All Hail The Queen
Delia Derbyshire
We believe in limited resources, don't we?
Absolutely. I'm dead keen on limiting resources.
It stretches the mind more.
To be given total freedom… I mean, we come back to Maya Angelou- "I
Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." You need to have discipline in order to
be truly creative. If you're just given total freedom to do anything
you like... You've got to impose some discipline on either the form
you're going to use or the sounds you're going to use.
Aphex Twin was saying that he's sold a lot of his equipment, because
he'd sit there and look at it, and couldn't make up his mind.
If you cannot discipline yourself...You'd end up... "Oh I like this, I like that, I want it all at once."
There's a lot of mood and organic feeling encapsulated in your
sounds, which some people wouldn't immediately associate with
electronic music.
The boss man [at the BBC] had said that "it's impossible for electronic music to be beautiful... until Delia came along."