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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…

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…

As early as 1904, His Master’s Voice named their concert grand model gramophone the ‘Melba’.

Melba also laid the foundation stone of the company’s first factory in Hayes, England. Following her death, an article in The Voice magazine reflected on…

Printing-out paper print.

Photo: 14.4 x 9.9 cm
Photo and card: 16.6 x 10.6 cm

Grainger developed a close, lifelong friendship with the Danish-born cellist and composer, Herman Sandby. Joined by Sanby’s partner Alfhild de Luce as ‘extra…

Collection of architects' plans and miscellaneous sketches (some are layout plans in Ella Grainger's hand) of Grainger Museum, held in brown folder. This collection includes a set of blueprints (folded) dating from May 1935. Some other material…

Silver gelatine print.

18.2 x 18.9 cm

Grainger working in his study at White Plains, New York.

This photograph shows the first stage of construction of the Grainger Museum at the University of Melbourne, Parkville.

Ink, paper, wood, tape, glass

Grainger scored his compositions Free Music No.1 and Free Music No.2 (1936-7) for multiple theremins. These scores were reproduced by Grainger in this Free Music Legend which he made for the Grainger Museum’s…