I came into Daphne Oram’s orbit while researching for a project revolving around architecture and sound several years ago. She was a sonic visionary and inventor of the Oramics Machine. The machine created music and sound through graphical interpretation. In essence, it’s a machine that plays one’s imagination. See below for some images.
This was all back in the ‘50s - ‘60s and cements Oram as the grandmother of electronic music. It’s all incredibly fascinating in relation to the exponential boom in electronic music today with DAWs such as Ableton Live and software like Max/MSP/Jitter.
Oram’s book, “An Individual Note”, can be viewed online here and a more in-depth article here.
Oramic Machine
Oram at work
Interesting addition to have a yin and yang symbol on the back cover