{"id":486,"date":"2013-10-15T16:19:37","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T16:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=486"},"modified":"2013-10-15T16:19:37","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T16:19:37","slug":"her-in-hero-daphne-oram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=486","title":{"rendered":"HER in Hero: Daphne Oram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nominated by: Mick Grierson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/mick3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-487\" title=\"mick3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/mick3-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/mick3-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/mick3-682x1024.jpg 682w, http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/mick3.jpg 1918w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My nomination is (perhaps unsurprisingly) Daphne Oram.<\/p>\n<p>She founded the BBC radiophonic workshop, invented the first British Electronic music device that featured a computational method for describing pitch (The Oramics Machine), and composed some of the most original and inventive music of the 1950s and 1960&#8217;s. She also may have been the first woman to develop her own computer program to make music.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NNaqvAH7R34?feature=player_detailpage\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nominated by: Mick Grierson My nomination is (perhaps unsurprisingly) Daphne Oram. She founded the BBC radiophonic workshop, invented the first British Electronic music device that featured a computational method for describing pitch (The Oramics Machine), and composed some of the most original and inventive music of the 1950s and 1960&#8217;s. She also may have been &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=486\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HER in Hero: Daphne Oram<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[75],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}