She Drew Sound Onto Film: Oramics Inventor Daphne Oram

Someone figured out how to draw sound long before graphic design software even existed. Little Pi introduces British electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram, who co-founded the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop, then resigned less than a year later to build Oramics: a machine that turned hand-drawn waveforms on strips of film into sound, an idea that conceptually foreshadowed the automation curves in today's music production software. References: Daphne Oram - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Oram Daphne Oram official website: https://www.daphneoram.org/ BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Radiophonic_Workshop Science Museum: Oramics Machine: https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/oramics-machine