33 10 337 https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/grainger/files/original/71b91131551fd290421aa5f426887668.jpg 224324f694bb6a1d784dbe00417caef1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource View of Percy Grainger in orchard Subject The topic of the resource Photograph Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph. 50.9 x 40.5 cm Portrait of Percy Grainger standing in an orchard in his US army uniform. He is standing in front of a tree and gazing off into the distance. His right hand is clutching the strap whilst the left hand is holding on to a soprano saxophone. The photograph appears to have been printed onto a board. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unknown. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Unknown. Type The nature or genre of the resource Photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 17.0084 https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/grainger/files/original/85827df9ab6c38d57468e763906aff80.jpg 3ac9fdc04bbba09d1b55586720cffab0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Percy Grainger Subject The topic of the resource Photograph Description An account of the resource Platinum print, hand-made paper, graphite. Photo: 23.4 x 18.4 cm Paper (studio name): 52.4 x 31.8 cm Board: 64.1 x 51.1 cm Adolph de Meyer photographed Grainger multiple times between 1903 and 1906—documenting the young musician’s maturation from late adolescence into adulthood. He lavished Grainger with expensive gifts and invited him to play at his many fashionable parties, paying him handsomely, an uncommon gesture among aristocrats. Emerging musicians were usually expected to play for no fee, with the exposure to potential patrons considered payment enough. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Baron Adolph de Meyer (1968–1946), London Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c 1903 Type The nature or genre of the resource Photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 13.0028 https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/grainger/files/original/e104958e935d70fa032f6809ba5c767d.jpg 686e6a542e1e6688eb05e6bb7074bd00 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Percy Grainger Subject The topic of the resource Photograph Description An account of the resource Platinum print, hand-made paper, graphite. Photo: 28.6 x 21.7 cm Parchment/Velum Paper?: 45.5 x 41.1 cm Board: 64 x 51.1 cm Baron Adolph Sigismund de Meyer is seen by many as the founder of fashion photography. Later in his career he was to work for both Vogue and Harpers Bazaar. In London he moved comfortably in the highest levels of society and photographed many of the celebrities he met. His style—strongly influenced by Tonalist and Impressionist painting—was extremely fashionable at the turn of the century. He would manipulate negatives and prints and often use a soft focus lens. Detail was stripped away and the quality of light on surfaces, as well as the modulation of shadows, was almost as important to his style as depicting the sitter. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Baron Adolph de Meyer (1968–1946), London Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c 1906 Type The nature or genre of the resource Photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 13.0031 https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/grainger/files/original/f8dbd6c40db65c112f98ee2455ab47bf.JPG 1e315aac14d51624d9ecb86c74b02b6b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Electric eye tone-tool Subject The topic of the resource Free Music Description An account of the resource Steel, PVC pipe, plastic sheet, globes, ink, electronics, speakers. One of Grainger and Cross’s last experiments before Grainger’s death in 1961 was an attempt to create a more immediate and accurate form of Free Music through the use of hand-drawn waveforms and light-sensitive circuits. This experiment used photocells (light-dependent resistors) rather than paper rolls and tone arms to translate pitch and volume markings, painted on plastic sheet, into sound. The original machine, never fully completed, was eventually disassembled after Grainger’s death. This reinterpretation also uses light-dependent resistors but connects them to digital Teensy microcontrollers loaded with the Mozzi software library. The addition of the hand crank enables the looped ‘score’ to be played forwards and backwards. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rosalind Hall and Michael Candy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016 Type The nature or genre of the resource Experimental instruments Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 16.0004 https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/grainger/files/original/4ecd9e8373eb4913f8bd3501b2a74455.JPG 09d26fa599c28f7c5da9006206b48da2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Reed box tone-tool Subject The topic of the resource Free Music Description An account of the resource Steel, brass, wood, accordion reeds, blower fans, linear bearings. In their original Reed box experiments, Grainger and Cross approximated the effect of gliding musical pitches by using closely-spaced microtones. They detuned harmonium reeds to microtonal intervals, using tape to weight the reeds. They then used a wooden waveform on rollerskates to control the motion of air from a vacuum cleaner blowing through the reeds. Cross later introduced electronic oscillators to create smoother gliding tones. This scaled-down version uses accordion reeds, also detuned by tape. Blower fans take the place of the vacuum cleaner and linear bearings streamline the design. