About this minute
- Title
- Contrasts Essconic
- Creator
- Daphne Oram
- Contributor
- Daphne Oram Trust
- Year
- 1968 – 1969
- Location
- London, England
- Collections
- Collection 1 , IWD 2020
- Related resource guides
- Sound art, Compositions , Electronic sound , Oramics machine , Pitch , Timbre
Collection 1 #34
In 1962, Daphne Oram invented a way to make sounds using pictures and symbols. She called this ‘Oramics’ and eventually she designed The Oramics Machine. The Oramics Machine could read symbols drawn on film and turn them into music and sound. Daphne invented an ‘alphabet of symbols’ that could be fed through the machine to...
