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The Oram Awards 2022
BandcampFacebookTwitter The Oram Awards 2022 Congratulations to this year's eight awardees - including two in a new international category The Oram Awards recognise innovation in sound, music and related technologies and are open to women, trans and non-binary creators. The awards returned for a sixth edition in October 2022. Alongside six UK awardees were two winners in a new international category. The winners will be awarded their prizes in a… -
Daphne Oram Trust Emergency Support Grant – awardees
BandcampFacebookTwitter Awardees The Daphne Oram Trust Emergency Support Grant We're delighted to announce funding to the following sound and music practitioners. We hope this support from The Daphne Oram Trust will help our awardees to continue their careers or studies or meet essential living expenses as the Covid-19 pandemic continues. Thanks to all who applied for our emergency support grants. We were overwhelmed by the number and high quality of… -
Funding for new music from The Quietus
BandcampFacebookTwitter The Prelude Apply for one of five Wordsworth-inspired commissions with Aerial Festival and The Quietus. This year, online music magazine The Quietus was due to head to the Lake District to work on events for the Aerial Festival. When Covid-19 halted their plans, they decided to team up with Aerial and commission new music instead. They're offering five grants of £1000 each in return for pieces responding to Wordsworth's… -
The Oram Awards 2020
BandcampFacebookTwitter The Oram Awards Celebrating innovative sound and music creators The Oram Awards are targeted at the next generation of women, girls and minority gender artists who are innovating in music and sound. Presented by our friends the PRS Foundation and the New BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Applications for The Oram Awards 2020 are now closed. Winners will be announced on 1 November. Photo: A laptop performance from Hyperdub's Loraine James,… -
The Mini-Oramics Machine
BandcampFacebookTwitter The Mini-Oramics Machine Realised by Tom Richards from Oram's notes and drawings A desktop-sized follow-up to her Oramics Machine, the Mini-Oramics was one of Daphne Oram's unfinished projects. In 2016, Tom Richards built a working Mini-Oramics machine from Oram's original notes and drawings. The original Oramics Machine was the size of a large office photocopier so was too cumbersome for most musicians. You can read more about Oramics in… -
‘Oramics to Electronica’ at the Science Museum, London
BandcampFacebookTwitter Oramics to Electronica The Oramics Machine on display in the Science Museum, London Unveiled to the public for the first time since its recovery, the long-lost Oramics Machine was the big draw to this exhibition in 2011 exploring the history of electronic music. This hugely popular show was a temporary exhibition. It stayed up many months longer than originally planned but is now closed. The Oramics Machine is now… -
‘An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics’
BandcampFacebookTwitter 'An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics' Now in its third reprint Five decades out of print, Oram's technical and philosophical treatise on music, sound, electronics is available again in a glorious, new hardback edition. An Individual Note - of Music, Sound and Electronics Daphne Oram (first published in 1972), new edition with an introduction by Sarah Angliss, 2016. 176pp + 4pp covers, hardback, 220 x 165 mm,… -
The Daphne Oram Trust Emergency Support Grants
BandcampFacebookTwitter The Daphne Oram Trust Emergency Support Grants Six £500 grants for the electronic sound and music community in the UK The Daphne Oram Trust is giving out six emergency relief grants of £500 each to support individuals in the UK working in electronic music and sound. Recipients can be composers, sound designers, performers, artists, makers, curators, event producers, teachers, sound engineers or students. Applications are now closed - see… -
New creative arts building honours Daphne Oram
BandcampFacebookTwitter New creative arts building honours Daphne Oram Canterbury Christ Church University A new creative arts building at Canterbury Christ Church University has been named in honour of Oram to inspire the next generation of artists. The Daphne Oram Creative Arts Building opened in Canterbury Christ Church University in summer 2021. Oram was a tutor at Canterbury Christ Church College between 1982 and 1989, in the then Music Department, where… -
Still Point at the BBC Proms 2018
BandcampFacebookTwitter Still Point Oram's visionary 1940s turntablism - a World Premiere at The BBC Proms Monday 23 July 2018 saw the World Premiere of the final score for Daphne Oram's 1948 composition Still Point at the BBC Proms in London. Oram's groundbreaking piece for double orchestra, live electronics and turntables has been realised by Shiva Feshareki and James Bulley alongside the London Contemporary Orchestra. Still Point formed the centre piece…
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