In 1959 Daphne Oram produced a novel method of synthesis, her " Oramics " technique, driven by drawings on a 35 mm film strip ; it was used for a number of years at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

In the later years of the series many Goon Show ' grams ' were produced for the series by members of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, a notable example being the famous " Major Bloodnok's Stomach " effect, realised by Dick Mills.

The distinctive accompanying sound effect – a cyclic wheezing, groaning noise – was originally created in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop by Brian Hodgson.

The BBC Radiophonic Workshop, one of the sound effects units of the BBC, was created in 1958 to produce effects and new music for radio, and was originally closed in March 1998, although much of its traditional work had already been outsourced by 1995.

When the BBC noticed the rising popularity of this method they established a Radiophonic Effects Committee, setting up the Workshop in rooms 13 & 14 of the BBC's Maida Vale studios with a budget of £ 2, 000.

Following the decision to close the Radiophonic Workshop, Mark Ayres and Brian Hodgson were commissioned to catalogue its extensive library of recordings.

In October 2003, Alchemists of Sound, an hour-long television documentary about the Radiophonic Workshop, was broadcast on BBC Four.

The Magnetic Fields titled the first track of their album Holiday, after the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

Dick Mills, BBC Radiophonic Workshop reunion live at the Roundhouse in 2009.

In May 2009, Dick Mills reunited with former BBC Radiophonic Workshop composers Roger Limb, Paddy Kingsland and Peter Howell with archivist Mark Ayres for a live concert at The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London, performing as " The Radiophonic Workshop ".

The techniques initially used by the Radiophonic Workshop were closely related to those used in musique concrète ; new sounds for programs were created by using recordings of everyday sounds such as voices, bells or gravel as raw material for " radiophonic " manipulations.

The Radiophonic Workshop regularly released free journals of its experiments to the public, complete with instructions and wiring diagrams.

The special sounds for Blake's 7 were provided by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop composers Richard Yeoman-Clark and Elizabeth Parker.

Delia Derbyshire, an early pioneer of electronic music and one of the founders of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, was refused an interview for a sound engineer's job because Decca would not employ a woman in such a post.

Category: BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Category: BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Moving to Britain in the 1950s, Grainer collaborated with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop on a number of television series themes, including Giants of Steam ( a documentary about railways ) and in 1963 the science fiction series Doctor Who.

" Perkins also drew " on the resources of the Radiophonic Workshop " to help create the groundbreaking audio effects for the series.

Series music was by Dudley Simpson with Brian Hodgson and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

Beginning in the late 1950s the BBC Radiophonic Workshop began using tape loops to add special effects to some BBC programming.

One of the best-known applications of the ring modulator may be its use by Brian Hodgson of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop to produce the distinctive voice of the Daleks and the Cybermen in the television series Doctor Who, starting in 1963.

Broadcast on BBC2 on 18 February 1969, the story was dramatised by Robert Muller and directed by Rudolph Cartier and the music and sound effects were created by Delia Derbyshire of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

Much of The Radiophonic Workshop's early work was in effects for radio, in particular experimental drama and " radiophonic poems ".

The official name of the facility was Radiofoniczny Ośrodek Nadawczy w Konstantynowie ( Radiophonic Transmission Center Konstantynow ), Radiowe Centrum Nadawcze w Konstantynowie ( Radio Transmission Center Konstantynow ) or Warszawska Radiostacja Centralna ( WRC ) w Gąbinie ( Warsaw Central Radio Station Gabin ).

These tracks were created especially for the serial by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, overseen by Desmond Briscoe ; their work on Quatermass and the Pit was one of the productions for which Briscoe and the Workshop became most renowned.

The episode, " The Scarlet Capsule ", was written by Spike Milligan, and used the original BBC Radiophonic Workshop sound effects made for the television serial.

The series ' theme music was written by film and television composer Ron Grainer ( who would later go on to also compose the theme to The Prisoner, among others ) in collaboration with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

The film was directed by Mick Jackson and includes music composed by Peter Howell of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

This unit was first known as the " Digitana " but was later dubbed " The Delaware ", after Delaware Rd, Maida Vale, the location of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

Between 30 and 40 units were built, and these enjoyed wide use in the 1970s and beyond ; one model was sold to the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and was used extensively on BBC productions including Doctor Who, Blake's 7 and the original radio version of The Hitchhikers ' Guide to the Galaxy.

Known as the " Delaware " arrangement ( the BBC Radiophonic Workshop was based on Delaware Road in west London ), it proved unpopular with BBC executives, so the original Delia Derbyshire theme was restored, although an early edit of episode 5 still contains the " Delaware " music and was used for the VHS release.

He and Lewis-Smith produced a documentary about the now-defunct BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Alchemists of Sound, which was broadcast on BBC Four in October 2003.

* In 2002, Paddy Kingsland and Peter Howell's incidental music was released on the compilation album Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 4: Meglos & Full Circle.

* Paddy Kingsland's incidental music for the serial was released, in 2002, as part of the compilation album Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 4: Meglos & Full Circle.

In 1972, there was an attempt by Brian Hodgson and Paddy Kingsland, with Delia Derbyshire acting as producer, to modernise the theme tune using the Radiophonic Workshop's modular " Delaware " synthesiser ( named after the Workshop's location at Delaware Road ).

He had first joined the BBC in 1961, and had also worked at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, the BBC's famous electronic music and sound effects department in London.

From the 1990s on he has written music for TV programmes made by British production company Associated Rediffusion ; these include the Channel 4 series ' Inside Victor Lewis-Smith ' ( 1995 ), ' Ads Infinitum ' ( BBC2, 1999 ) and the 2003 documentary on the BBC Radiophonic Workshop ' Alchemists of Sound '.

The new producer also sought to bring the show " into the 1980s ", commissioning a new title sequence, bringing all the incidental music in-house to be produced electronically by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and commissioning Peter Howell of the Workshop to come up with a brand-new arrangement of the series ' famous theme tune.

In the mid-1960s Zinovieff ( who originally qualified as a geologist ) had formed the pioneering electronic music group Unit Delta Plus with Delia Derbyshire and Brian Hodgson of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

One of the best known examples of music featuring reverse tape effects is the Doctor Who theme ( 1963 ), composed by Ron Grainer and realised electronically by Delia Derbyshire of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

The Doctor Who theme is a piece of music composed by Ron Grainer and realised by Delia Derbyshire at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

( The complete version of this arrangement of the music is included as an extra on the DVD release of Carnival of Monsters ; it is also included on the CD release Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop: Volume 2: New Beginnings 1970 – 1980.

Paddy Kingsland ( born 30 January 1947 ) is a composer of electronic music best known for his incidental music for science fiction series on BBC radio and television whilst working at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

It was held at the Chalk Farm Road Roundhouse Theatre and featured on the bill not only a public playing of ' Carnival of Light ' but performances by Unit Delta Plus, whose members included early electronic music pioneers Delia Derbyshire, Brian Hodgson from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and fellow electronic artist Peter Zinovieff.

Incidental music and sound effects were provided by Desmond Briscoe of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and these proved significant in setting the mood of the play – sections were later used in a BBC educational programme on the effectiveness of incidental music.

Clarke proved somewhat controversial when he joined the workshop, due to his views that Radiophonic music should be, in his words, " fine art ," a philosophy that was not shared by other workshop members at the time.

Clarke produced the music for this serial on the Radiophonic Workshop's EMS Synthi 100 synthesizer.