Tristram Cary
Tristram Cary's electroacoustic music spans half a century of tape and computer invention, from dense analogue microcosms built for radio and film to sharp, playful late works for digital machines.
The early tape pieces still carry a real freshness of sound. Suites drawn from Leviathan '99 and The Children of Lir, Continuum, Steam Music and Narcissus for flute and tape turn limited studio resources into vivid drama. Later computer works keep that same restless drive: Nonet, Soft Walls, Trellises, and The Impossible Piano, an homage to Conlon Nancarrow that races with mechanical glee. He also wrote for the concert hall and the screen, including early Doctor Who and the Ealing comedy The Ladykillers, and answered Uluru with Messages for solo cello. A co-creator of the EMS VCS 3 synthesiser and one of the first British composers deep in musique concrète, he treated machines as living instruments rather than gadgets.
Tristram Cary is featured on the following titles
Full Spectrum
An early Move survey of Australian computer and digital music from the 1970s, opening with Barry Conyngham's realisation of Percy Grainger's Free Music 1 and 2, and continuing with works by Tristram Cary, Warren Burt and Darius Clynes.
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