ABSTRACT
The state of electronic music in the UK during the 1950s and 1960s was primarily focused on creating music and effects for broadcast media and film. In London, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) established the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 1958 for the production of sound effects and electronic music for radio and television productions. The wide exposure of its music provided impetus for the assimilation of electronic music in popular music and media. The excitement over Oram’s electronic music generated much demand for her services even before the Workshop officially began operation. In 1959, Oram established her own independent production company to produce a broader, more diverse range of sonic experiments for music, television, and motion pictures. Until the availability of commercially available music synthesizers in the late 1960s, the engineering of musical equipment at the Workshop was largely a do-it-yourself affair by some of the cleverest engineers in the business.
