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Many of the composers represented here worked for major radio and film studios, scored feature films (like 1956’s Forbidden Planet), invented and innovated new instruments and techniques, wrote for orchestras, and passed on their knowledge as educators and producers.

There isn’t one clear inventor of electronic music, although if you start looking, you’ll find that an overwhelming number of early pioneers who shaped its history were women. On both a technical and creative level, women have and continue to revolutionalize electronic music. As the genre developed

Northern Soul's Andy Murray reviews the Delia Derbyshire Day at Manchester's HOME.

Delia was a musical pioneer, a unique lady with a sharp sense of humour, humility and an unbridled passion for creating. The story of her contribution to the world has not taken up space as prominently as it should.

I've just bought a t-shirt with this great image on it: It's been made in conjunction with a recent reissue of 'Electrosonic', the 1972 K...

remembering Delia Derbyshire on what would have been her 79th birthday It was Delia who gave Ron Grainer’s Doctor Who theme an electronic spin. Her arrangement served as Doctor Who’s main theme for...

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Delia Derbyshire, by Andy Tuohy

Delia Derbyshire

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