BBC Radiophonic Workshop's BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective (Weir William L.)(Paperback)

In 1958, an anonymous group of overworked and under-budgeted BBC employees set out to create some innovative sounds for radio and TV. They ended up sending the music of the 20th century in a whole new direction. The BBC Radiophonic Workshop pioneered some of the earliest electronic music and broadcast it to audiences of millions. They created TV's best-known theme music, for Doctor Who. But it also created groundbreaking scores for news programs, auto maintenance shows, and children's programming, using sampling, loops and the earliest synthesizers - long before its listeners had any idea of what these techniques were. The Beatles and Pink Floyd borrowed from them. And a generation of musicians - Aphex Twin, Portishead, and Prodigy among them - raised on BBC programming and these once alien sounds has carried on the Workshop's legacy. Ignored for decades by music historians, the
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