Enjoyed, found, listened and pleased
Enjoyed Alchemists of Sound , a post on the excellent blog but she's a girl...... The post is about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop , and includes fascinating information on the woman composer and mathematician Delia Derbyshire who is best known for arranging the electronic version of the original Doctor Who theme tune. ( Delia Derbyshire incidentally entered the BBC as a trainee Studio Manager, exactly the same route as Pliable, but twelve years earlier. The photo above shows Delia editing at the Beeb on a reel-to-reel recorder which brings back many memories of razor blades and yellow leader tape) . Found Infoshare which is a weblog from the US Music Library Association . A lot of good stuff on it, and it doesn't seem to be too well known. Listened a lot to Keith Jarrett's new solo double CD Radiance . To date Jarrett has been a musician justifiably lauded for crossing genres , but conversely has kept his work in separate genre boxes with his Standards Trio, radical