White Noise
Delia Derbyshire.
This band were not a Coventry band as such but a leading light in the band was Coventry born Delia Derbyshire (famed for the Doctor Who theme).
'An Electric Storm In June 1969 White Noise released the groundbreaking album An Electric Storm on Island Records. The album was created using a variety of tape manipulation techniques, and used the first British synthesizer, the EMS Synthi VCS3. Among many oddities, the first track on the album, Love Without Sound, employed speeded-up tape edits of Vorhaus playing the double bass to create violin and cellosounds.
"I use voices a lot too, but not as conventional vocals. I always use a lot of voices, and if somebody having an orgasm in the background is used as part of one of the waveforms, it makes the sound more interesting, without the listener actually knowing what they're hearing."
- Interview with David Vorhaus'
About Delia Derbyshire - from wiki - follow link here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delia_Derbyshire
"Derbyshire was born in Coventry, daughter of Emma (née Dawson) and Edward Derbyshire of Cedars Avenue, Coundon, Coventry, a sheet-metal worker. She had one sibling, a sister, who died young. Her father died in 1965 and her mother in 1994. During the Second World War, immediately after the Coventry Blitz in 1940......" (link above.)
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