...if it induces a sense of extreme morbidity combined with a frisson of retrofuturist apocalypticism:
BBC release script to be used in the event of a nuclear attack.
Shudder.
Shudder.
Grrrgle.
I'm fascinated by the 'you cannot see it, you cannot feel it, but it is there' line. It contextualises the sixties-through-eighties preoccupation with the 'scientific' supernatural (Doctor Who, Hammer House of Horrors, The Stone Tape). I guess this line also sums up the remit of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop: 'it has no sensory presence, but how might one go about symbolising the absence of sensory presence in sound? If the nuclear age presents a kind of unrepresentable Real for language, how might sound narrate that crisis in representation?'
Well, Delia Derbyshire was either thinking that, or 'that would sound cool.'
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