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In 1966 Humble established the Society for the Private Performance of New Music (SPPNM) at the Grainger Museum. SPPNM members, mostly young composers such as Ian Bonighton, met monthly at the Grainger, for ‘performance workshops’ directed by Humble.…

Maureen Bang, 'Even Cooking is Music to Him', The Australian Women's Weekly, August 1973, detail
Collection of John Whiteoak

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…

Typed programme with annotations, 17 pages

Typewritten schedule, 5 pages

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…

Newspaper clippling

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…

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…

Sound artist David Chesworth was only 21 when he composed and recorded '50 Synthesizer Greats'. Originally self-released, the album 50 Synthesizer Greats is actually 37 tracks of minimal synth investigations, full of humour and playful…

David Chesworth launched the re-release of his debut 1979 album '50 Synthesizer Greats' (Chapter Music) in September 2017 in a live performance at the Toff in Town venue in Melbourne. Chesworth recreated his parents’ 70s lounge room on stage and…