Fantôme Phonographique

Fantôme Phonographique present a reissue of Daphne Oram and Vera Gray‘s “Listen Move & Dance“, originally released in 1962.

The British composer, musician, and audio engineer Daphne Oram was a pioneering figure in the use of electronic music. Coming to prominence through her work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, which she co-founded, Oram was one of the first British composers to feature electronic instruments in her work and has been rightly hailed as helping musique concrete to become accepted in Britain.

The “Listen Move & Dance“ series of BBC programs were devised as a radical new technique to help British schoolchildren learn how to dance; on the LP releases, Vera Gray arranged short adaptations of classical pieces by Bartok, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, and others, designed for “stamping, punching, kicking and jumping” movements, as well as “running lightly”, “dancing on toes” and “shaking all about”, which contrasted sharply with Oram‘s electronic abstractions, which seemed to have been beamed in from outer space.

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