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Brian Hodgson
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Brian Hodgson is a British television composer and sound technician. Born in Liverpool, Hodgson joined the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 1962 where he became the original sound effects creator for the science fiction programme Doctor Who. His main claim to fame is for producing the sound of TARDIS, which he created by running the back door key to his mother's house along a bass string of a gutted piano, then electronically treating the recording. He continued to produce effects for the programme until 1972 when he left the Workshop, leaving Dick Mills to produce effects for the remainder of the show's run. Earlier, in 1966, with fellow workshop musician Delia Derbyshire and EMS founder Peter Zinovieff, he helped set up Unit Delta Plus, an organisation which they intended to use to create and promote electronic music. Based in a studio in Zinovieff's townhouse in Putney, they exhibited their music at a few experimental and electronic music festivals, including The Million Volt Light and Sound Rave at which The Beatles' "Carnival of Light" had its only public playing. After a troubled performance at the Royal College of Art, in 1967, the unit disbanded. Also in the late sixties, Hodgson and Derbyshire, along with fellow musician David Vorhaus, set up the Kaleidophon studio in Camden Town. The studio produced electronic music for various London theatres and, in 1968, the three used it to produce their first album as the band White Noise. Although later albums were essentially so
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Kpm 1000 Series: Electrosonic
Doctor Who - The 50th Anniversary Collection (Original Television Soundtrack)
Happy Machine: Standard Music Library 1970-2010
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Doctor Who - The Krotons (Original Television Soundtrack)
Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop: Volume 1: the Early Years 1963-1969
BBC Radiophonic Workshop - 21
Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Volume 1: The Early Years 1963-1969
Doctor Who: The 50th Anniversary Collection
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Encore Electronic - We See The Future
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The BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective [Disc 1]
BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective
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The Tomorrow People