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* [[Shadow of the Pharoah]], soundscapes based on the sound of [[Tutankhamun's Trumpet]]
 
* [[Shadow of the Pharoah]], soundscapes based on the sound of [[Tutankhamun's Trumpet]]
 
* [[The Bagman]], a radio play about a playwright's dream, a witch and a bag full of tiny people
 
* [[The Bagman]], a radio play about a playwright's dream, a witch and a bag full of tiny people
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* [[The Naked Sun]], musical effects for a sci-fi radio play
 
* [[Ways of Seeing]], music for the psychology of the "three dreams" used by many advertising campaigns
 
* [[Ways of Seeing]], music for the psychology of the "three dreams" used by many advertising campaigns
  
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* [[I Think in Shapes]]
 
* [[I Think in Shapes]]
 
* [[The Evenings of Certain Lives]]
 
* [[The Evenings of Certain Lives]]
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* [[The Cyprian Queen]]
 
* [[The Cyprian Queen]]
  

Revision as of 12:07, 19 June 2016

The WikiDelia

The WikiDelia is my second study of the life and work of the pioneer of electronic music Delia Derbyshire.

“I am staggered by the amount of information and detail in the wiki.”[1]

If you don't know Delia's music already, you should first look at delia-derbyshire.org and my first study, Delia Derbyshire's Audiological Chronology. If you just want the music, try Audio.

This WikiDelia extends the Chronology by having a page for each piece, album, person with whom she worked, event she participated in and so on, as well as one for each of the 250+ tapes and 1000+ papers found in her attic after she died.

To make them easier to find, each page is in one or more "Categories", of which the main ones are listed on the left.

It's far from complete but some highlights are:

  • The Pattern Emerges with log-frequency-axis spectrograms, score and analysis of the instruments
  • the Chronology, listing anything with a date associated with it
  • TRW: Hundreds of Delia's unpublished works rotting on tape in the BBC Sound Archive and
  • a Petition for the BBC to publish them.

I have recovered Delia's audio for

There are fragments of the audio for

and there are reconstructions from Delia's score fragments for

If you spot any errors, would like to help with it or have other questions, please contact delia.derbyshire.net@gmail.com

References


WikiDelia's web hosting is currently only paid up a few months in advance and costs 6 USD per month. Getting it paid up for 10 years in advance would ensure its future existence, whatever happens to me. Donations of 6 USD or more receive a rare Delian gift. See the Accounts page for details.