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Gift of Agnes Dodds. Grainger Museum Archive, 2017/30-1/1

Trios was essentially a musical game of chance, where three performers play a unique musical event, with content drawn from 16 ‘Events’ pre-created by Cary. The game is played by three players, one playing a VCS3, and the other two using DUAL…

Percy Grainger with Dr Earle Kent, and ‘Dr Kent’s Electronic Music Box’, USA, c.1951

Reproduction from original 35 mm slide

Grainger Museum Archive, 99.6700.1

With his Free Music experiments conducted through the 1940s and 1950s, Grainger…

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…

Philips Electrical Industries Pty Ltd, Australia, Three speed portable twin-track tape recorder, late 1950s

Grainger Museum Collection, 01.3513

This tape recorder was part of Percy Grainger's electronic music equipment, probably used by him in…

Ian Bonighton, Sleep for 16-part choir and tape, 1968–69
Graphic music score (detail)
Grainger Museum Archive, 2017/23-2/2

Composer Ian Bonighton (1942-1975) was appointed Curator of the Grainger Museum in 1970, while also working towards his…

Ian Bonighton, Sequenza, 1971
Grainger Museum Archive, 2017/23-2/10

Ian Bonighton (1942-1975) graduated in Music from the University of Melbourne in 1968, studying composition with Keith Humble. He was appointed to the teaching staff of the…

Ian Bonighton, In Nomine, for tape, percussion and optional organ, first performed 1973 (details)

Graphic music score. Grainger Museum Archive, 2017/23-2/11

Composer Ian Bonighton (1942-1975) was appointed Curator of the Grainger Museum in…

Unknown photographer, probably Robert Hyner. The Grainger Museum experimental music displays and workshops, c.1966–67

Grainger Museum Collection, Robert Hyner.

When he arrived at the Grainger Museum in 1966, Humble worked with Grainger curator…