The Alchemists Of Sound
March 25th, 2010 | music
I’ve mentioned recently that I love a good BBC music documentary. And bemoaned that they never seem to make it to DVD. Well, last night, I turned up the 2003 docu THE ALCHEMISTS OF SOUND on the You Tubes. Which is, yes, about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. (I’ll be over this by the weekend, I swear). Here’s the first part, the others are linked in the Related bar on the clickthrough:
yipppe! Really liked that quite a lot. I grew up on Doctor Who and Hitch Hikers guide. It is interesting to know how the sounds were created.
Nice one again Warren. No need to be over this dude, I have since watched and reposted the excellent docs u linked on Hawkwind and prog rock. Gr8 stuff x
you might be interested in this…
http://silentlight.blogspot.com/2009/02/two-machines-2-oramics.html
I bet you won’t – there’s an hour-long doc on Radio 4 on Saturday night: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rl2ky
brilliant—but WHO’S THAT LITTLE OLD MAN?
Very cool. I first saw this a few years ago — when you first posted a link to it! Still cool to revisit. (And I loved that prog rock doc you mentioned, too.)
one of the best things ive seen in ages… stumbled across it after listening to a radio 4 program about DELIA DERBYSHIRE … BUT !!!! the big question is WHO IS THE GUY IN THE BACKGROUND ???? I know the clock is to do with when they started up the workshop and that he represents the bbc looking over their shoulders but who is he??????