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== Archive == After Oram's death a large archive relating to her life's work passed to composer [[Hugh Davies (composer)|Hugh Davies]]. When Davies died two years later, this material passed to the [[Sonic Arts Network]], and in 2008 the archive went to [[Goldsmiths, University of London]]. It is now held within Goldsmiths Special Collections & Archives, where it is open for public access and ongoing research.<ref>{{cite web |title=Special Collections & Archives |url=http://www.gold.ac.uk/library/collections/special-collections/ |website=Gold.ac.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://daphneoram.org/trust/|title=The Trust|website=Daphneoram.org|date=10 July 2014}}</ref> The launch of the archive was celebrated with a symposium and a series of concerts at the [[Southbank Centre]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Electronic Music Studios - Archived News & Events: 2008 - 2009|url=http://www.gold.ac.uk/ems/events-archive08-09/|publisher=Goldsmiths, University of London|access-date=27 March 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150329135211/http://www.gold.ac.uk/ems/events-archive08-09/|archive-date=29 March 2015}}</ref> This included a concert of newly reworked versions of material from the collection by [[People Like Us (musician)|People Like Us]].<ref> {{cite web | title = People Like Us incoming MP3s | publisher = [[WFMU]] | date = 5 August 2008 | url = http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/08/3-new-releases.html | access-date = 4 May 2009 }}</ref> In 2007, a two-CD compilation of her music, entitled ''Oramics'', was released.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stalk.net/paradigm/pd21.html|title=Daphne Oram - Oramics (PD 21)|website=Stalk.net}}</ref> In 2008, a [[BBC Radio 3]] documentary on Oram's life was broadcast as part of the ''Sunday Feature'' strand, entitled ''Wee Have Also Sound-Houses''.{{refn|group=notes|''Wee Have Also Sound-Houses'' is a quotation from [[Francis Bacon]]'s 1626 utopian novel ''[[New Atlantis]]''. Oram often referred to this quotation,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Boon |first1=Tim |title=We have also sound-houses |url=https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/we-have-also-sound-houses/ |website=Science Museum |date=25 March 2011 |access-date=29 March 2020}}</ref> and gave an extended quotation from this passage at the end of her book ''An Individual Note'',<ref>{{cite book|last1=Oram|first1=Daphne|title=An Individual Note - of music, sound and electronics|url=https://archive.org/details/individualnotemu00oram|url-access=limited|date=1972|isbn=0852491093|publisher=Galliard|location=London|page=[https://archive.org/details/individualnotemu00oram/page/n70 128]}}</ref> beginning: {{blockquote|{{not a typo|Wee have also Sound-Houses, wher wee practise and demonstrate all Sounds, and their Generation. Wee have Harmonies which you have not, of Quarter-Sounds and lesser Slides of Sounds.<!-- Archaic spelling and capitalisation, as quoted by Oram -->}} [...] |author=[[Francis Bacon]] |title=''[[New Atlantis]]'' (1626)}}}}<ref> {{cite web | title = BBC Radio 3 Programmes - Sunday Feature: Wee Have Also Sound-Houses | publisher = BBC | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ct1y1 | access-date = 6 January 2009 }}</ref>
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