17 Jul 2013

Outtake - Malcolm Clarke and 'The Sea Devils'

From These Hopeful Machines, 8:00 pm on 17 July 2013
EMS Synthi 100

EMS Synthi 100 Photo: CC BY Cantos museum

Mark Ayres talks about Malcolm Clarke's 'in-your-face' electronic score for the Dr Who series The Sea Devils from 1972, realised on the Delaware, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop's huge Synthi 100 synthesizer.

Related links:

The Sea Devils Wikipedia entry

More on the Synthi 100 may be found by scrolling down to ‘Belgrade Calling’ here

Frances Morgan’s PhD thesis on the Synthi 100 can be found here