Delia Derbyshire Day
Cookes Studios, Barrow-in-Furness
Saturday 5th August
Performance 19.00-21.00
Click here for performance tickets (£3/£5)
As part of this year’s Full of Noises programme, Octopus are excited to be hosting two special events celebrating the life and work of 1960’s electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire (1937-2001), most well-known for her work at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop where she produced the version of The Dr Who theme loved by generations of fans.
Concert
19:00 - 21:00
An intimate evening of live performance and film brought to us by Delia Derbyshire Day - a Manchester-based organisation which celebrates the life and work of electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire and commissions new work based on the DD archive. The evening programme includes:
- Full of Noises have commissioned prize-winning Cumbrian sound artist Jenn Mattinson to make a new piece inspired by the time Delia lived in Cumbria in the 1980's which will receive it's first performance this evening.
- A selection of work made for previous editions of DDD including:
- Caro C - “Audient, my dear” (2013) for electronics, voice, ping pong ball and ruler.Caro C is an electronic music producer, performer and sound engineer with a passion for found sounds and languages, but operating at a time when the technology available is in stark contrast to the complex and time-consuming techniques used by Delia and her peers. With live digital visuals by Andrea Pazos.
- The Architects of Rosslyn - "The Waking Sleep" (2016). Mandy Wigby Producer/Composer feat. Howard Jacobs Composer/Musician – performing a live electronic and acoustic/foley soundtrack to a collage of films by artist and ‘movician’ Di Mainstone.
- DD Audio archive collage by David Butler with film by FON favorite Mary Stark - A camera-less 35mm film in response to the Delia Derbyshire Archive.
Read more: http://deliaderbyshireday.com/
Listen to Circular Thinking by Jenn Mattinson and Mark Vernon (2015) :
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