Daphne Oram, one of the leading lights of the stellar BBC Radiophonic Workshop designed and built the Oramic synthesizer beginning in 1957. Based on visual symbols drawn on paper and fed into a machine looking like something out of Wallace and Gromit, it has sat dormant since the mid-70’s until now.
 

This short film features Dr Mick Grierson, Director of The Daphne Oram Collection, acquiring the synthesizer from a collector in 2009.
The machine is now in the hands of The Science Museum in London and is currently being restored. It hasn’t been performed with since the 1970s.
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With thanks to Shannon Fields !