An Individual note of music, sound, and electronics

London: Galliard, 1972. First edition. Softcover with one fold-out plate, (145)pp., 8.5 x 5.5 inches.  Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. The only published book by this electronic music pioneer, musique concrète practitioner & inventor. Extremely uncommon. Daphne Oram (1925–2003) was one of the central figures in the development of British experimental electronic music. Having declined a place at the Royal College of Music to become a music balancer at the BBC, she went on to become the co-founder and first director of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Oram left the BBC in 1959 to pursue commercial work in television, advertising, film and theatre (her uncredited scoring work on the 1961 film ‘The Innocents’ helped to pioneer the electronic music soundtrack), to make her own music for recording and performance, and to continue her personal research into sound technology. Her home, a former oasthouse in Kent, became an unorthodox studio and workshop in which, mostly on a s