
- on BBC2 on 20th August 1994 at 14.15
- on BBC4 on 1st October 2008 at 19.30
- In the BBC Sound Archive on tape TRW 7448.[8]
- Ways of Seeing, part 4 on youtube.com
- File:John Berger Ways of Seeing.torrent
- Three dreams:
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References
- ↑ The programme's entry in the BFI Film & TV database
- ↑ BBC Radiophonic Workshop - surviving work entry for TRW 7448, credited to Malcolm Clarke/Delia Derbyshire
- ↑ Ways of Seeing on thebox.bz
- ↑ Ways of Seeing, part 2 on youtube.com
- ↑ Thanks to Alex J for spotting this.
- ↑ James Percival in a comment on facebook on 28th July 2018.
- ↑ Search Ways of Seeing at the BBC Genome Project
- ↑ The Tape Library List's entry for TRW 7448.
