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Synthesised sounds… with Zakia

Zakia Sewell celebrates the centenary of electronic pioneer Daphne Oram with a stack of synthesised selections, plus a Dreambience mix from Félicia Atkinson.

DJ, broadcaster, writer and dreamer Zakia Sewell provides the soundtrack to your dreams - playing music to ease the mind, soothe the soul, and open portals to new dimensions…

We enter the dreamy world of synthesisers tonight as Zakia celebrates the centenary of the birth of electronic pioneer Daphne Oram. Born 31st December 1925, Oram was the first full-time electronic music composer in Britain, cofounder of the BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop, and the inventor of her own synthesiser - the Oramics machine. Zakia sprinkles through some of Oram’s own works, as well as selections from artists that have followed in her footsteps. There’s music by Grace Jones, Mamman Sani, Loraine James and The Space Lady, as well as brand new music from Duval Timothy, Rosa Brunello and Marta Salogni.

Plus the French sound artist, poet and composer Félicia Atkinson shares a special Dreambience mix dedicated to both Daphne Oram and her cat, with music that echoes her sound as well as Félicia's own field recordings and words from Oram's 1972 book ‘An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics’.

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Sun 30 Nov 202522:00
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Music Played

  • Daphne Oram

    Rotolock

    • Oramics.
    • Paradigm Discs.

  • Daniela Casa

    Fantastico

    • Sovrapposizione Di Immagini.
    • Finders Keepers.

  • Timothy Gray

    It's Raining

    • Lost Coast: Some Visionary Music from California, 1980–1992.
    • Goaty Tapes / House Rules.

  • Domenique Dumont

    Bonjour Tristesse

    • Deux Paradis.
    • Antinote.

  • Qur'an Shaheed

    Dreams

    • Pulse.
    • LEAVING RECORDS.

  • Rosa Brunello

    Uno Punto Uno

    • Women In Jazz Vol. 1.
    • New Soil / Women In Jazz.

  • Daphne Oram

    In A Jazz Style

    • Oramics.
    • Paradigm Discs.

  • Sister Irene O’Connor

    Mass - 'Emmanuel'

    • Fire of God's Love.
    • Freedom To Spend.

  • Grace Jones

    I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)

    • Nightclubbing.
    • Island.

  • Mamman Sani

    Lidda

    • La Musique Électronique Du Niger.
    • Sahel Sounds.

  • KENSO

    Naibu E No Tsukikage (Moon Casting Shadows Within)

    • Kenso II.
    • Pathograph.

  • Duval Timothy

    Was that the last time

    • you go to the middle of nothing.

  • Fabiano Do Nascimento and E Ruscha V

    Solar

    • Aquáticos.
    • Music From Memory.

  • Piero Umiliani

    Volto Di Donna (Synth Version)

    • La Ragazza Fuoristrada.
    • Right Tempo.

  • Daphne Oram

    Pulse Persephone

    • Oramics.
    • Paradigm Discs.

  • Loraine James

    Saying Goodbye (feat. Contour)

    • Gentle Confrontation.
    • Hyperdub.

  • Nico Georis

    Relation Ships

    • Music Belongs To The Universe.
    • LEAVING RECORDS.

  • The Space Lady

    Born to Be Wild

    • Amazing Thingz.
    • Night School.

  • Joe Harvey-Whyte & Geir Sundstøl

    The Tyburn

    • Langeleik.
    • HUBRO.

  • J.D. Emmanuel & Cut 'n Shoot Acapello Choir

    J.S Bach's Fugue in G-minor

    • Classicus Electronicus, 1985-1991.

  • Marta Salogni & Daphne Oram

    An Individual Note

    • vari/ations - Ode to Oram.
    • nonclassical.

  • Félicia Atkinson

    Green

    • Promenades.
    • Shelter Press.

  • Félicia Atkinson

    Rose

    • Promenades.
    • Shelter Press.

  • Christina Vantzou & John Also Bennett

    Alfred Hitchcock Haze

    • Thoughts of a Dot as it Travels a Surface.
    • Shelter Press.

  • Félicia Atkinson & Jefre Cantu‐Ledesma

    Indefatigable Purple

    • Limpid As The Solitudes.
    • Shelter Press.

  • JJJJJJerome Ellis

    Savannah Sparrow (for and after Kenita Miller) (Shelter Press)

    • Vesper Sparrow.
    • Shelter Press.

  • François Bonnet

    Banshee (extract)

    • Banshee / Basse Brevis.
    • GRM.

  • Max Winter & IMOGEN

    Lean Into Me

    • Lean Into Me / O Matter - (zero)one.
    • untitled (recs).

Broadcast

  • Sun 30 Nov 202522:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music