Phil Young joined the Workshop in 1959
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 the BBC Recorded Programme Permanent Library with this ‘rec’ (recording) date.
AKA The Splendour… Phil Young provides the theme music
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‘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 Workshop” […]
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