Daphne Oram

It gives you a unique sound world for people to step into.

And like you say, it's playful, but it's also challenges you technically, because if you go back to people like Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, the originals of sound design, really to be able to hear something like a lampshade and go, Ooh, that could sound really nice.

If I just cut off the transient at the start, if I just scooped out, filtered certain frequencies, added loads of reverb, echo, whatever.

So actually there's a lot going on technically there.

And...

Daphne Oram had been to Paris to see what was happening there with these two very key composers that were big influences on the Beatles who were profiled in the first chapter.

And they created Music Concrete, which you may have heard of, and it's very much kind of It's a radiophonic technique.

It's working with tape to speed sounds up.

So space travel and the supernatural and the subconscious and all these things that were kind of popular in culture.

And Pierre Henry and Pierre Schaffer were working in Paris to do this.

Daphne Oram went to see what they were doing at their studio and then brought that back to London and established the Radiophonic Workshop.

And Paul McCartney went to see Delia Derbyshire.