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Your donation can make a difference.

Donate to the Daphne Oram Trust to help us secure Oram’s legacy and enable inclusive, electronic music to flourish in the UK.

DONATE

Thank you!

Daphne Oram

1925-2003

A pioneering electronic composer, inventor of the Oramics Machine and co‑founder of the highly influential BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

We’re here to safeguard Oram’s archive – a lifetime of recordings, papers and more – and support electronic music makers in the UK.

We also collaborate on live events and other projects exploring Oram’s life and work.

Oram’s influence

Past, present and future

Daphne Oram in her prviate studio
Oram's list of piants, pens and and inks to try on the Oramics Machine
Oram's list of piants, pens and and inks to try on the Oramics Machine

“Once the composer can write without the limitations of performance his palette is extended enormously… Rhythms become anything the composer can visualise without them having to be playable. Timbres have no registration and theoretically any sound, musical or otherwise, is within his grasp.”

Daphne Oram

Oram’s visionary proposal for a dedicated, experimental electronic workshop in her report to BBC managers, 1956.

The Oramics Machine control console, showing Oram painting lines on film
The Oramics Machine control console, showing Oram painting lines on film

  1. Pulse Persephone Daphne Oram Buy 4:07
  2. Bird Of Parallax Daphne Oram Buy 13:03
  3. Contrasts Esconic Daphne Oram Buy 8:20
  4. Four Aspects Daphne Oram Buy 8:07
  5. Tumblewash Daphne Oram Buy 2:04
  6. Snow Daphne Oram Buy 7:46
  7. Rockets In Ursa Major Daphne Oram Buy 4:57
  8. Episode Metalic Daphne Oram Buy 5:33