Hear Seven Hours of Women Making Electronic Music (1938-2014…
[ad_1] Image via Wikimedia Commons A number of years ago, in a post on the pioneering composer of the original Doctor Who theme, we wrote that “the early era of experimental electronic music belonged to Delia Derbyshire.” Derbyshire—who…
Salvador Dalí’s Surreal Jewelry Designs: From Throbbing Hear…
[ad_1] Upon hearing the name of Salvador Dalí, even a total layman in the art world is bound to get visions of melting clocks. Surprisingly, for an artist who showed so much self-marketing savvy, Dalí never brought an actual timepiece in that…
What Victorian People Sounded Like: Hear Recordings of Flore…
[ad_1] More than 120 years after the end of the Victorian era, we might assume that we retain a more or less accurate cultural memory of the Victorians themselves: of their social mores, their aesthetic sensibilities, their ambitions…