Daphne Oram: An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics (1972)

“Daphne Oram was educated at Sherborne School for Girls, and then, during the war, she joined the BBC in London as a Music Balancer. There she worked with most of the well known international musicians in the fields of chamber music and opera. But, alongside this work, she was intrigued by the possibilities of manipulating magnetic tape sound, and as early as 1948 began to build special equipment for experiments. She was the first to compose an electronic sound track for a BBC television play (Amphitryon 38), all the composing being done in the middle of the night (using quickly assembled equipment) in the deserted Broadcasting House studios.

When the BBC eventually built an experimental studio, the Radiophonic Workshop, Daphne Oram helped to design it and then directed it. In 1959, she decided to leave the BBC to create her own studio in her converted oasthouse at Wrotham, Kent. Since then, she has become internationally known for her work in films, television, theatre and radio; she has presented successful concerts of electronic compositions at the Mermaid Theatre, London, and at the Edinburgh International Festival. She has lectured widely–at London University, Cambridge University Arts Society, The Institute of Physics, Harrow School, Wellington College, Roedean, and at many other Colleges, Schools and Music Festivals. She has also appeared a number of times on television and in films.

For her Oramics research work, at her Kent studio, she received two Gulbenkian Foundation Grants.”

Publisher Galliard, London, and Galaxy Music Corporation, New York, 1972
ISBN 0852491093
145 pages
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Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri: Declaration (2012) [English/Russian]

This is not a manifesto. Manifestos provide a glimpse of a world to come and also call into being the subject, who although now only a spector must materialize to become the agent of change. Manifestos work like the ancient prophets, who by the power of their vision create their own people. Today’s social movements have reversed the order, making manifestos and prophets obsolete. Agents of change have already descended into the streets and occupied city squares, not only threatening and toppling rulers but also conjuring visions of a new world. More important, perhaps, the multitudes, through their logics and practices, their slogans and desires, have declared a new set of priciples and truths. How can their declaration become the basis for constituting a new and sustainable society? How can those priciples and truths guide us in reinventing how we relate to each other and our world? In their rebellion, the multitudes must discover the passage from declaration to constitution.

Self-published on 8 May 2012
ISBN: 9780786752911
98 pages

commentary (by Nicholas Mirzoeff)

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Audiovisual Thinking: The Journal of Academic Videos, No. 2-3 (2010-2011)

Audiovisual Thinking is a leading journal of academic videos about audiovisuality, communication and media. The journal is a pioneering forum where academics and educators can articulate, conceptualize and disseminate their research about audiovisuality and audiovisual culture through the medium of video.

Issue 2: Rights and wrongs in the age of digital media
The second issue of Audiovisual Thinking focuses on how copyright and intellectual property issues relate to audiovisuality in general and academic video essays in particular.

Issue 3: The real, the virtual and the fictional
What is digital? What is virtual? How do the digital and the virtual relate to each other? Is virtual the opposite of real, or is it a subset of reality? And where in this does the fictional come in? Although philosophical, these issues have in many different ways impacted on how we think about identity, integrity, communication and media in this digital era we have created for ourselves.

Contact: Inge Ejbye Sørensen
Editorial board: Thommy Eriksson, Oranit Klein Shagrir, Inge Sørensen, Petri Kola, Sanna Marttila

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