Mini Oramics
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| Part of the original design for Mini Oramics, courtesy of the Daphne Oram Archive
My name is Tom Richards and I am researching Daphne Oram using the Daphne Oram Archive at Goldsmiths, and the Oramics Machine at the Science Museum.
As part of my practice based PhD I am attempting a recreation / reimagining of Mini Oramics, which is essentially a graphical score reading machine - like a player piano for electronic music. This was Oram's second attempt at such a device: after building her original Oramics Machine, Oram turned her thoughts to the production of a smaller, simpler version
of her machine, to be marketed to private and educational studios. Oram’s Mini Oramics is still an
under-researched area of her practice, and unlike her original machine we do
not have a physical artefact to study. However, the archival designs for
Mini-Oramics are far more complete than those of her original machine, and so
in many respects her intentions and ideas are easier to interpret than with the
original.
This blog is to enable me to share some of the work I have been doing with my hardware version of Mini Oramics.
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