DAPHNE ORAM -

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Daphne Oram (31 December 1925 - 5 January 2003) was a British composer and electronic musician. She was the creator of the Oramics technique for creating electronic sounds. Educated at Sherborne School For Girls, Oram was, from an early age, taught piano and organ as well as musical composition. In 1942 she was offered a place at the Royal College of Music but instead took up a position as a Junior Studio Engineer and music balancer at the BBC. During this period she became aware of developments in synthetic sound and began experimenting with tape recorders. She also spent some time in the 1940s composing music, which remained unperformed, including an orchestal work entitled Still Point. In the 1950s she was promoted to become a music studio manager and, following a trip to the RTF studios in Paris, began to campaign for the BBC to provide electronic music facilities for composing sounds and music, using electronic music and musique concr?te techniques, for use in its programming....