This is Delia Derbyshire

Delia Derbyshire — Collection of Interviews & Articles

This is Delia Derbyshire

Delia Derbyshire portrait

This was made in 1968 by Delia Derbyshire.

1. Year - 1999

Interviewer: Would it be fair to say that you've often applied a mathematical relationship to music, or that you see the two overlapping?

Delia : Oh, absolutely. Yeah, yeah. There's been, since the ancient Greeks, a very close link between music and mathematics.

Interviewer : Since Pythagoras, in theory.

Delia : Well, since Pythagoras in mythology... The Fibonacci sequence people have been using for centuries.

Full interview – delia-derbyshire.net

2. Story of Making of the Doctor Who Theme Music

Delia at BBC Workshop

There being no “synthesisers”, the Workshop needed a source of electronic sound...

Read full – Effectrode article

Delia working Delia recording

3. Delia based on an interview with Clive Blackburn

HER body wrecked by alcoholism, her good looks all but obliterated, Delia Derbyshire slipped almost unnoticed from coma to death in a Northamptonshire hospital... Within months she had completed the theme for Doctor Who.

Read full – Mail on Sunday archive

4. Paul McCartney & Delia Derbyshire

Paul McCartney once asked electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire to remake Yesterday in her style.

Read full – The Guardian

5. Delia Derbyshire interview in 1997

"Several have mentioned her voice... I find her voice quite melodic, soothing and easy to listen to. Her music is wonderful." – @dreamthemusicnow

6. In 2000, Jo Hutton interviewed Delia Derbyshire

"Radio had been my love since childhood because I came from just a humble background with relatively few books and radio was my education. It was always my little ambition to get into the BBC."

Full interview

7. Doctor Who Series Breakthrough

"Doctor Who series, which was a breakthrough both for the program and for her career. Using feedback and bits of tape to give the listener a realistic feeling of traveling through space."

Full NPR article

8. The Delia Derbyshire Archive | Podcast

In celebration of Delia Derbyshire Day 2023 and the 60th Anniversary of the Doctor Who theme, Caro C is joined by fellow devotees Mark Ayres, David Butler and Cosey Fanni Tutti to discuss the Delia Derbyshire archives and the importance of her contributions to the development of electronic music.

Listen to the podcast

If you are interested more about her, visit delia-derbyshire.net to see all her works.

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