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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Working with her friend [[Angela Rodaway]], Delia<br /> &lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;<br /> composed a soundscape to accompany Angela&#039;s radio play [[Death of the Jelly Baby]], using an EEG print-out of Angela&#039;s heartbeat and brainwaves.&lt;ref name=Grauniad&gt;[http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/nov/15/angela-rodaway-obituary The Guardian&#039;s obituary for Angela Rodaway], 15th November 2012.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> &lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;<br /> <br /> What Delia calls [[Angela&#039;s Ballet]] and the BBC calls [[Gravel]] appear to be the same piece of music:<br /> * both are mentioned in connection with EEGs<br /> * Delia&#039;s notes &quot;R.W - 26.7.63&quot;[3] list Gravel as one of her immediate tasks and both were performed/broadcast in 1964.&lt;ref name=JP&gt;James Percival writes in an email to mailing list delia@topica.com that [[Gravel]] &quot;was apparently played at the 1964 Congress for Experimental Music in Berlin&quot;, and there is a tape [[TRW#6193|TRW 6193]] labelled &#039;&#039;The Death of a Jelly Baby (for Germany)&#039;&#039;, also dated 1964.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> The [[Radiophonic Database]] says that [[Death of the Jelly Baby]] was broadcast&lt;ref name=TRW4090/&gt; but [[Gravel]] never was.&lt;ref name=TRW6064&gt;The [[Tape Library List]]&#039;s entry for [[TRW#6064|TRW 6064]]: &quot;Gravel&quot;.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> =Title=<br /> The piece gets called variously:<br /> * &#039;&#039;Death of a Jelly Baby&#039;&#039;<br /> ** International Electronic Music Catalog&lt;ref name=IEMC&gt;[https://archive.org/stream/InternationalElectronicMusicCatalog/EMR2_3#page/n113/mode/1up International Electronic Music Catalog, p.164]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> * &#039;&#039;Death of the Jelly Baby&#039;&#039;<br /> ** The Guardian&#039;s obituary for Angela Rodaway&lt;ref name=Grauniad/&gt;<br /> * &#039;&#039;The Death of a Jelly Baby&#039;&#039;<br /> ** The [[Tape Library List]]&#039;s entries for [[TRW 4090]] and [[TRW 6193]].<br /> * &#039;&#039;The Death of the Jelly Baby&#039;&#039;<br /> ** &#039;&#039;Radio Times&#039;&#039;, 11 June 1964.<br /> <br /> =Availability=<br /> * Broadcast on the Third Programme on 29th May 1964 at 8.45pm&lt;ref name=TRW4090/&gt; and repeated on the 14th June 1964.&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.solearabiantree.net/namingofparts/pdf/radio%20times/americaprize17june1964.pdf The &#039;&#039;Radio Times&#039;&#039; dated 11th June 1964] covering June 13-19 has &#039;&#039;The Death of the Jelly Baby&#039;&#039; (&lt;I&gt;Sunday, Third&lt;/I&gt;) Another hearing of the work for radio by Angela Rodaway.&quot;&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> * [[Gravel]] was performed at the 1964 Congress for Experimental Music in Berlin.&lt;ref name=JP/&gt;<br /> * In the BBC Sound Archive on tape [[TRW#4090|TRW 4090]].&lt;ref name=TRW4090&gt;The [[Tape Library List]]&#039;s entry for [[TRW 4090]]: &quot;&#039;&#039;The Death of a Jelly Baby:&#039;&#039; 2 reels - final masters&quot;.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> * A copy of it for Germany, [[TRW#6193|TRW 6193]], is missing.&lt;ref name=TRW6193&gt;The [[Tape Library List]]&#039;s entry for [[TRW#6193|TRW 6193]]: &quot;&#039;&#039;The Death of a Jelly Baby (for Germany)&#039;&#039;, copy of [[TRW#4090|TRW 4090]]&quot; (missing).&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> =References=<br /> &lt;references/&gt;<br /> <br /> [[Category:Programme]]</div>

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