I'm developing a new series of songs to play out at electronic evening - the heart of which will be my trusty Micro Korg!
The piano songs adapt well. When I twiddle the wheels while I'm playing I fantasise that I am Delia Derbyshire.
I have no idea what the wheels do, although I can hear it. I have not read the manual.
judecowanmontague.com Jude Cowan Montague is an artist and writer. She makes music, visual art, wordcrafts and is a broadcaster. 'The News Agents' on Resonance FM since 2014 - Saturdays 2.30pm-3.30pm thenewsagents.blogspot.com
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Showing posts with label Delia Derbyshire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Delia Derbyshire. Show all posts
Friday, 22 October 2010
New electronic Jude
Tuesday, 5 October 2010
Delia Derbyshire - Pauline Sewards

The very lovely poet Pauline Sewards who I am so proud to call a friend and I share a mutual interest - in Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic workshop. Pauline has written a beautiful poem about her, and she's kindly allowed me to post it here. Thanks Pauline.
Delia Derbyshire
We are in one of those places that isn’t quite anywhere -
the hard shoulder of the M62
Retuning the radio,
the sound comes through
in querulous spikes -
the voice of Delia Derbyshire
syncopates the night
She did her work back in the sixties,
a Sasooned and mini-skirted Goddess of Geeks,
only years later got credit due
she was with Oram and Grainger
in the Radiophonic workshop
but Delia wrote the music to Dr Who
Images of outer space
inside the eyelids of your inner space
evoke those long ago
Saturday egg and chip teatimes when
Delia’s multi phased sonic innovations
reeled us in to the tingling
Science fiction comfort zone.
Fractal patterns breaking
in a world where identity slips
and time trips over and over
She was the Queen of synaesthesia
if you can have synaesthesia in black and white
And now we are stuck in this car
on the highway,
if we could see through the fog
to the other side of the motorway
we‘d be watching our younger selves
coming the other way
Is it interference in between stations?
Or does the voice of Delia Derbyshire
syncopate the night?
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