To this day, I have an enormous musical crush on Delia Derbyshire’s work. I simply CANNOT wait to be able to browse this archive, and if anyone involved in this planned project to commission new peices inspired by her work is reading – sign me up.
Create Digital Music » Archivist Responds: Yes, Virginia, Delia Derbyshire Really Was That Awesome
David Butler of the University of Manchester was one of two archivists who started undertaking the work of assembling a library of Derbyshire’s ground-breaking work. He writes in CDM’s comments that this is no BBC special effect: the recordings are very much real. He also clears up some of the confusion about their discovery, and offers more on the tantalizing cut “NOAH’s dance.”
