DD258

DD258 is the Initial Catalogue number of one of Delia's Attic Tapes containing recordings of lyre and clarinet for Pompeii.

Mark Ayres' notes

Type: 10.5" reel, 1/4" tape
Label: Lyre

Louis Niebur's notes

DD258 – lyre
Recorded at 15” (although it sounds too high, Delia’s voice can be heard occasionally in the background at this speed)
Plucking of lyre, with splices separating different sections (sometimes in unusual ways, cutting off lines, etc).
Followed by the sound of dying elephants.

James Percival's notes

CDD/1/1/4 Lyre/Clarinet
Session recordings of lyre and clarinet playing
FORMER REFERENCE: DD258
DATE: [1973]
CONTAINS: Chronicle: Pompeii
MEDIUM: 10.5" reel, ¼" tape
TAPE SPEED: 15ips DURATION: 00:08:58
LABELS: [Reel label:] LYRE (122) / 15ips / Treated - 445
NOTES: Lyre playing with filtering and reverb, followed by session recordings of lyre playing (a series of dyads in an unusual tuning, with Delia's voice audible in the background), then strained clarinet notes, low and high. Materials of this type are used, in treated form, for Chronicle: Pompeii (TX 1973).