"Hills and dales" air-blown-reeds tone-tool No. 1 <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Free+Music">Free Music</a> watercolour, ink and graphite on paper Illustration showing graphic elevations of the instrument. Top half of page depicts the whole instrument with parts labelled or given desciptions, bottom half of page depicts close-ups of individual joins and how they function within the instrument. <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Grainger%2C+Percy%2C+1882-1961">Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961</a> 1951 <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Drawings">Drawings</a> 04.0166 "Hills and dales" air-blown-reeds tone-tool No. 6 <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Free+Music">Free Music</a> watercolour and ink on paper Illustration of Instrument with details of description, materials and functions. <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Grainger%2C+Percy%2C+1882-1961">Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961</a> 1951 <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Drawings">Drawings</a> 04.1710 "Kangaroo Pouch" method of synchronising and playing 8 oscillators <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Free+Music+drawing">Free Music drawing</a> Copyright Grainger Estate Watercolour and ink on paper, 28 x 21.8cm 04.0175 <em>Reflection</em> 2004 Elaine Miles is an artist with a 25-year career that revolves around the ancient craft of glass making. For over 15-years Miles has embraced an intuitive approach to exploring the potential of glass as sound material (or as a source of ‘free’ form melody). Miles’ hand-blown glass has been heard and seen in exhibitions, recordings and live performances nationally and internationally. Arguably the most significant collaboration of Miles’ career has been with Speak Percussion’s Director, percussionist and composer Eugene Ughetti. Miles and Ughetti collaborated from 2005 to 2010 under the name&nbsp;<em>The Glass Percussion Project (GPP)</em>, with an evolution built alongside and intertwined with Ughetti’s involvement with&nbsp;<em>Speak Percussion</em>.<br /><br />These hand-blown glass gongs were first played by musicians in Elaine’s lounge room in 2004. They were arranged into Balinese Pelog scales and resonated with sounds like Gamelans. When Eugene Ughetti first saw the glass gongs at Miles’ home in 2005, he conceptualised a different approach to how the gongs could be sounded. This was realised through the following years of Miles’ and Ughetti’s collaboration. When the gongs were played as part of <em>The Glass Percussion Project</em>, Ughetti brought a strong interest in what he called “new tuning systems”. <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Elaine+Miles">Elaine Miles</a> On loan to the Grainger Museum from Elaine Miles 2004. Display in Grainger Museum 2019 On loan from Elaine Miles a deep blue shimmering haze <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Federation+Handbells%3B+How+it+Plays%3A+Innovations+in+Percussion">Federation Handbells; How it Plays: Innovations in Percussion</a> <p>Graduate composition student Kate Tempany was the 2019 Grainger Museum Composer-in-Residence. Kate’s composition, <em>a deep blue shimmering haze</em>, was created as an interactive soundscape for the exhibition How it Plays. <em><br /></em></p> <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Kate+Tempany">Kate Tempany</a> 2019 Copyright Kate Tempany, 2019 A gathering of men in front of a gate and hedge row. <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> Black and white photograph. 16.5 x 21.6 cm The men present in the picture are (left to right): Scott, Quilter, PG, Norman O’Neil, Edward Milner, Basil Cameron. Inscriptions at the back appear to relate to the handling of the photograph. <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Unknown.">Unknown.</a> 26/07/1929 Photograph <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> Advertisement for Madame Melba's Gramophone Records, The Illustrated London News, 14 September 1907 <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Objects+of+Fame%3A+Nellie+Melba+and+Percy+Grainger">Objects of Fame: Nellie Melba and Percy Grainger</a> Melba was aware of both the commercial benefits and broad reach that gramophone records offered. This advertisement promotes her records at reduced prices with the aim of making them accessible to a greater number of people. Australian Performing Arts Collection, Arts Centre Melbourne Arts Centre Melbourne 14 September 1907 Australian Performing Arts Collection, Arts Centre Melbourne 2009.000.074 Annotated opera score for Lohengrin by Richard Wagner, signed Nellie Armstrong, Paris, 22 April 1887 <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Objects+of+Fame%3A+Nellie+Melba+and+Percy+Grainger%0D%0A">Objects of Fame: Nellie Melba and Percy Grainger </a> This opera score was inscribed prior to Melba’s adoption of her famous stage name in December 1887. A derivation honouring her native city of Melbourne, the name was selected to sound Italian and be easily remembered. Despite her success as Elsa in Lohengrin, Melba’s voice was not suited to heavy Wagnerian operas. After her disastrous attempt at singing Brünnhilde in Siegfried in 1896, she stopped performing these roles. <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Royal+Edition%2C+Boosey+%26+Co%2C+London+">Royal Edition, Boosey & Co, London </a> Australian Performing Arts Collection, Arts Centre Melbourne Grainger Museum 22 April 1887 Arts Centre Melbourne Australian Performing Arts Collection, Arts Centre Melbourne 1981.024.001 | Gift of Pamela, Lady Vestey, 1981 Assembly Operation Ceramic Stupa, 2017 This Stupa is made from 11 individual components and is modelled on the three stupas (pagodas) known as <em>Three pools reflecting the moon</em>, from the West Lake in Hangzhou, China. In performance, the 11 components are sounded as individual percussion instruments and gradually constructed to reveal this form, which is also featured on the one Yuan (RMB) note. <br /><br /><em>Assembly Operation</em> uses objects in performance to connect a multitude of interrelated ideas. These objects are simultaneously musical, visual and theatrical. <em>Assembly Operation</em> is a work born out of the Chinese one Yuan (RMB) note. All of the central concepts and imagery of the work can be traced back either metaphorically or literally to one side of the one Yuan note. Within the scene <em>Three pools reflecting the moon&nbsp;</em>there is a body of water, a bridge and three stone stupas (pagodas). <em>Assembly Operation</em> brings together three percussionists who form an assembly line to extract exquisite sound from three iconic representations of Chinese culture: paper, ceramics and low-fi electronics. <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Jia+Jia+Chen+%28artist%29">Jia Jia Chen (artist)</a> 2017 On loan from Speak Percussion On loan from Speak Percussion Autograph book given by Nellie Melba to her cousin Amy Walker, 1904 <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Objects+of+Fame%3A+Nellie+Melba+and+Percy+Grainger">Objects of Fame: Nellie Melba and Percy Grainger</a> This autograph book contains inscriptions and signatures from many people associated with Melba. Included are: Giacomo Puccini, Paolo Tosti, Mathilde Marchesi, Salvatore Marchesi, Haddon Chambers, Herman Bemberg, Efrem Zimbalist, Elizabeth Parkina, Toti Dal Monte and Browning Mummery. Australian Performing Arts Collection, Arts Centre Melbourne Grainger Museum 1904 Arts Centre Melbourne Australian Performing Arts Collection, Arts Centre Melbourne 1997.081.001 | Purchased, 1997