Kaleidophon
A week after meeting David Vorhaus while giving a lecture at Morley College in London, Delia and Brian Hodgson moonlighted from the BBC to set up the Kaleidophon studio with David Vorhaus,[1] at which they produced two albums and some music for TV adverts.
It was at 56 Clarendon Road, London W.11 on 1st January 1968[2] and at 281-283 Camden High Street, London. N.W.1. from at least 15th February 1969[3] to 3rd September 1970.[4] Their phone number in Camden was GUL 6464.[5]
Kaleidophon produced two albums:
- The ESL104 album of sound effects
- An Electric Storm album
an electronic sound-track for the exhibit The Coloured Wall by Mr. M. Leonard at an Association of Electrical Engineers Exhibition
as well as music and effects for theatre productions:
- Tony Richardson's Hamlet at the Roundhouse[6]
- Medea, directed by David Thomson for the Greenwich Theatre[6]
- King Lear for the Royal Shakespeare Company[7]
- Macbeth (1971), directed by Ewan Hooper for the Greenwich Theatre[6]
and, with Brian,[8] composed and realised:
- Advert for Huntley and Palmer
- Advert for Philips (x 2)
- Fresh Aire
- Gothic Submarine
- London Lemons
- Lure of the Space Goddess
- Restless Relays
- Time Capsule
- Who Is
- Way Out
- Work Is A Four Letter Word
Some Kaleidophon works to which Delia appears not to have contributed are:
- Peter Logan's Mechanical Ballet
- An advert for Bristows (Searching)
- Idents for L.W.T. (London Weekend Television)
Papers
- DD134709: List of pieces
- DD165316: Letter dated 31st March 1969 to John
- DD165330: Letter dated 24th May 1969 from Delia to Dallas Arbiter Ltd. ordering a George Hayman drumkit
- DD165251: Letter dated 8th June 1969 from Brian Hodgson to the producer of 'Moon Zero Two', Hammer Film Productions Ltd on Kaleidophon headed notepaper.
References
- ↑ Sound On Sound article "David Vorhaus", February 2002
- ↑ DD080404: Letter dated 1st January 1968 to "Barry" concluding the work on Work Is A Four Letter Word.
- ↑ DD164714: Letter dated 15th February 1969 from David Vorhaus to Miss Astrahan giving Kaleidophon's "new address".
- ↑ The Dial a tune article.
- ↑ DD165533: Letter dated 16th February 1969 from Delia to Brian about plumbing.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Breege Brennan's thesis
- ↑ DD100926: List of Kaleidophon's "current and recent commissions"
- ↑ DD134745: Handwritten list of pieces by Kaleidophon.
