Delia Derbyshire
An audiological chronology

ChangeLog

Version 2.33, 20 January 2013

• Dated Radio Newsreel to 1963.
• Renamed "Anger of Achilles" to "The Anger of Achilles" (its title in the PRS records)
• Renamed Electrosonic's "Electrostrings" to "Electrostings"
• "Ape" is "Ape and Essence" & moved from Undated to 1966

Version 2.32, 5 June 2012

• Added audio for ESL104 and Electrosonic library albums
• Mention the wikidelia
• Added links from all piece titles to their entries in the WikiDelia
• Corrected date of Music of Spheres from 1971 to late 1970.

Version 2.31, 2 February 2012

• Added more pieces mentioned in her papers: Early Morning, Le Pont Mirabeau, Music to Undress to.
• Dated The Cyprian Queen: 1964.

Version 2.30, 13 September 2011

• Removed audio and papers.

Version 2.29, 8 September 2011

• Added audio

Version 2.28, 21 August 2011

• Corrected track name "Arabic Science and History" to "and Industry".
• Added more pieces mentioned in her papers: Cloud, Radio Newsreel, Science Serves The Arts, Spin, Philips, Tiger Talks, Bring Back, "F. Y. in T.", Oliver Twist, The Tower.
• Reordered some items for better chronological order
• Better quality hi-res version of the most famous photo.
• Added mediafire source for the music from The Legend Of Hell House.
• Removed all the nasty "Buy from Amazon" buttons.

Version 2.27, 5 August 2011

• Added many more pieces existent only in her papers.
• Put the "Undated" section into alphabetical order.
• Added audio for Anger of Achilles.
• Added track list for O Fat White Woman.
• Added letterhead and logo for Unit Delta Plus.
• Added more and better images.

Version 2.26, 1 August 2011

• Added Blackburn's comment to her reasons for leaving BBC.
• Added the Delia mailing list to References
• Changed site URL from delia-derbyshire.dyndns.org to delia-derbyshire.net
• Changed my email from yahoo.it to gmail.com
• Added music for The Cracksman
• Added Morse code musician newspaper article
• Added image to O Fat White Woman and somewhere you can buy a copy.
• The Delian Mode can be heard as backing to a 1969 'Sky At Night' special at about 19'30".
• Added "The Bagman", from a note in her papers.
• Added I.E.E.100, the 1964 version of The Dreams, Invention for Radio No.3: The Afterlife and something of Invention for Radio No.4: The Evenings of Certain Lives.
• Got higher resolution version of Electric Storm album cover and added record label and CD inlay.
• Extra graphics for Unit Delta Plus.
• Put "Articles and interviews" in chronological order.
• Added transcript of "Dial a tune" article.

Version 2.25, 27 March 2009

• Added "About Bridges", a second film by Hooykaas and Stansfield.
• Added "Oh Dear, What Can The Matter Be?"
• Confirmed date of Ziwzih as 1966.

Version 2.24, 19 October 2008

• Dropped "intro" and "outro" lines from the Inventions for Radio
• Highlight all direct Delia quotes with italic font.
• Put all "Released/Broadcast/Available as" lines in small font.
• Embolden titles in list of Doctor Who's.
• Fix broken links to millenniumeffects' Doctor Who discography.
• Include detail for various Doctor Who remixes.
• Doctor Who 1963 broadcast and 1964 single versions are the same.
• Add Delia's "stamp of approval" version of Doctor Who.
• Add Macbeth and Hamlet entries to the main listing.
• Found Work Is A Four Letter Word audio.
• Found Legend Of Hell House audio.
• Add "Classic Britannia" interview listing from the Boob.
• Mention release of Synchrondipity Machine on The Electronic Bible - Hymn Book.
• Add "Carnival of Light" to "other works" section.
• Add links to Clive Blackburn's website.
• Correct spelling of Een Van Die Dagen director's name.
• Reorder some items to avoid overlapping images.

