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This program was an in-house double-sided program for the 1971 seminar at the University of Melbourne, The State of the Art of Electronic Music in Australia

Tape of electronic music by Val Stephen.

German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen visited Australia for ten days in April 1970. He gave concert-lectures on electronic music around the country, including three programs in Wilson Hall, at the University of Melbourne. Delivered through a battery…

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…

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.

This is a diagram drawn by composer Ian Bonighton of a ring modulator, used in electronic music. Bonighton's 1969 Master of Music included a section on Electronic Equipment used in composition, and he included circuit diagrams of the ring modulator…

Paris-based Australian painter, Rupert Bunny, was commissioned by Percy Grainger to paint this portrait in the first few years of the young musician’s professional career. Bunny depicted Grainger holding a sheet of music and focussed attention on his…

Ernest Thesiger was one of the closest of the many artist and musician friends that Grainger made, especially in the first decades of his career. Thesiger was an aspiring painter when he made this drawing, and later became a stage and film actor.…

Grainger’s charisma, captured in many photographic studio portraits, helped to launch and sustain his performance career. This photograph was taken by Hana Studios, London, which specialised in theatrical photography.

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…