Category: Print Article
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24th May 1958 – The Times – BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop
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A “workshop” for producing synthetic sounds, partly by electronic oscillators and partly by trickery with conventional sounds recorded on tape, has been set up by the B.B.C. at their Maida Vale studios. It is being used to provide an imaginative background to drama productions which cannot be obtained from ordinary music or from the stock-in-trade…
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23rd May 1958 Birmingham Post – ‘Sound – with Mood’
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“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.”
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2nd February 1958 – Birmingham Post previews A Winter Journey
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“This is the first application the BBC has made of this technique to a dramatic production not specially written for the purpose. Radiophonic sound is the imaginative use of sound specially created to convey emotional effects in a way neither actors nor conventional sounds or music can achieve.”