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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…

Digital print from scanned photograph.

Photograph of imprints made in the flesh by Knife and hot keys, 1902

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.

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…

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

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.

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…

Large, upright wooden frame with cross beams at side. Two vertical poles / tubes at each side divided into four sections with acetate discs. Paper reels (cut to represent pitch) are fed through a series of metal poles - a roller runs along top (cut)…

Steel, brass, PVC pipe, paper roll, sewing machine belt, electronics.

This machine demonstrates the method used by Grainger and Cross to control oscillators through the use of connected ‘tone arms’ and cut paper ‘scores’. Whereas Grainger and…

Silver gelatin print.

Photo: 14.5 x 9.7 cm
Photo and board: 30.2 x 24.7 cm

Joseph Taylor of Saxby-All-Saints, North Lincolnshire, was a bailiff on a large estate in the latter part of his life. He was also a traditional folksinger. In the year…