BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Sound House Music From The BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Tracklist Hide Credits

A1	–Peter Howell, Roger Limb, Jonathan Gibbs, Malcolm Clarke, Elizabeth Parker, Dick Mills	Radiophonic Rock
A2	–Peter Howell	Lascaux Flute – Sebastian Bell
A3	–Jonathan Gibbs	Computers In The Real World
A4	–Dick Mills	Seascape
A5	–Paddy Kingsland	The Whale
A6	–Roger Limb	Rallyman Drums – Pete York
A7	–Dick Mills	Catch The Wind
A8	–Malcolm Clarke	Believe It Or Not Trombone – Eddie Lorkin
A9	–Elizabeth Parker	Planet Earth
A10	–Jonathan Gibbs	Dawn
B1	–Peter Howell	Mainstream Written By – Henry VIII
B2	–Malcolm Clarke	The Unseeing Eye
B3	–Peter Howell, Dick Mills	Fancy Fish Written By – Camille Saint-Saëns
B4	–Paddy Kingsland	Brighton Pier
B5	–Dick Mills	Armagiddean War Games
B6	–Roger Limb	Yellow Moon
B7	–Elizabeth Parker	Radio Blackburn
B8	–Dick Mills	Macrocosm
B9	–Peter Howell	Land And People
B10	–Jonathan Gibbs	Houdin's Musical Box Written By – A. le Charpentier
B11	–Roger Limb	Ghost In The Water
B12	–Malcolm Clarke	The Milonga

Credits

• Compiled By – Roger Limb

Notes

"Wee have also sound-houses, where wee practise and demonstrate all sounds, and their generation. Wee have harmonies which you have not, quarter-sounds, and lesser slides of sounds. Diverse instruments of musick likewise to you unknowne, some sweeter than any you have. Together with bells and rings that are dainty and sweet. Wee represent small sounds as great and deepe; likeweise great sounds extenuate and sharpe; wee make diverse tremblings and warblings of sounds, which in their original are entire. Wee represent and imitate all articulate sounds and letters, and the voices and notes of beasts and birds. Wee have certaine helps which sett to the eare doe further the hearing greatly. Wee have also diverse strange and artificial ecchos, reflecting the voice many times, and as it were tossing it: and some that give back the voice lowder than it come, some shriller, and some deeper; yea, some rendering the voice differing in the letters or articulate sound from that they receive. Wee have also means to convey sounds in trunks and pipes, in strange lines and distances."

Extracts from "The New Atlantis" by Francis Bacon, 1624

From time to time, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and BBC Records have issued L.P. compilations presenting a cross-section of output of the Workshop. The last retrospective album was released in 1979 on the occasion of the Workshop's 21st anniversary. Here now is a new collection of tracks illustrating some of the work that has been completed at the Workshop in the 4 years since then. The most significant advances in technique since 1979 have been in the field of computer technology and at the Workshop we are now using the Fairlight Computer Synthesizer examples of which can be heard on this record. There a couple of other new departures here too. We have, of course, for many years incorporated into our work, when appropriate, musicians playing conventional instruments. There are 4 examples of blending of electronic and conventional music in this collection. We have also have a rather unique Radiophonic event. Each composer has taken a rhythmic percussive sequence from the Fairlight, and written about half a minute of their own music around it. This musical 'autograph album' is the track 'Radiophonic Rock' [Track 1].

Despite technological process, the Radiophonic Workshop is still what it was when it first came into existence 25 years ago, a creative service department supplying special sound and music to BBC programme makers. In 25 years from now, who knows what sounds will be heard coming from behind the doors of our corridor in BBC's Maida Vale studios? One thing is certain, the new technology makes the road ahead an interesting one

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
REC 467	BBC Radiophonic Workshop	The Soundhouse: Music From The BBC Radiophonic Workshop ‎(LP, Album)	BBC Records	REC 467	UK	1983
SILLP1511	BBC Radiophonic Workshop	The Soundhouse: Music From The BBC Radiophonic Workshop ‎(LP, Album, RE, RM, Yel)	Silva Screen	SILLP1511	UK	2016
SILCD1511	BBC Radiophonic Workshop	The Soundhouse: Music From The BBC Radiophonic Workshop ‎(CD)	Silva Screen	SILCD1511	UK	2016