Desmond Briscoe

As the co-founder and original manager of the famed BBC Radiophonic Workshop, composer and sound engineer Desmond Briscoe embraced the sensibilities of musique concrète to introduce avant-garde principles into mainstream radio drama, proving a massive influence on successive generations of electronic music pioneers. Born in Birkenhead, England on June 21, 1925, Briscoe was raised in Manchester; the son of a telephone engineer, he naturally gravitated toward technology, but also loved music and as a teen, he played the drums and led his own big band. Briscoe first joined the BB...