“First Flight” ✨🚀🎛️ - Daphne Oram - Oramics

video upload by Stephano Gavilanes

"First session using the Daphne App, a software version of the Oramics composition technique developed by electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram based on drawings-to-sound originally using 35mm film and the Oramics machine👌🏽

This app not only exports the audio recording, but also generates the midi file of your drawings. I used both files to further compose this track using my own samples, and processing as experimentation. The final outcome feels like a dream experimental collaboration between Daphne Oram and Delia Derbyshire ✨

Hope you enjoy it! 🤙🏼

The App is available as a free download: https://signalfunctionset.com/project...

Music composed and recorded by Stephano Gavilanes.© Copyright 2026. All rights reserved."

Note there was also an Oramics for iOS by Strangeloop Limited back in 2011.

Oramics for iOS Now Available

Oramics - Strangeloop Limited
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"Oramics is a drawn sound technique developed by Daphne Oram in 1957. Oram's composition machine consisted of a large rectangular metal frame, providing a table-like surface traversed by ten synchronised strips of clear, sprocketed 35mm film. The musician drew shapes on the film to create a mask, which modulated the light received by photocells. Although the output from the machine was monophonic, the sounds could be added to multitrack tapes to provide more texture.

The original machine is in storage at the Science Museum in London and is expected to go on display in 2011.

This iPhone app tries to bring to life the incredible sound of the Oramics Machine. Users can draw aspects of a sound in a drawn composition on top of film reels, including the envelope, pitch, reverb, vibrato, as well control the shape of the sound by drawing a waveshape on top of a glass plate."

Oramics - Strangeloop Limited
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The Oramics Machine (iPhone App)

By pkmital

"Testing the Oramics Machine iPhone App which will be released very soon! Also look forward to the Interactive Exhibit as part of the special exhibition on Daphne Oram in the Science Museum of London during the Fall."

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