Tape Leaders Book Demo
Tape Leaders Book Demo
Tape Leaders Book Demo
Tape Leaders
Ian Helliwell
A Compendium of Early British Electronic Music Composers
In the form of a richly illustrated compendium,
Tape Leaders is an indispensable reference
guide for anyone interested in electronic sound
and its origins in Great Britain. For the first
time a book sets out information on practically
everyone active with experimental electronics
and tape recording across the country, to
reveal the untold stories and hidden history
of early British electronic music.
36
synthesizer seen in Australia, and remained for six years as a senior Hugh Davies (1943-2005)
lecturer in electro-acoustic composition and music technology. Back Born: Exmouth, Devon
in Britain he has forged a hugely successful career as a composer for Earliest Electronic Work: Essay (1962)
TV, dance, theatre and radio, and with over 300 scores to his credit, Commitment Factor: 8
some of his large scale works have been performed by leading British Obscurity Quotient: 4
EM recording availability: Limited
orchestras. While continuing to write music, he remains Professor of
Composition at the RCM. In January 1961 Davies attended a presentation of electronic music
given by Daphne Oram, at the Mermaid Theatre in London, and his first
tape work as a composer came the following year, when Oram invited
him and a friend for a weekend stay at her Tower Folly studio. He then
inherited from her an unwanted commission to compile a discography
of electronic music for a journal related to the National Sound Archive,
marking the beginning of the research strand of his career. Following
music study at Oxford University from 1961-64, the 21 year old Davies
was taken on by Karlheinz Stockhausen as composing assistant, and
a member of his live performance group. Davies stayed in Cologne
during 1964-66, and was featured on the recording of Stockhausen's
Microphonie 1 released on LP by CBS.
Therearesect
ionsforEMSandt heBBC
Radiophoni
cWor kshop,aswel lasamat eur
s,
groupsandensembl esthatseriously
experi
mentedwithelect
ronics,includi
ngthe
Beatl
es,HawkwindandWhi teNoi se.
Publ
i
shedbySoundOnSoundmagazi
ne.
220pageBook+CD29.
00(
$39.
00)
AuthorIanHelli
welldr
awsonhi sexperienceandknowl
edgeofelectr
onicmusic,andaf t
ersix
year sanddozensofinter
views,hasamassedinfor
mati
onneverbeforebroughttoli
ghtinthi
s
fascinat
ingsubject
.
Wi t
haspeci al
l
ycompi l
ed15- t
rackCDofmai nl
yunrel
easedearl
yBr i
ti
shtapeandsynt hesi
zer
wor ks,t
hisi
sanessentialvol
umef oranyonewit
hanint
eresti
nthehistor
yofelectr
onicmusic
duringthe1950sand60s.
Forf
urt
heri
nfor
mat
ionvi
si
twww.
tapel
eader
s.co.
uk