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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… -
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 Daphne Oram Collection
BandcampFacebookTwitter The Daphne Oram Collection Collected from Oram's home and private studio A lifetime of audio recordings, scores, personal papers, computer code and more can be found in The Daphne Oram Collection. Originally in the safekeeping of composer Hugh Davies, then the Oram extended family, this archive is now on loan to the Special Collections & Archives, Goldsmiths, where it can be viewed by appointment. When Daphne Oram died in… -
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… -
Oram’s technical contribution – a perspective from Peter Manning and Nicola Candlish
BandcampFacebookTwitter Oram's technical contribution - a perspective from Peter Manning and Nicola Candlish A talk at the Southbank Symposium, July 2008 Peter Manning and Nicola Candlish give their perspective on Oram's contributions to technology and music, with a focus on the unique circumstances that shaped and influenced her achievements during her time at the BBC. Recorded at the Oramics Symposium, Southbank Centre, London, 2008. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 -
Oramics Symposium at the Southbank Centre, London
BandcampFacebookTwitter Oramics Symposium at the Southbank Centre, London Oram celebrated in talks and music performances A series of events celebrating the launch of The Daphne Oram Collection, formally on loan to the Special Collections & Archives, Goldsmiths College, University of London. At this event, Oram's niece Carolyn Scales met with some other co-founders and moved foward her ambition to set up The Trust. Friday 27 June 2008 South Bank Centre,…
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