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rosalind Hall and Michael Candy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016 https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/grainger/files/original/07046581b089e866d0739ed4af21f16c.jpg 305726ea4dd80800e08a14febbd71fb9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kangaroo pouch tone-tool Subject The topic of the resource Free Music Description An account of the resource Steel, brass, PVC pipe, paper roll, sewing machine belt, electronics. This machine demonstrates the method used by Grainger and Cross to control oscillators through the use of connected ‘tone arms’ and cut paper ‘scores’. Whereas Grainger and Cross hand-turned their eight oscillator tone-tool, this scaled-down version is operated by a hand crank that enables the looping score to be played in either direction. Here, a digital oscillator created using the Arduino electronics platform and the Mozzi software library is controlled using two paper rolls in the shape of Grainger’s ‘Hills and Dales’ scores. One roll controls the pitch of the oscillator while the other controls the volume level. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rosalind Hall and Michael Candy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016 Type The nature or genre of the resource Experimental instruments Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 16.0003 https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/grainger/files/original/71481785b39ad6bd7388d147acd7841a.JPG e1eb550ca51f57d87d0ad3b342401251 https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/grainger/files/original/9f3158affbd44b89320ce42093a0001f.JPG 6debd1830a7d9083c3c3d6dec6481506 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Portable harmonium (reed organ) Subject The topic of the resource Instruments Description An account of the resource Wood, ivory, felt, metal. Grainger wrote in 1929, ‘If I were forced to choose one instrument only for chamber music – I would choose the harmonium (reed-organ) without hesitation; for it seems to me the most sensitively and intimately expressive of all instruments… No other chord-giving instrument is so capable of extreme and exquisitely controlled pianissimo… Both in chamber-music and in the orchestra it provides the ideal background to the individualistic voices of the woodwinds.’ This portable harmonium was probably used by Grainger for Free Music experiments, as some of the keys have been adjusted and there is string tied to some of the black keys. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Billhorn Brothers, United States of America. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource n.d. (before 1941) Type The nature or genre of the resource Instrument Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 00.0036 https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/grainger/files/original/52e38031ebea61ff50ae189e2aa01159.jpg 95bf531fc6dcf85376539c2b8849b330 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Front cover of The Listener In, Melbourne. Subject The topic of the resource Printed media Description An account of the resource Digital reproduction of newsprint. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Listener In, Melbourne. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 25- March 2, 1956 Type The nature or genre of the resource Digital reproduction https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/grainger/files/original/535669799f854431831e34653034e3c1.tif 5008c156872e41cd7ddca609e1355a3c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Butterfly piano Subject The topic of the resource Free Music Description An account of the resource Iron, wood, steel, ivory, ebony, nails. Keen to explore the possibilities of Free Music, but lacking instruments that would readily play the ‘noteless’ gliding tones it required, Grainger and Cross modified existing instruments to make approximations of the intended effect. This Butterfly piano has had its lid and front panels removed, and some of the strings have been lengthened using nails as supports. The strings have then been re-tuned to musical pitches much closer to each other than regular piano notes. This instrument was tuned in 1/6 tones, so that playing a scale on it would produce a wave-like gliding tone effect. Percy Grainger’s Daybooks 1944-1960 Excerpt: Friday 6 June 1952 ‘Free Music Revamping Knoxville Butterfly Piano (Wurlitzer) & re-tuning it Three pitches to the 1/2 tone (got piano wire No. 13 from County Piano Co, $2.25)’ Excerpt Saturday 7 June 1952 ‘Mr Hunt’s tuner helped on below Finished converting Knoxville piano to Free Music’. Excerpt Saturday 14 June 1952 ‘Burnett worked at Pianola on piano, loosening it up. Tried Pianola on sample bit of roll (cut by Burnett) on Knoxville piano, sounded well. PG made 4 discs (for front) 3 (green, red, yellow) with gramophone records, 1 with Burnett’s translucent blue plastic.’ Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Wurlitzer Company, DeKalb, Illinois. Modified by Percy Grainger and Burnett Cross, 1952 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1940. Modified by Percy Grainger and Burnett Cross, 1952 Type The nature or genre of the resource Experimental instruments Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 00.0056 https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/grainger/files/original/ad12609d57a35066fd12222048e95287.jpg a0606c248ec95947b48b0ff1de9cff3d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grainger Museum display legend: Free Music Subject The topic of the resource Free Music Description An account of the resource Ink, paper, wood, tape, glass Grainger scored his compositions Free Music No.1 and Free Music No.2 (1936-7) for multiple theremins. These scores were reproduced by Grainger in this Free Music Legend which he made for the Grainger Museum’s official opening on 10 December 1938. The musical scores are like graphs: the y-axis indicates a pitch range from A sharp below middle C upwards for two octaves, and a volume range from ppp to fff; the x-axis indicates the flow of time. The scores were extremely difficult to perform accurately, and Grainger realised he would have to create his own instruments to bring his Free Music concept to reality. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Percy Aldridge Grainger Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 6 December 1938 Type The nature or genre of the resource Framed Works on Paper Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 04.0325