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From beyond the grave
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Martin Guy
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Mar 27, 2009 05:29 PST
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Delia very occasionally pays me a visit in dreams, and tonight she was
very insistent, coming back after I'd woken up and gone back to sleep
again.
She gave me three pretty black and white photographs of her in her
early twenties, a little younger and slightly fuller in the face than
the first central one on my site, and a cassette tape of some music of
hers that is not known about, and kept saying "Gerard Roux" very
distinctly, as if that were who I should contact about it.
It's a name I've never heard of. Google shows a painter born in 1900
http://www.cinoa.org/art-and-antiques/detail/39411
(as well as a french lawyer, an American programmer, the IT Manager
for Woolworths of South Africa and someone in Paraguay - you know how
Google name searches go...)
On waking I thought "Gerard" might be a reference to Roberto Gerhard
"Anger of Achilles", a prize-winning piece that is, AFAIK, lost (and
both Roberto and Roux are Italian) but she was very distinct and
pointed the name out several times in the cassette's insert. She also
seemed to think I'd find a copy at Ljubljana train station. Go figure.
So does any of this tie in with what other people know of her (or of
her taste in art)?
More prosaically, does anyone have any lead on the lost works that she
seems anxious that people should hear? To my knowledge:
"Anger of Achilles" with Roberto Gerhard (1964)
http://delia-derbyshire.dyndns.org/#AngerOfAchilles
The third and fourth inventions for radio (1965)
"The After-Life" and "The Evenings of Certain Lives"
http://delia-derbyshire.dyndns.org/#TheAfterLife
Music for "Cyprian Queen", "Wrapping Event", "Oh Fat White Woman"
http://delia-derbyshire.dyndns.org/#CyprianQueen
http://delia-derbyshire.dyndns.org/#WrappingEvent
http://delia-derbyshire.dyndns.org/#OhFatWhiteWoman
as well, of course, as the music for the EMI-sponsored student fashion show.
One of the slides from the presentation of the Manchester collection
of her tapes
http://www.novars.manchester.ac.uk/research/delia/english_html/img11.html
also mentions "Medea" and "Raven and Dove" (is that a biblical
refernce to the Noah story?).
Nothing seems to be forthcoming from that archive though, and the
years continue to pass...
I wish they'd just publish it. You know, make it public. No strings
attached, no cryptic flash media players. Publish. MP3s will be fine,
Oggs even better. High quality will be good too and stop just sitting
on it.
She seems to be saying I haven't understood a thing, so I'm not quite
sure what to do... well, other than go to Ljubljana by train of
course... further clues are welcome.
M
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