Daphne Blake Oram, also known as Daphne Oram, born on December 31, 1925, in Devizes, Wiltshire, England, was a British composer and electronic musician. She began her career as a Junior Studio Engineer at the BBC in 1942, experimenting with tape recorders and creating sound effects for radio shows. In the 1950s, Oram became a music studio manager at the BBC and campaigned for electronic music facilities. She composed the first wholly electronic score for Amphitryon 38 in 1957 using a sine wave oscillator and tape recorder. Along with Desmond Briscoe, she co-founded the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 1958. Oram left the BBC in 1959, and she established her own studio, Oramics Studios for Electronic Composition, where she developed the Oramics technique for graphical sound. She contributed electronic sounds to films like Dr. No (1962). Her work includes the album Electronic Sound Patterns, released in 1962. Oram passed away on January 5, 2003.
