Elizabeth Parker demonstrates a technique she used to create the theme music for David Attenborough’s The Living Planet in May of 1984. As a film and TV composer for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, she utilized synths like the PPG Wave 2.2 and Roland System 100. In an April 1984 article from Electronic Soundmaker & Computer Music, she states: “I’ve been working on David Attenborough’s documentary, The Living Planet, and if you listen to the program it’s done almost entirely on a PPG Wave 2.2 with a Waveterm computer, a Roland 100 modular system and a rackmounted vocoder” During her time at the Radiophonic Workshop (from 1978 until the workshop’s closure in 1998) she worked on numerous productions including The Living Planet (above), Doctor Who, radio adaptations of Iris Murdoch’s The Bella and The Sea, the Sea and Harold Pinter’s Moonlight and more. Refs: BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Wiki, Equipboard, Electronic Soundmaker & Computer Music.
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