On Wednesday 9th November a talk on Daphne Oram and the philosophy of Oramics will take place at the Sound Arts & Design Department at the London College of Communication. In ‘The Legacy of Daphne Oram’, Chris Weaver and Dan Wilson will discuss the workings of the Oramics machine, its theory, origin, development and the sonic explorations it facilitated. Daphne Oram’s futurological and esoteric ideas will be examined, along with her later work involving her somewhat secretive computerised realisation of Oramics.
The official opening of The Science Museum’s ‘Oramics to Electronica’ exhibition took place earlier this month. Two short films were premiered: Aura Satz‘s ‘Oramics: Atlantis Anew’ followed by Nick Street and Jen Fearnley’s ‘Oramics to Electronica’ (charting the run-up to the opening of the exhibition). An excerpt from Aura Satz’s atmospheric film, named after Daphne more »
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On Thursday 28th July, the Oramics machine was unveiled marking the start of the first phase of the Oramics to Electronica project at The Science Museum. All four elements of the Oramics apparatus are on display, namely, the loudspeaker cabinets, the waveform scanner, the amplifier and the control console itself. Rare interview footage with Daphne more »
The Science Museum is in the late planning stages for putting the Oramics Machine on show, with a target date of the end of June. The Museum will be working with interested individuals to develop the surrounding display; this will look at the origins of electronic music and its influence up to the present. If more »
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Thursday 7th April 2011 Cafe Oto, E8 3DL, London The U.K music magazine, The Wire, have asked the Oram Archive to arrange one of their Salon events in London, early next month. The event is being held on Thursday the 7th of April at Cafe Oto at 8pm. £4 on the door The programme for the evening more »