Inventions For Radio || New Radiophonic Workshop part 3: Amor Dei: A Vision of God (Barry Bermange, 1964).
In het laatste uur van deze special rondom de new radiophonic workshop kunt u luisteren naar het tweede stuk van de originele Inventions for Radio series uit 1964.
Invention for Radio No. 2: Amor Dei: A Vision of God (1964)
- 1. Groping towards God
- 2. Rorate Coeli
- 3. "I’d like to believe in God, but…"
- 4. "There is a God!"
"A second invention for radio by Barry Bermange, in collaboration with the B.B.C.’s Radiophonic Workshop, with talk recorded in co-operation with the Old People’s Welfare Council, Hornsey.
Producer: David Thomson.
An attempt to describe God in human terms, and to create, in the manner of a religious painting, an overall impression of man’s love for Him. The voices were recorded from life and arranged by the author in a setting of radiophonic sound.
Plainsong Antiphon John Hahessy (boy soprano) – unacc. 16-Nov-1964."
— Nigel Deacon
"When I was doing the Inventions with Barry Bermange he wanted sounds which would sound like a Gothic altarpiece. ‘Oh,’ I said, ‘yes. What a good idea. But what do you really mean? What sort of sounds?’ He said ‘Well, give me a pencil and paper’. I did, and with great care and elaboration he drew me a beautiful Gothic altarpiece and said ‘That’s the sort of sound I want’."
"Barry Bermange said that he himself thought of ‘Amor Dei’ as ‘rather in the manner of a Renaissance painting with the believers in God in the foreground or centre and half-hidden disbelievers looking out from shadowy places round the edge of the painting.’
He has made this programme in four sections. In the first you will hear several thoughtful voices groping towards God, feeling their way into something undefined. In the second, some more assured voices cite concrete images; a defined notion of God begins to emerge. The third is a contest between those who love God and those who cannot believe in Him. The assured and confident voices in the last section are inspired by absolute faith."
— David Thomson in the Radio Times, 1965.
In het laatste kwartier kunt u luisteren naar de suggestie van Matthew Herbert, de creatieve directeur van de New Radiophonic Workshop. "An Electric Storm" van de band White Noise, waarvan Delia Derbyshire een essentieel onderdeel uitmaakte.
Het eerste deel van deze originele Inventions for Radio series kunt u hier beluisteren.
