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In the [[Attic Tapes]] three tapes seem to be for a piece called ''Singing Waters''<ref>[[DD068]]: "Singing Waters"</ref><ref>[[DD069]]: "Singing Waters"</ref> whose master tape is 16:09 long, for a programme called ''[[24 Hours]]''",<ref>James Percival, ''[[Delia Derbyshire's Creative Process]]'', p.15.</ref> including the lyrics "It is raining women's voices".<ref name=DD026>[[DD026]]: "Water Penny Studio", "It is raining women's voices"</ref>
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In the [[Attic Tapes]] three tapes seem to be for a piece called ''Singing Waters''<ref>[[DD068]]: "Singing Waters"</ref><ref>[[DD069]]: "Singing Waters"</ref> whose master tape is 16:09 long, for a programme called ''[[24 Hours]]'',<ref>James Percival, ''[[Delia Derbyshire's Creative Process]]'', p.15.</ref> including the lyrics "It is raining women's voices".<ref name=DD026>[[DD026]]: "Water Penny Studio", "It is raining women's voices"</ref>
  
 
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Revision as of 06:41, 8 May 2020

"Il Pleut" by Apollinaire

In the Attic Tapes three tapes seem to be for a piece called Singing Waters[1][2] whose master tape is 16:09 long, for a programme called 24 Hours,[3] including the lyrics "It is raining women's voices".[4]

The text is the poem “Il pleut” by Apollinaire. Highly evocative and literal treatments of this text. The poem’s graphology is apparently also reflected in Derbyshire’s treatments. [...] The label on this reel presumably refers to Penny as the singer.[5]

Tapes

  • DD026: "Water Penny Studio"
  • DD068: "Singing Waters" recording session
  • DD069: "Singing Waters" treated material
  • DD091: "Singing Waters" untreated material


Availability

  • In James Percival's thesis there is a spectrogram of one of the makeup sounds (Attic Tape CDD/1/7/37[4] from 2'49"-3'00") converted here to noisy and distorted audio by resynthesizing it from the spectrogram

CDD-1-7-37 2'49"-3'00" Water makeup

References

  1. DD068: "Singing Waters"
  2. DD069: "Singing Waters"
  3. James Percival, Delia Derbyshire's Creative Process, p.15.
  4. 4.0 4.1 DD026: "Water Penny Studio", "It is raining women's voices"
  5. Notes to tape DD026 in Appendix 2 of James Percival's thesis.