ABSTRACT
The chapter focuses on the home-studio of the electronic musician Daphne Oram, founded in the late 1950s, in which the composer attempted to invent new 'drawn-sound' composition techniques. It explores in what ways, the Daphne Oram's home-studio invites people to reconsider the role of domestic settings in processes of invention. The chapter explains Oram's attempt on creating home-studio can be appreciated as an experiment that was at once artistic, technological and domestic. It discusses little about the contemporary relevance of the home-studio. Oramics Machine is nonetheless foregrounded over the inventions of two studios widely credited as key players in the development of electronic music in Britain. As an electronic musician and an employee at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Oram founded the Corporation's Radiophonic Workshop in 1958 with the aim of creating an electronic music studio comparable with others in Paris and Cologne.
