Sisters with Transistors (PG)

Film Club presents a special screening of Sisters with Transistors, accompanied with a rare public appearance of legendary Mini-Oramics Machine.

Workshop and talk:
The original Oramics machine was created by composer Daphne Oram in the mid 1960s, a synthesiser designed to read graphic scores.  Oram also began work on a smaller offshoot she later dubbed ‘Mini Oramics’, a more portable device that might have had genuine commercial potential as a product for electronic musicians.  Sadly, she had to abandon the project, but as part of his PhD at Goldsmiths University Tom Richards decided to explore the potential for resurrecting Mini Oramics.  Tom joins Horse + Bamboo for a talk, demo and Q&A as part of this October film club special.

Followed by Sisters with Transistors (PG).  The remarkable untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to music today.

'a long overdue tribute to the women that broke barriers in music, technology, and society as a whole.  This is not a retrospective, it’s a new beginning.', Owen Richards, The Art Des.

Director: Lisa Rovner.
Year: 2021.