Published
Mon, Feb 17, 2014, 20:05
- The UK duo have taken the electronic music pioneer's source material and fashioned a new album out of it.
Walls have made an album out of material from the Daphne Oram archives called Sound Houses, due out on May 5th.
Oram is known for starting the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and for her foundational work in early electronic music (including the Oramics synthesizer), which has been well-documented with a few reissues and a spate of press attention (including a feature in these pages) since her death in 2003. Walls, the Kompakt-signed UK duo of Sam Willis and Alessio Natalizia, were given free reign over Oram's archives in order to make Sound Houses. According to FACT, the two used a mixture of new and old technology to update her work, "including a modular synthesizer, an aging 1960s drum machine, various pedals and tapes for processing," and the music is markedly different from the pop-leaning, softer music Walls have become known for. The LP will come on their own Ecstatic label, and you can stream "Extremely Long Corridor" below.
Tracklist
01. Extremely Long Corridor
02. Orchards And Gardens
03. A Very Large Metal Box
04. Rendering The Voice I
05. Strange Lines And Distances
06. Reflexions, Refractions And Multiplications
07. Some Shriller And Some Deeper
08. Rendering The Voice II
09. Reflecting The Voice
10. As It Is In Gems And Prisms
Ecstatic will release Sound Houses on May 5th, 2014.