Version 2.23, 15 October 2008

• The 1965 Tomorrow's World episode is now viewable at the Bradford, UK National Media Museum.
• Added source for "Work is a Four-Letter Word" film
• Wider-field miniatures of "Delia cutting tape" and "seated with pen" images and bigger enlargement of the latter.
• Reworked Doctor Who section and included Mills quote.
• Added Kara Blake's forthcoming biographical film.
• Fixed broken link to Spozio T-shirt image.
• Added Electrosonic sleeve notes.
• Added the 1965 picture.
• Added the Bradford bootleg video.
• Found Amor Dei audio.

Version 2.22, 10 November 2007

• Ray White's page (in References) has moved.

Version 2.21, 27 October 2007

• Mirror site has changed name due to parent domain being sold.
• Add table of contents at top

Version 2.20, 6 October 2007

• Finally got the audio for Circle of Light. Added a brief description and moved the item to the main section.
• Added entries for the third and fourth Inventions for Radio: The After-Life and The Evenings of Certain Lives
• Added a third video clip.
• Added more detail about Anger of Achilles.
• Merged the two separate entries for Wrapping Event
• The BBC Radio Scotland interview is with John *Cavanagh*.
• Fixed name of Invention for Radio 1 from "Within Dreams" to "The Dreams".
• Estimated 1966 for Ziwzih Ziwzih Oo-Oo-Oo from Radio Times clippings.
• Estimated a year for A New View of Politics from the first broadcast date.
• Added an image of Legend of Hell House DVD cover.
• Added an image of reverse of album cover of Out Of This World
• Added the photo of Luisa Prosser to the Standing Wave play.
• Cropped the still from "tape loops" to eliminate black border.
• Added links to BBC Programme Catalogue for radio/TV transmission dates.
• Added links to Amazon for everything that's available there.
• Added named anchors to all entries.
• Added British Library catalogue entry for Amor Dei.
• Added a link to the Delian mailing list.
• Changed all "-- d-d.org" references to delia-derbyshire.org links.
• Replaced references to dead sites with links to copies at archive.org.
• Made Tributes and Biographical Plays into headed sections.
• Made each piece a separate headings rather than items in a bulletted list.
• Promoted the "sound effect" tracks to first-class pieces.
• Sorted into chronological order and put undated pieces between 1965 and 1966.
• Added index at the start.
• Removed leading google ads, leaving those at the end.

Version 2.19, 16 September 2007

• Added audio for Synchrondipity Machine
• Moan about Roland Collection taking payment but not delivering the goods.
• Added donation button and Google ads. Sigh, times are hard...
• Added Iddod's tribute "For Delia" audio and site.
• Added sources of Electrosonic: Boa Melody Bar, Boomkat and RapidShare.
• Promoted the music for the 1967 Yoko Ono Wrapping Event film from a rumour to its place in main list and add the ICA program listing for its screening in 2004.
• The deleted pansiecola.com site has now also been blocked by the Internet Archive; this in now the only copy of the Sonic Boom interview.
• Add additional release of Psychadelian Waltz on "Now We Are Ten" Trunk Records JBH 024CD.
• Added a link to a copy of the "Tape Loops" video clip on You Tube.
• Added availability of Electrosonic vinyl at Boomkat and download from RapidShare
• Added a transcription of the Computer Music Journal's obituary.
• Added John Cavanagh's sleeve notes to the Glo-spot reissue of Electrosonic.
• Fixed various spelling/typing errors.

Version 2.18, 1 January 2007

• Added GloSpot reissue of Electrosonic

Version 2.17, 19 December 2006

• Added a transcript of the BBC Radio Scotland Interview
• Added quotes from the above to the relevant articles.
• Mention publication of Blue Veils radio play on CD.
• Mention Mark Ayres' History of the Doctor Who Theme.
• Added screenshot from The Prophet to Ziwzih article.
• Add detail and source for "Circle of Light".
• Added "Random Together 1" and programme text.
• Corrected typos and removed some repeated/redundant stuff.

Version 2.16, 10 April 2006

• Mention American mirror site above title
• Mention that PRS records have not been integrated yet.
• Added second video clip

Version 2.15, 6 April 2006

• The background figure in the first photo is Desmond Briscoe.
• Corrected REC25CD to REC25MCD in BBCRW "Pink Album" sidebar
• Revised intro part about stuff in BBC Sound Archive.
• Fix HTML page title from "Martin's DD page" to "DDAC"
• Correct misheard word in Vorhaus interview: [glued] -> delivered
• Updated ESL104 info from Trunk Records rerelease.

