Delia Derbyshire was instrumental in setting up the BBC Radiophonic workshop after ww II. Wrote the Dr Who theme!!
Daphne Oram set up her own sound studio.
Jo Hutton - musicologist.
Elaine Radigue worked closely with Pierre Henry.
Music of Bebe Barron (together with husband Louis) was described by Anaïs Nin: "a molecule had stubbed its toe". They did the sound for "Forbidden Planet"! Bebe Barron: "The monster was the most difficult thing. The dying of Morbius was the actual dying of the circuits". Some bigshots of the movie/msuic industry did not allow the soundtrack - first completely electronic soundtrack ever - to be called music, afraid for their jobs. Thus they are credited as "electronic tonalities by Louis and Bebe Barron"
Pauline Oliveros used an accordeon?! "I used a bathbtub for reverberation". She was a woman, gay and played avant garde music. Every single one of those things would be difficult in the 1960's. She had all three.
Wrote a piece 'Don't call me a "Lady" composer'... which is a strange echo from the past reverberating my frustration with gay or female writers being asked "what being gay or female" meant to them.... while no man is ever asked what being male means to him or influenced his art! As it shouldn't! Don't ask them, as you don't ask him! They are writers, composers, artists. Like "him". We should switch it around. Ask males "how/why" them being male influenced their work. ffs. Doesn't this species ever learn?
Pauline Oliveros - "Listening is the basis of creativity in culture"
Laurie Spiegel wrote "Music mouse" ... in the 80s? Should really look into her.
Wendy Carlos; her of "A Clockwork Orange" fame.
Playwriters were writing very surreal plays after the war. They needed surreal sounds.
