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Ian Bonighton, Sleep for 16-part choir and tape, 1968–69
Graphic music score (detail)
Grainger Museum Archive, 2017/23-2/2

Composer Ian Bonighton (1942-1975) was appointed Curator of the Grainger Museum in 1970, while also working towards his…

Philips Electrical Industries Pty Ltd, Australia, Three speed portable twin-track tape recorder, late 1950s

Grainger Museum Collection, 01.3513

This tape recorder was part of Percy Grainger's electronic music equipment, probably used by him in…

John Sinclair, Sound in its fury, Melbourne Herald, and two unidentified newspaper clippings, 1970



German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007), described as the ‘most controversial musical innovator of our time’, has influenced many…

Percy Grainger with Dr Earle Kent, and ‘Dr Kent’s Electronic Music Box’, USA, c.1951

Reproduction from original 35 mm slide

Grainger Museum Archive, 99.6700.1

With his Free Music experiments conducted through the 1940s and 1950s, Grainger…

Trios was essentially a musical game of chance, where three performers play a unique musical event, with content drawn from 16 ‘Events’ pre-created by Cary. The game is played by three players, one playing a VCS3, and the other two using DUAL…

Gift of Agnes Dodds. Grainger Museum Archive, 2017/30-1/1

35mm film

This photo shows Tristram Cary adjusting a knob on an EMS Synthi AKS portable synthesizer in the window of his studio. In the background is his Bechstein piano. This photograph was taken while Cary was composing the music for …

Manuscript score, Rare Music, Special Collections, University of Melbourne

Divertimento is an example of British composer Tristram Cary’s combination of electronic compositional techniques, including recorded sound, electronic sounds, and…

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…