What is digitaldebris?
- An experiment, an explosion in slow motion, with the auditory fragments infinitely recombining;
- Pushing the boat further from the shore, away from the comforts of home to new ground;
- A lifeboat of contradictions: pretension vs prosaic, meme vs mudane, art vs audio, speech vs sound;
- the flotsam and jetsam washed up on the shore of an increasingly electronic auditory world.
digitaldebris is a new eclectic experimental and music & art podcast run by Tim in London of Radio Clash fame (?).
This podcast specialises in the flotsam and jetsam of the digital and pre-digital worlds, the tracks that have fallen out of mechanical copyright, the orphan audio and charity shop/thriftstore finds, outsider art and podsafe music. And intermixed is various finds from the Internet and elsewhere – YouTube, the internet, performance, spoken word records, radio and TV, stories and poetry.
The aim is to create a thematic mix of all these sources into one program that spans a hundred years of recorded sound; emphasises audio art, insider art, music and sound; and is in itself an experiment against the predominant ‘radio’ format.
2 responses to “About digitaldebris”
Hi Tim, where did you find all those wonderful DD tracks? I’m making a programme about her for Radio 4 and am on the hunt for some of her later non-Radiophonic workshop tracks to include. If there are particular sources other than YouTube I’d love to know what they are.
Thank you for any help you can offer, and I look forward to listening to your pod.
Cheers,
Toby
I got these from a few places, the old Delia Derbyshire site by Martin who commented below but sadly I think the legal bods nuked that. Again and again that seems to happen – us fans archive her work, are told to take it down, but it isn’t released in proper form – I think I said that in the podcast, that we’d all love a full box set of her work!
Trunk Records released her De La Russe work – the Tomorrow’s People soundtrack work – https://www.trunkrecords.com/releases/tomorrow_people_06/tomorrow_people.php which should be fairly easy to track down, it had a CD release. or ask Jonny himself jonny at trunkrecords.com – they also released Circle of Light https://www.discogs.com/Delia-Derbyshire-And-Elsa-Stansfield-Circle-Of-Light-Original-Electronic-Soundtrack/master/1034084 and https://www.discogs.com/Delia-Derbyshire-Standard-Music-Library-Electronic/release/8714514 – maybe also speak to Standard Music Library?
As well as the Tomorrow People one, I have this somewhere in storage – https://www.discogs.com/Delia-Derbyshire-Electrosonic/release/15550634 which was another related library piece she did as De La Russe /Nikki St.George.
As regards the film/TV pieces, those I think are from the media themselves. Oh White Woman etc, although you might be able to get those as I think they were BBC. The Legend of Hell House was AFAIK never released on LP, as well as Work is a Four Letter Word. Invention for Radio No.2 is a radio rip I think, or from a tape copy.
I’m guessing you have already sourced the White Noise LP?
The EAR track is on various compilations: https://www.discogs.com/search/?q=Experimental+Audio+Research+unfinished+dream&type=all