Excited to tell you about forthcoming album Vari/ations – An Ode to Oram forthcoming on Non Classical on Novemeber the 5th, Mieko Shimizu and I co created a special track, in keeping with my radio air garden project. We recorded plants using my midi sprout, which turns plant bio data into music, choosing the tje best pollution absobers from Daphne Orams Tower Folly garden, as well as having access to unheard samples from her archive, which we mixed into the track. It was interesting to hear Orams work in this way and used ome of the techniques she used, which was music stretching to create new instruments which is something I replicated with her voice. I’ve really enjoyed working with Mieko as we have different approaches to this so it was fun to combine ideas, we used the melodies generated by the plants and let that guide the work which unfolds and changes like the seasons.
The track we made is called Folly Tower Blooms after a photo of her garden in the archive and it features geraniums, coltsfoot, lilac, elderflower and others.
The “Vari/ations – An Ode to Oram” LP out on November but you can preorder it, all compositions on it use samples from pioneering electronic artist Daphne Oram’s archive. The 10-track album includes pieces by: Cosey Fanni Tutti, Arushi Jain, Lola de la Mata, afromerm + abi asisa, Magz Hall + Mieko Shimizu, TAAHLIAH, Deena Abdelwahed, Marta Salogni, Félicia Atkinson, Nwando Ebizie, and xname.
Vari/ations – An Ode to Oram
The whole alum teatures new music commissioned by contemporary electronic artists who use tapes and sounds from Daphne Oram’s archive to create new works.
Pre order and more details at
https://nonclassical.bandcamp.com/…/vari-ations-ode-to…
Inspiration: A centenary celebration of Daphne Oram’s pioneering legacy and centenary
The pioneering electronic sounds of Daphne Oram reimagined feature tracks from TAAHLIAH, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Marta Salogni, Arushi Jain. and others using tapes from Oram’s archive.
To mark the centenary of overlooked electronic pioneer Daphne Oram, Nonclassical – together with the Oram Trust and Oram Awards – have commissioned new music by a set of contemporary visionary electronic artists celebrating the next generation of trailblazers.
This group of artists span early-career to high-profile DJs and musicians across diverse electronic worlds, representing a spectrum of distinct practises – from uncompromising club beats, performance art and sound art to ambient music and deconstructed future-forward Arabic dance music.
The artists have created these new works using samples from Oram’s archive – housed at Goldsmiths, University of London – which features a mix of sound clips covering not only her innovative Oramics machine and other electronic music, but also match strikes, cat purrs, scraped objects and commercial jingles as well as recordings of Oram’s own voice.
Magz Hall 
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