Category: Maddalena Fagandini
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20th January 1961 – Things that go Bump in the Night broadcast (BBC Home Service)
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A World Of Sound series brings us ‘An anthology of ghosts’ with ‘Sound score by: The Radiophonic Workshop’ in the guise of Maddalena Fagandini
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3rd October 1960 – Music for Party Political Conferences broadcast (BBC tv)
Also known as Time Beat, Maddalena Fagandini’s rhythm track had slightly less ‘fab’, and rather more obscure, origins.
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15th August 1960 – The Artist Speaks: Victor Pasmore broadcast (BBC tv)
‘The most significant factor about this approach to painting and sculpture, completely free from representation, is that it provides a completely new and more dynamic relationship between the Work of art, the artist and the spectator… if it were large enough he could get into it’. (BBC Television film) “Abstract sound by: The BBC Radiophonic…
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19th June 1960 – Twentieth Century Theatre: 1923: The Insect Play broadcast (BBC tv)
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Also known as Pictures from the Insects’ Life this play, written by Karel and Josef Čapek, was presented here with music by Maddelena Fagandini. Although it was not a great production overall this was apparently a major commission for the Workshop.
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1960 – Interval Signal
Maddalena’s other rhythm. “One of the many interval signals that filled the gaps between TV programmes” – Brian Hodgson, Radiophonic 21.
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20th August 1959 – Rhinoceros broadcast (Third Programme)
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“…Rhinoceros, where the herds of thundering pachyderms choke the characters with dust and drown their cries with their trumpetings” (Michael Bakewell, Radio Times). Maddalena Fagandini has fond memories of this production.
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6th April 1959 – Science and Industry logged into the BBC Recorded Programmes Permanent Library
Science and Industry was the first electronic signature tune for a BBC radio programme, making it a landmark worthy of special attention. I say tune but this is quite a challenging sequence of musical scenes from Phil Young. Although there’s no information on when it was first used in a broadcast it was entered into…
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19th February 1959 – ‘Outside’ broadcast (BBC tv)
Following almost a year after their first television job (see Amphitryon 38, March 1958) Desmond is now teamed up with Maddalena Fagandini (with assistance form Dick Mills) for Outside, which may also be their first documentary.