BLOGGER: cameron jack
LOCATION: scottish borders
BAND: the stark palace
LABEL: shark batter records
I've noticed (courtesy of The Times obituary column) that this past few weeks has seen the demise of two pioneers of electronic music.
Tristram Cary (son of novelist Joyce Cary) helped develop the VCS3 synthesizer, which was used on Pink Floyd's Dark Side of The Moon and by Brian Eno, amongst many others. It was seen as the only serious competitor to the better known Moog. He also scored the first episode of Dr. Who to feature the Daleks,The Dead Planet, and contributed to further episodes and series, including The Daleks Masterplan. His music, along with that of Delia Derbyshire and the rest of the B.B.C. Radiophonic Workshop more than made up for any shortcomings in the prop department!
Also the recently departed Bebe Barron, who is credited, along with her husband Louis with composing the first ever music on tape. I was impressed to discover that they wrote the score for Forbidden Planet, the first for Hollywood to be completely electronic. I wonder what Shakespeare would have made of it! They had previously set up their own studio in Greenwich Village, where they would frequently record for the likes of Henry Miller, Tennessee Williams and Aldous Huxley, and were approached by M.G.M. after their production chief discovered them by chance at a Beatnik club.
You can find out more about Tristram Cary at tristramcary.com, and Bebe Barron at, wait for it, wikipedia, amongst many others whose addresses are too convoluted to reproduce here!
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