How Daphne Oram’s radical turntable experiments were brought to life after 70 years
Thomas Howells at Fact magazine examines a little-known composition by experimental music pioneer and Radiophonic Workshop co-founder Daphne Oram. A collaboration between turntablist Shiva Feshareki and conductor Robert Ames presented the piece to a live audience in June of 2016.
I met Bulley and Feshareki to find out how they finally managed to pull off a piece that sounds, by Feshareki’s estimations, like “Tchaikovsky, if we lived in a parallel universe [with] ghosts of aliens from other parallel universes.”