Delia Derbyshire

Delia Derbyshire was an innovantive and inspirational electronic composer throughout the 60s and 70s.  A large part of her career was based in BBC,where she most famously composed the original Doctor Who theme.  Derbyshire used both real and "artificial" sounds in her works, creating compositions in the style of musique concrete, a term originally coined by French composer Pierre Schaeffer in the 1940s.  During her time at BBC's Radiophonic workshop, Derbyshire had minimal supplies to work with, and so used any object she thought might create n interesting musical texture.  Derbyshire used a broken piano to create the sound of the TARDIS dematerializing in Doctor Who.  Derbyshire's approach to sound and composition leave much to be learned, and are inspirational for any composer looking to create unique sounds and think outside of the box.