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For those not aware of this, Tristram Cary, composer and elecgtronica pioneer, died on Thursday here in Adelaide aged 82.
He was making musique concrete in the fifties, helped design the VCS3, wrote electronica for early Doctor Who episodes (wrote the soundtrack to the first Daleks episode), pioneered computer music and was just generally one of the grandfathers of all of us here.
Obituary from Adelaide University:
Tristram Cary OAM 1925-2008
Tristram Cary died on April 24, 2008 in the Royal Adelaide Hospital, following complications arising from an operation. Dr Cary was internationally recognised as one of the founders of electronic music and a source of inspiration for subsequent generations of musicians working in what has become one of the most important fields of contemporary music. His influence on music was global. Cary was born and educated in the UK, and from the mid 1950s worked full time as a professional composer. His first movie score was for the Ealing comedy The Ladykillers (1955), and he attained lasting fame as the composer of the 'Dalek' theme from the BBC series Dr Who. He founded the electronic music studio at the Royal College of Music in 1967 before emigrating to Adelaide in 1974, where he directed the Electronic Music Studio at the Elder Conservatorium, turning it into the leading facility of its kind in Australia. He retired in 1986, but has remained associated with the University as an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow, composing and publishing widely, and taking the degree of Doctor of Music in 2001. His many awards and honours included an OAM for services to music in 1991, and the Adelaide Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.
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