“New sound” – suggestive of emotion, sensation and mood – is being produced at Britain’s first radiophonic workshop in Maida Vale Set up by the BBC to supply an aid to productions, its plant and devices were joyously sounded off by technicians for the benefit of newspapermen to-day.”
For long it has been accepted that coconut shells clapped together suggest a better clattering of horses than the real thing. To-day, a step further, a mijwiz or Arabic double reed pipe was shown tobe more realistic – and simpler cacophony of car horns than the authentic noise. The boffins babbled of electronic wave forms filtering and feed-back, not to sat “white noise”.
London Letter ‘Inside Facts’ Birmingham Post 23rd May, 1958
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