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Kangaroo-pouch Tone-tool Free Music experiment created by Percy Grainger and Burnett Cross, on display in the Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne
This photograph shows the Grainger and Cross's Kangaroo Pouch Tone Tool Free Music machine installed in the Grainger Museum, probably in the late 1950s. The machine was not fully complete when it was installed, and Cross visited the Grainger Museum…
Karen Holten
Sepia toned black and white photograph.
11.2 x 12.1 cm
Danish-born pianist, Karen Holten (1879–1953), was Grainger’s lover for eight years during the time he lived in London.
11.2 x 12.1 cm
Danish-born pianist, Karen Holten (1879–1953), was Grainger’s lover for eight years during the time he lived in London.
Karen Holten wearing Percy Grainger's clothes, Denmark, around 1909
Karen Holten and Percy Grainger were in a relationship in the early 1900s. Seehttps://museumsandcollections.unimelb.edu.au/news/items/finding-karen-holten-in-the-grainger-museum
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Telemusik/Mixtur, 1969, LP record, Deutsche Grammophon, Germany
The cover of the LP "Karlheinz Stockhausen: Telemusik/Mixtur", published in 1969 by Deutsche Grammophon, Germany.
German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007), described as the ‘most controversial musical innovator of our time’, has influenced…
German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007), described as the ‘most controversial musical innovator of our time’, has influenced…
Keith Humble at the Grainger Museum with improvisation instruments
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This image of Keith Humble, originally published in Post's World of Entertainment Review, shows him with some of his improvisation equipment, freeing music from traditional constraints.
Knife and hot key scars 1902
Digital print from scanned photograph.
Photograph of imprints made in the flesh by Knife and hot keys, 1902
Photograph of imprints made in the flesh by Knife and hot keys, 1902
Les Craythorn realising Percy Grainger’s Free Music on the Synthi 100
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…
Letter from J.C. Deagan to Percy Grainger, Chicago, 19 October 1916
Grainger enjoyed ‘liberty of the factory’ of J.C. Deagan, as he worked closely with the instrument maker to develop instruments specific to the new orchestral timbres he was seeking to create. In this letter, Deagan writes to Grainger regarding the…
Letter from Nellie Melba to Percy Grainger, sent from Portsea, 29 August 1916
Rose entrusted Melba with the secret of her own illness from syphilis. A month after writing to Percy about his father, Melba wrote, ‘I have received your letter & also read your Mother’s letter to Bella. I am so sorry for her & so humiliated that…
Letter from Ormond Professor Bernard Heinze to Percy Grainger, 25 September 1936, and accompanying photograph of the Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne.
In this letter, Heinze shares an image of the Grainger Museum at the completion of its first phase, with Percy Grainger. Grainger had participated in early design of the Museum, but was obliged to leave the project with the local team of architects,…