Friday, April 27, 2007
all doctor who intro
YouTube via extrememJb. Anyone want to guess the timeline and/or synths used? I sure as hell don't. : )
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I don't know what you mean by timeline; the clips are in order chronologically (David Tennant being the current Doctor).
ReplyDeleteAs far as music, I prefer the original.
The year the version first appeared and the synth used. Would be interesting to know what they used from what was available at the time.
ReplyDeleteI know the original was done by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and I think it was a "tape studio" piece using lab oscillators and so forth, given that there were only a handful of synths in existence back then. I seem to remember that they re-did it around 1970 with synts that were available then, most likely EMS stuff.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of which, the Dr Who intro is one of those EM pieces that I've always thought of as quntessiantally British. So I was rather startled when I saw a recent video clip of the production of the theme for the new version of the show, and they were using a CS80 and an Odyssey...
yeah If you watch the documentary 'alchemists of sound' it has a full decostruction of the original peice somewhere in it - it fully explains the processes in the whole program all tape, microphone and simple oscillators really simple yet effective.
ReplyDeleteits split on youtube here is one part
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMVhNztuiEI
this is a later version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Pl83oqGhg
its at 6:30 mins in this video
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMVhNztuiEI
the one at 4:18, that is by far the best one!
ReplyDeletesmokes em all.
Dude went to all that trouble to make the video, and he missed Peter Davison (the 5th doctor).
ReplyDeleteThe original theme from the early 60s was DeiaDerbyshires tape work: test oscillator tones put on tapes, the tapes spliced one note at a time, the phrases copied to other tapes and these tapes spliced. Over time different versions were made, often using components of the previous versions. In the early 70s, it was remade with the Delaware (EMS Synthi 100), then later with a CS-80 and Arp, then later with prophet 5, each time losing a bit of character. The current series adds an orchestra, but the original melody tape from the 60s!
ReplyDeletehttp://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Mark_Ayres/DWTheme.htm
ReplyDeleteDon't touch me, just take pictures or throw money. ^_^
Never did understand the appeal of some goofy looking guy's head floating in outer space... yes, the intro was enough to keep me away from the show. Well, I did watch one episode, actually.
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