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‘We’re projecting into the future’: sounds of BBC Radiophonic Workshop made available for public use
Software goes on sale that replicates the distinctive analogue sounds of celebrated unit where Doctor Who theme was created
With its banks of bafflingly complex equipment, and staff members that were among the most progressive musical minds in the UK, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop was a laboratory of 20th-century sound that produced endless futuristic effects for use in TV and radio – most memorably, the ghostly wail of the Doctor Who theme. Photograph: BBC StudiosThe Workshop may be best known for the Doctor Who theme, but it also created music and sound effects for other sci-fi shows such as Quatermass and the Pit, Blake’s 7 and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The naive yet eerie music the Workshop made for children’s programming seemed to seep into the subconscious of a generation of leftfield musicians, from Boards of Canada to Broadcast and the artists on the Ghost Box label.
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