DD140336

DD140336

DD140336 is a sheet of Delia's handwritten notes for the Greenwich Macbeth (1971) giving the construction techniques for some of the sounds, and showing that she re-used her sound for Aztecs, the thunder from King Lear (early 1968) and "Yoko Ono", which presumably refers to her sounds for the 1967 Wrapping Event.

Transcript

  Sea alone
  h/b   "
  " " together

  Frog - gr.l.double sp.
  Cat: - gr.l.1st cry.
  Dog: - one cry
  Owl. - first short one

  Battle - jump-cut - 5 secs or 10 Aztecs + stylized one cry
                                                  being killed.
          15s.           ½sp.+¼sp.
* wood moving  P.81 (wh.n.Aztecs + following perc.type + next metallic.)
     cresc. __ then \.

  branches down

  Drum a drum - 2 short phrases.

  Thunder-leav[?] 7½ for opening -

  Ross[?] & -- end of murder

  2 thunder storms - one before murder.

  Lots of trumpets into attack.
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       1-                                                     | Thunder on Yoko Ono
    -> 2- 12 horses arriving (long)                           |    at ½ sp. - fade at sticky[?].
     * 3-           approach & stop_ x2                       |
       4- leaving yard[?] (use at ½ sp.d)              |
       5-    "      "       "     " " "                       |
       6- approach + cart[?] echoey +stand still rattling[?]  |
       7 + cart               |gr.l.=led away]
       |                      |neighing
       | approach: too hard[?]|2nd gr.l.-led away *
       etc.

       bird 15
        "   7½
       battle

• double sp. = double speed
• h/b = ???
• gr.l = ???
• wh.n = ???
• sp.d = speed