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Graduate composition student Kate Tempany was the 2019 Grainger Museum Composer-in-Residence. Kate’s composition, a deep blue shimmering haze, was created as an interactive soundscape for the exhibition How it Plays.

bronze bust

1. Amended Ground plan with "future staircase" marked (dated 3 October 1938)
2. Proposed Additions to the Grainger Museum (undated)
3. Ground plan, blue paper with white writing (undated)
4. Grainger Museum, sky-view sketch (December 1938)

Collection of architects' plans and miscellaneous sketches (some are layout plans in Ella Grainger's hand) of Grainger Museum, held in brown folder. This collection includes a set of blueprints (folded) dating from May 1935. Some other material…

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…

German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007), described as the ‘most controversial musical innovator of our time’, has influenced many musicians, inside and outside of the avant-garde music scene. Rock musicians including Frank Zappa, Peter…

Box percussion instruments created by John Seal were used by each APE member in a variety of performances.
For the performance of John Seal’s Structures at the Melbourne International Festival of Organ and Harpsichord at St Peter’s Church, East…

This Stupa is made from 11 individual components and is modelled on the three stupas (pagodas) known as Three pools reflecting the moon, from the West Lake in Hangzhou, China. In performance, the 11 components are sounded as individual percussion…

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…

Typed programme with annotations, 17 pages