ArtistInfo

Brian Hodgson

syn, voc, *1938 GB, Liverpool
Musician / Composer of Electronic and Soundtrack
A.k.a. Nikki St. George

Brian Hodgson (born 1938) is a British television composer and sound technician. Born in Liverpool in 1938, 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 claims to fame are the sound of the 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) and the famous voices of the Daleks, which he created by distorting the actors' voices and feeding them through a device called a ring modulator. 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.

Instruments

• Synthesizer
• Vocals
• Piano
• Bass

Genres

• Electronic
• Soundtrack
• Spoken Word

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