http://britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-12/delia-derbyshire-myths

• Main Authors: Caroline Catz, Baillie Card
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Yale University 2019-05-01
• Series: British Art Studies
• Subjects: Delia Derbyshire; LYC Museum; BBC; Li Yuan-chia
• Online Access: http://britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-12/delia-derbyshire-myths

Caroline Catz is an actor, director, and writer. Her short film “Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes” (2018) was selected for the BFI London Film Festival and the London Short Film Festival, and is now published here permanently in British Art Studies. In the interview that follows, she speaks with BAS editor Baillie Card about Derbyshire’s groundbreaking electronic music compositions, the creative affinities between Derbyshire and Taiwanese-British artist Li Yuan-chia, and the ethics of biography. A discussion of Derbyshire’s time at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and of the years after her departure in 1973, can be found in David Butler’s article in this issue, “Whatever Happened to Delia Derbyshire?”. For an exploration of Li Yuan-chia’s LYC Museum & Art Gallery, read Hammad Nasar’s article “Cumbrian Cosmopolitanisms”, also in this issue.