Okay, its been terrifying children for decades, but the music alone is haunting.
This remarkable music is made by tape looping, white noise, and wave form oscillators titervated by Delia Derbyshire in the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop. Not one note comes from a musical instrument. That someone saw fit to create for a children's programme in 1963 is brilliant. The current version is with a full orchestra but goes to show you can't really improve it.
Delia Derbyshire was later invited by Paul McCartney to collaborate with the Beatles. The BBC nixed it. Gah!
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Absolutely spot on. This is probably the most innovative theme tune of all time bearing in mind that someone spent time cutting up magnetic tape with the kitchen scissors and the re-arranging it with sellotape. Who does that these days? There's probably a box of tricks that will do it for you.
ReplyDeleteThe current theme is so conventional by comparison you'd think it was made before 1963 not after. Delia Derbyshire - genius.