Show 383: Dreams for Delia by Radio Valerie
In 1964 British composer Delia Derbyshire collaborated with the actor and director Barry Bermange collaborated on Inventions for Radio, a piece made from Bermange’s recordings of dreams. The dreams they collected were examined for common themes, and the sections relating to each theme were extracted from individual dreams and edited together into montages. The sections were Running, Falling, Land, Water and Colour. Derbyshire added eerie electronic drones.
Our piece, Dreams for Delia, is a re-staging of this piece, a kind of psychic group portrait. Radio Valerie’s listeners were invited to ring us and leave a voicemail message detailing one or more dreams. The themes which emerged from our listeners’ dreams were Friends, Families, Flying, Fear, Forgetting and Animals.
Melbourne composers who either had shows on Valerie or were otherwise connected with the station were then invited to compose music for one of the voice montages. The montages which – and composers who – made it into the episode were, in order:
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Busking somewhere in W.Germany in the 80 s, I had a drnuekn tramp dancing in front of me, plus a nice gathering of people who were interested in my music. I wasn't quite sure what to do about the tramp, as I was not able to speak German A local gent took pity on me, and bodily picked this guy up around the waist from behind, and deposited him in a nearby alley! I was very grateful, doubly so, for I had not personally had to pick a quarrel with the wino.Another good memory of those times was a fellow accordionist from the street audience who craved a copy of my version of the Third Man (transcribed from the playing of Anton Karas, the composer). I only had the one manuscript copy this was all pre- computerised duplication etc I trusted him, and let him take it to a photocopy shop, and he returned it, plus a tip. Very nice people, the West Germans, and very respectful, then, of strassenmusikanten (street-musicians). I expect it's all been done to death now and killed the golden egg, as it has in the UK.Often the happening that is created by someone uninvited joining in grabs the audience's attention. So if it can be dealt with in a humourous fashion, that's always best. I've had little kids dance to my music, and it transforms my act from solitary old fart doing what he does to something spontaneous and interactive .
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