WEBVTT -- English

00:00:10.755 --> 00:00:15.685
Forget everything you know about synthesisers - 
Daphne's idea was to change shapes into sounds.

00:00:16.687 --> 00:00:18.687
And she could imagine sounds that she couldn't make.

00:00:19.867 --> 00:00:23.917
I think Daphne Oram is a really important figure in the history
of electronic music, especially in the UK.

00:00:25.105 --> 00:00:28.190
She was involved in electronic music technology in its very beginnings.

00:00:29.829 --> 00:00:35.188
What's really interesting about her is that she set off in an
entirely different direction from everybody else in how to make those sounds.

00:00:36.601 --> 00:00:40.337
And she created this extraordinary Oramics machine.

00:00:53.328 --> 00:00:56.439
She made glass slides on which she painted wave forms.

00:00:57.804 --> 00:01:02.206
and those would be plugged into a machine, and the machine would read those and make the basic sound.

00:01:08.823 --> 00:01:15.646
In 1972 Daphne Oram published a book entitled 
'An Individual Note: of music, sound and electronics".

00:01:16.391 --> 00:01:19.090
It's called 'An Individual Note...' and it is a really individual book.

00:01:19.121 --> 00:01:21.856
and it's been out of print for many years.

00:01:22.197 --> 00:01:32.484
It's really an articulation of how she'd been thinking about music for, presumably, the 15 or 20 years before.

00:01:32.593 --> 00:01:37.487
Daphne's Voice: "I've been thinking about this for years actually, 
I believe my father said that when I was seven years old,

00:01:37.628 --> 00:01:43.352
I was predicting that one day I would have a marvellous machine
that would make any sound I wanted."

00:01:43.384 --> 00:01:47.853
Daphne Oram was a fantastic writer, and her ideas...
sometimes they're close to science fiction.

00:01:47.894 --> 00:01:50.063
But they're very fun to read about.

00:01:50.063 --> 00:01:55.989
This Kickstarter campaign is an attempt to get Daphne Oram's writing back into the history of electronic music.

00:01:56.147 --> 00:02:01.793
Supporting the campaign will allow a whole new generation of people to enjoy Daphne Oram's work.