Daphne Oram

Daphne Oram (1925–2003) was a key figure in the development of British experimental electronic music. Having started as a music balancer at the BBC, she later become the co-founder and first director of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Oram left in 1959 to pursue commercial work in television, advertising, film and theater, to make her own music, and continue her research into sound technology. Her home, a former oasthouse in Kent, became an unorthodox studio where she developed pioneering equipment, sounds, and ideas, most famously her Oramics machine – an audio-visual synthesizer offering its own chapter in the history of sound synthesis.