Inventing for Radio, Film, Television and Beyond: The Music of Delia Derbyshire

Butler, D. (Speaker)

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Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Research

Description

This presentation focuses on the influential composer and sound designer Delia Derbyshire and her work for film and television in particular. The talk focuses on Derbyshire's post-BBC work and challenges the standard narrative that Derbyshire withdrew from creative activity and composing music in 1973 when she left the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. The presentation includes examples and extracts from projects Derbyshire contributed to into the early 1980s, including collaborations with the visual artists Madelon Hooykaas, Elsa Stansfield and Elisabeth Kozmian, which have been donated to the Delia Derbyshire Archive at the University of Manchester.

Following the talk, there will be a screening of For Delia (2016), a collaboration between the visual artist Mary Stark and David Butler, setting a collage of recordings by Derbyshire held in her archive to film.

Period	18 Jun 2016
Event title	Breaking the Sound Barrier: Women Sounding Out in British and Irish Film and Television
Event type	Conference
Location	London, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of Recognition	National

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Breaking the Sound Barrier was a one-day event organised by the Women’s Film and TV History Network-UK/Ireland, in collaboration with BFI Southbank and supported by MeCCSA Women’s Media Studies Network. Taking place on Saturday 18th June 2016, this one-day event focused on women’s role in the development and production in Britain and Ireland of sound as an integral part of the cinema and television experience. Given the paucity of known research into women’s work on sound media, this event aimed to take stock of past and present achievements and offer a broad introduction, from the pioneering days of British and Irish sound film to the experimental TV workshops of the 1980s, while looking ahead to new challenges and advocating for the development of new research projects.