Version 2.14, 4 January 2006

• Made local copies from archive.org of the ex-sounds and dotdotdotmusic sites, which have since disappeared from the net
• Changed cause of death from breast cancer to liver/kidney failure.
• Moved the above item into correct chronological order. Such pointless precision over something so sad.
• Added mention of Wade and Cookson's 2005 BBC radio play.
• Removed duplicate of "Most of it" story in Dr Who item.

Version 2.13, 25 December 2005

• Added Oct 2005 reissue of Delia's Psychadelian Waltz.
• Found full audio Chronicle and Chromophone Band.
• Reordered references to "Queen of the Wired Frontier" Observer article and removed garbage from local copy.
• Added list of Dr Who versions according to heritage@easy.com.au.
• Added album cover at start of Doctor Who entry.
• Added lyrics for "Here Come The Fleas".
• Added tribute by Pippa Murphy.
• Removed garbage from local copy of The Scotsman article.

Version 2.12, 9 November 2005

• Found audio for Talk Out, Know Your Car, Time On Our Hands.
• Found different version of Environmental Studies.
• Added length of John Peel's voice.
• Corrected length of Time On Our Hands (00:23 -> 01:12).
• Fixed broken position of track length of Tutenkhamun's Egypt.
• Added image of "Grain" album cover.
• Added larger full-colour image of Work Is A Four Letter Word cover/poster.
• Added cover image and track list for the Rephlex album.
• Fixed typo "th Internet".
• Added Mail on Sunday article.
• Removed my disparaging remark about reelingwriting music downloads.
• Improved image loading by specifying dimensions and alternate text in all.
• Changed "most important" to "one of the most influential".
• Added time of first broadcast of "Ziwzih" TV programme.
• Added details for "Blue Veils" lampshade and photo of the real thing.

Version 2.11, 22 August 2005

• Added contact footnote to Graham Harris' tribute.
• Added reference to The Temple of Aggedor's Dr Who Signature Theme Music Gallery.
• Added "Alchemists of Sound" image and video clip.
• Added list of musical tributes and Reeling & Writhing's theatrical production.
• Found audio for John Peel's voice.
• Better hi-res version of "Delia at the BBC" photo.
• Added reference to Bradford Museum's Tomorrow's World episode.

Version 2.10, July 2005

• Added Graham Harris' personal tribute.

Version 2.9, May 2005

• Found audio for "Heat" and also 160kbps version of "Icy Peaks".
• Added quote from Electric Storms sleeve notes.
• Added section for "special thanks" on Sonic Boom's albums.
• Added Staggering Stories article reference.
• Added scotsman.com article
• Added image for "Work is a Four-Letter Word"
• Added observer "Queen of the Wired Frontier" article
• Added Google search link to find reviews of "Alchemists of Sound"
• Changed "click on image for larger version" to underlined captions

Version 2.8, 11 August 2004

• Added credit for Mark the Bus.
• Added reference and links to the Internet Archive.
• Many corrections to the Vorhaus Interview transcript.

Version 2.7, 26 June 2004

• Adding two missing links from BBCRW21 track list to main listing.
• Fixed wierdness in OOTW IMG ALT text.

• Removed all links to copyrighted audio leaving track times.

• Added the Interview with Sonic Boom in the Articles section.
• Added a different The Delian Mode audio, encoded from an AIFF from vinyl.
• Added credits.

• Fixed broken link for "Dreaming".
• Added audio for "Frozen Waste".
• Found a better image for "Out Of This World" album cover.
• Added link to track listing for "Out Of This World"
• Added second source "Essential Science Fiction Sound Effects, vol. 2" containing the "Out Of This World" tracks.
• Fixed a dozen typos and details.

• "Time on our Hands" MP3 link pointed to the Ogg file.
• Added this ChangeLog.

• Tracklists are now in small font.

• Added text for two film musics cited on imdb.com

• First public version.

• First private version.