Angela's Ballet
Delia created a piece of music which she called Angela's Ballet, later rebaptised as Gravel, for Angela Rodaway's radio play Death of the Jelly Baby, produced for the BBC by Michael Bakewell in 1964, consisting of "music created from EEG readings of Authoress Angela Rodaway and Michael Bakewell".[1]
... a collaboration with Angela Radaway (presumably a spelling error) referred to as "Gravel" in the BBC Written Archive (WAC R97/9/1) and "Angela's ballet" on Delia archive documents. Gravel, described as an "electronic ballet score" in a letter from Briscoe, was apparently played (along with The Dreams) at the 1964 Congress for Experimental Music in Berlin. The same letter makes reference to ECG graphs.[2]
Delia's notes "R.W - 26.7.63"[3] list Gravel as one of her immediate tasks, along with "Doctor Who sig" and "Anamorphosis", though its Radiophonic Database entry is dated 1964 and from "cost year" 1964.
Copyright
The Performing Right society list of works by Delia Ann Derbyshire has:
Title: Gravel Writer(s); Derbyshire Delia Ann Publisher: BBC Worldwide Music Creation date: 11 August 1999
Availability
- According to the Tape Library List, Gravel was never broadcast.[1]
- Played at the 1964 Congress for Experimental Music in Berlin,[2] most likely in the second week of October.[4]
- On Attic Tape DD221: "Angela's Ballet 1 master": early version of Gravel[5]
- In the BBC Sound Archive on tape TRW 6064: "Gravel", whose notes say that TRW 6062 contains two bands of inserts, then "Master", then a copy of the inserts" and that TRW 6064/A was originally "Gravel Speech Chords".[1]
- In the BBC Sound Archive on tape TRW 4: Radiophonic Workshop Archive Tape 4 (1961-1964).[1]
- The BBC Sound Archive's tape TRW 6667: "Gravel - Germany" is missing.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 The Tape Library List's entry for TRW 6064: "Gravel".
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Message from James Percival to the Delia Derbyshire mailing list on 19th November 2012.
- ↑ DD074230
- ↑ The 1968 Congress for Experimental music was held from 7-12 October so, if 1964's dates were similar, the corresponding Monday-to-Saturday week in 1964 would be from the 5th to the 10th.
- ↑ The Initial Catalogue's entry for DD221.
- ↑ The Tape Library List's entry for TRW 6667: "Gravel - Germany".
