David Chesworth was one of the two inaugural Artists-in-residence at MESS in 2017. David has had a long and rich association with analogue and digital synthesizers. Early in his career, he recorded the iconic '50 Synthesizer Greats', on an Akai 4000…
Milton Babbitt, American composer and Professor of Music at Princeton University, was invited as the international expert to the seminar 'The State of the Art of Electronic Music in Australia' at the University of Melbourne in 1971. This photograph,…
Jean-Charles Francois, supervisor of tape-sampling programmes, and Ian Bonighton, composer and supervisor of equipment at the electronic music seminar, for the seminar 'The State of the Art of Electronic Music in Australia', Grainger Museum and…
An important part of the programme for the State of the Art of Electronic Music in Australia seminar was the international tape sampling, which occurred in the Grainger Museum each day of the conference, from 10am to…
Felix Werder, Ian Bonighton, Keith Humble and Ron Nagorcka with the newly released LP Reverberations, c. 1973. The LP included 'Cathedral Music 1' by Ian Bonighton, 'Toccata' by Felix Werder, 'Theme and Variations' by Ron Nagorcka, and 'Paraphrase…
This is a diagram drawn by composer Ian Bonighton of a ring modulator, used in electronic music. Bonighton's 1969 Master of Music included a section on Electronic Equipment used in composition, and he included circuit diagrams of the ring modulator…
The cover of the LP "Karlheinz Stockhausen: Telemusik/Mixtur", published in 1969 by Deutsche Grammophon, Germany.
German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007), described as the ‘most controversial musical innovator of our time’, has influenced…
35mm slide, Grainger Museum Archive, 99.600.1 In 1976, ABC Television made a documentary about Grainger’s Free Music experiments, interviewing Burnett Cross, who was visiting the Grainger Museum in order to restore Percy Grainger’s Kangaroo Pouch…
German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen visited Australia for ten days in April 1970. He gave concert-lectures on electronic music around the country, including three programs in Wilson Hall, at the University of Melbourne. Delivered through a battery…