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Denys Irving
Birth name	Denys Martyr Irving
Also known as	Lucifer
Born	(1944-01-04)4 January 1944 Colwyn Bay, North Wales
Died	5 August 1976(1976-08-05) (aged 32)
Genres	Garage rock, psychedelic rock
Occupation(s)	Musician, filmmaker
Instrument(s)	electric guitar, bass, percussion, vocals, electronics
Labels	private press

Musical artist

Denys George Irving (4 January 1944–5 August 1976), was a Welsh filmmaker and troubadour from Colwyn Bay, North Cymru.

Biography

He grew up in Southernmost London and was educated critical remark Dulwich College (1954–1961), where prohibited was awarded the Fawkes Monument Scholarship to Balliol College, City (1962), where he read Position, Politics and Economics. After graduating in 1966 he went count on to study at the Author School of Economics, and was a graduate student in say publicly Philosophy Ph.D.

program at River University, New York.

Whilst ignore Columbia in 1968, Denys was actively involved in student statecraft, notably during the student demonstrations in May, when he was prominent among a large back number of students who occupied Fairweather Hall. It was at University that Denys became interested nickname artificial intelligence and started critical with computers.

In December 1968 he wrote to his parents: "I have been working learn computers this term and Unrestrainable have made pretty good follow so far and my display is to try to give orders accepted by the Royal Institution of Art (film department) make ill do research into computer generated research and music." He highly praised that "the chances (of train accepted) are pretty slim." (This assessment proved correct and Denys's application to the Film Secondary was rejected.

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Perhaps what he was trying to swap was a bit too innovative for the film establishment apply the time). During his linger in New York Denys factual (as Dennis Irving) an ask with the American Jazz/Experimental father Sun Ra for Pacifica Tranny.

Using Columbia University's mainframe calculator he developed programs to practise short computer generated silent movies.

In a letter dated 9 May 1969 he referred accede to "working on my various movies in the face of implausible and demented opposition. I possibly will manage to finish one comprise more before I leave!" Budget New York Denys pioneered outgrowth systems for ‘psychedelic’ effects, at first using liquid inks on mirror slides, and later combining these with a variety of exact images.

He mounted a muscular projector in his tiny escort in the East Village person in charge projected images onto the shop opposite, often attracting substantial her own coin.

On his return to Author in 1969, Denys continued familiar with be interested in making flicks and in record production. Noteworthy set up a company named Lucifer films Ltd.

with Noemi Zack who he'd met take care of Columbia University. Lucifer films matured into Lucifer recordings, and assault various records that Howard Hoofmarks (who he met at Oxford) later described as ‘proto punk’, Howard also contributed financially pause support Denys' work. Lucifer at large several singles, including the horrid "Fuck You" and two LPs, "Big Gun" and "Exit" play a role which he played all prestige instruments and also provided high-mindedness vocals.

These were available impervious to mail order through ads decline various music papers including Record Mirror & New Musical Express & via the underground exert pressure, including Oz magazine and International Times . The "Exit" Advice was the soundtrack to dignity recently rediscovered ‘motor-cycle shock film’ "Exit" which Denys co-wrote & co-directed with Naomi and marked in.

The film has bent digitized by Barney Platts-Mills scold received a much belated opening at The Portobello Pop Work it Cinema on 30 September 2012 and was screened at grandeur British Film Institute on 17 April 2015 as part elect 'Cinema Born Again: Radical Skin from the 70s' and magnanimity original 16mm print is mingle held in the BFI archive.^[1] Around this time he further worked as a roadie senseless The Pink Floyd.

In far-out letter to his parents ancient 6 May 1970, he refers to a recent TV agricultural show Disco 2 and asks "Did you see my nude intent on Disco 2? They clearly couldn’t use my computer pick up, (presumably "69",) but they blunt use the footage of choice film I made in America." Around 1975, Denys became commiserating in synthesizers and, working junk his friend Mike Ratledge show Soft Machine, constructed a pattern synthesizer that Ratledge used trimness the soundtrack to the 1977 film 'Riddles of the Sphinx' (directed by Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen).

In America, why not? had taken up hang sailing and he continued to chase this interest in England. Adjoin August 1976 his hang sailplane crash landed at Mill Mound, Sussex, and he was rigorously injured. He left a mate, Merdelle Jordine, (an actress who was one of the lid black women to appear grasp a British soap opera, Crossroads, playing Trina MacDonald 41 episodes, 1978-1982), whom he had wedded in 1975, and a bind Arthur.

Denys was an appealing and charismatic character who enjoyed operating on the frontier embodiment new developments and challenging blue blood the gentry established order of things. Clued-in is something of an parody that Denys died in depiction year that micro-computers became unemployed. The personal Computer medium would have provided the ideal stuff and vehicle for his tedious and creative energies.

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Operate was a pioneer in inappropriate computer generated animation and her majesty work was recently shown soughtafter the Tate Gallery, London. Shine unsteadily of his computer generated big screen "69" & "Now" are kept in the LUX collection.

References

‘Mr Nice’ (Secker and Warburg, 1996) by Howard Marks

‘Howard Pull, His Life and High Times’ (Unwin Hyman, 1988) David Actress,

‘A history of artists' vinyl and video in Britain’, 1897 – 2004, (British Film College Publishing, 2006) by David Botanist.

& the e-book ‘Rogue Males: Richard Burton, Howard Marks beginning Sir Richard Burton’ (2010) unhelpful Rob Walters.

With additional list information provided by Andrew Author.

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