Daphne Oram


Auditorium Ansermet
Passage Marie-Claude Leburgue 2
(formerly Passage de la Radio 2),
1205 Geneva

Subscription Concert

An individual note

Pre-concert

Thu 06.02.2025
6:15 p.m

Presentation with the curators

This program includes

Preserved compositions
and digitised from the
archives of Daphne Oram

Diffusion of these
electroacoustic works:

Four Aspects (1960)
piece for concert
electroacoustic

Pulse Persephone (1965)
exhibition piece

Bird of Parallax (1972)
ballet music

Curation

The Daphne Oram Trust
Sarah Angliss
Frances Morgan
James Bulley
Ian Stonehouse

In association with

The Daphne Oram Trust
Department of Music, Goldsmiths,
University of London

Partners

Loterie Romande
Music Pass
Fondation Philanthropique Famille Sandoz (FPFS)
Ville de Genève

Hear the extraordinary tape manipulations of Daphne Oram on Auditorium Ansermet’s multi-channel diffusion system in this celebration of her music for radio, film, ballet, installations and the concert stage. British composer Oram (1925-2003) was a visionary electronic artist and inventor of Oramics, a means of synthesising sound by drawing waveforms, pitches, volume envelopes and other properties on film. She co-founded the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, drawing up the blueprints for this renowned home of electronics and musical experimentalism in 1956. And in the years that followed she continued to compose highly distinctive tape music in her home studio in England – one of the first independent electronic studios in Europe.

Daphne Oram_Images courtesy The Daphne Oram TrustDaphne Oram_Images courtesy The Daphne Oram Trust
Daphne Oram et ses machines_Images courtesy The Daphne Oram TrustDaphne Oram et ses machines_Images courtesy The Daphne Oram Trust

[DO]
Fig. 10 et 11
Representation of a resonant body [DO]
perturbed by various properties of the
sound track: Daphne_Oram-Pulse_
Persephone.mp3
Daphne Oram / Pulse Persephone

[DO]
Fig. 10 et 11
Representation of a resonant body [DO]
perturbed by various properties of the
sound track: Daphne_Oram-Pulse_
Persephone.mp3
Daphne Oram / Pulse Persephone