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Unknown photographer, Cross-Grainger experiments 1950: ‘Sea-Song’ sketch, 3 Solovoxes played by Pianola Roll, 1950

Graphic reproduction of original photograph

Grainger Museum Archive, 99.5700

Grainger’s experimentation in electronic sound…

Chromogenic print from Kodachrome slide.

Photo: 23.9 x 9 cm
Photo and frame: 30.6 x 25.5 cm

This portrait depicts a frontal view of Cyril Scott as an elderly gentleman. He is not looking directly at the camera and is wearing a black suit with…

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…

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…

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,…

Detail of the EMS VCS3 at MESS, showing the patch panel and dials.

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…