The BBC’s technology show Click recently featured Daphne Oram and the Oramics machine. It can be viewed here. The piece contains rare archive footage of Daphne Oram explaining the Oramics technique.
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.
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 »
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 »
Friday 27 June 2008 South Bank Centre, London Daphne Oram was an unsung pioneer of British electronic musician. This series of events celebrates the launch of the Daphne Oram Collection at Goldsmiths. For the past 12 months an Arts and Humanities Research Council grant has supported the digitisation of almost 700 reel to reel more »