Cherry Seraph, Artists’ Child and Helen Papaioannou have all taken inspiration from the ideas and legacy of electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram, celebrating her 100th anniversary in their individual ways using laptop, modular synth and cassette tapes.

All three will be performing their pieces in the Cubby Broccoli Cinema in the National Science and Media Museum, as part of the Make Some Noise! day of sonic activities during British Science Week.

Helen Papaioannou:

Inspired by the format of Daphne Oram’s Electronic Sound Patterns (1962), Helen Papaioannou performs a piece with four tape cassette players, based on Oram’s four categories of sound experiments on the album. While Oram’s album was an example of her artistry with multiple reel-to-reel tape recorders, Helen explores the brief with another form of tape technology in the form of cassette loops and live layering of cassette players. Helen’s performance inhabits an altogether different soundworld, drawing from sounds and patterns influenced by electronic dance music, but with an approach that chimes with Oram’s somewhat stark approach to Electronic Sound Patterns.