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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Dictionary of musical technology
- Illustrated compendium of musical technology
- Sonata for guitar alone
- Soundings
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1925
- Active to
- 2008
Discography
- Quatermass And The Pit - The Film Music Of Tristram Cary Volume 11996
- The Quatermass Film Music Collection1999
- Soundings: Electroacoustic Works 1955-19962000
- Blood From the Mummy's Tomb2002
- Doctor Who: Devils' Planets2003
- It's Time for Tristram Cary (Works for Film, Television, Exhibition & Sculpture)2010
- Doctor Who: The Daleks2017
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- 6,094
- Total plays
- 75,264
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Tristram Cary is a British composer and an early pioneer in electronic music and musique concrete. Cary was educated at Westminster School in London, England and is the son of a pianist and the novelist, Joyce Cary, author of Mister Johnson. While working as a radar engineer for the British Navy during World War II, he independently developed his own conception of electronic and tape music. After the war he travelled around Europe to meet the small numbers of other early pioneers of electroni
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Place of birth
- Oxford
- Place of death
- Adelaide
- Father
- Joyce Cary
- Occupation
- film score composer
- Educated at
- Christ Church
- Employer
- University of Adelaide
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Conflict
- World War II
- Military branch
- Royal Navy
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- date of birth
- 1925-05-14
- date of death
- 2008-04-24
- start of work period
- 1943-00-00
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