Welcome to Delia Derbyshire Day!
Delia Derbyshire Day (DD Day) is a Manchester-based organisation which pays homage to Delia Derbyshire (1937-2001). Our work is centred around the Delia Derbyshire Archive which is held at John Rylands Library in Manchester, UK.
We feel this collection is a gem of electronic music that is a rich resource for education of electronic music and inspiration for creating new music and art.
We hope you will find here all the information you require and/or desire about our organisation, our cultural heritage events and our hands on electronic music making activities. Do get in touch via our Contact page if you need or want any more information.
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Hello folks! Sharing the wonderful composition "Dreaming Waves" by Emma Margetson which premiered at our event last Dec with BEAST - directly inspired by #DeliaDerbyshire work on Inventions for Radio and her archive sound and notes housed at The John Rylands Library
Dreaming Waves (8 channel stereo reduction)
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Dreaming Waves is inspired by the work, Inventions for Radio: The Dreams by Delia Derbyshire and Barry Bermange, in particular the movements Falling and Sea. This piece explores the cyclic motion andOur Latest News
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