Tristram Cary remembered 1

Obituary by Charles Bodman Rae

The death of Dr. Tristram Cary in Adelaide on 24 April was a sad event that resonated within hours throughout the musical world, not only in Australia but around the globe, particularly across North America, continental Europe and the United Kingdom (as the scores of obituary appreciations have testified).

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Tristram Cary remembered 3

Eulogy by Jeffrey Harris

Tristram was a dear friend of our family for over thirty years. Gwen and I met him in the early 1970s at a party at the home of John and Jenny Morley at Hazelwood Park. It was one of those meetings where one knew on sight that we would be friends.

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Tristram Cary remembered 2

Eulogy by pianist Gabriella Smart

My friendship with Tristram was founded in storytelling. He was a great storyteller: there was history, musical and literary heritage and of course a great passion for all that he did – he had a gleam in his eye, and it was very infectious.

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Tristram Cary remembered 4

essay by Becky Llewellyn

In approaching the legacy of a man such as Tristram Cary, one is daunted by the sheer scale and scope of his life’s work and passions. He was literally a big man, and to find appropriate metaphors to hold that reality as we say farewell, it is probably most apt to think of a large mountain. As a composer, his output spans all known classical genres as well as being a pioneer of electronic music hardware, aesthetic and compositional techniques. What Australian composer of today has such breadth and depth?

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Music of the Spirit: Research Abstracts

This month the Aurora Festival will take place in the outer suburbs of Sydney. Showcasing a wide range of national and international composers in concerts given by some of Australia's best musicians, the festival – in conjunction with the University of Western Sydney – also includes Music of the Spirit, a series of intercultural concerts and forums...

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E-FORUM: Aurora Festival 2008, Music of the Spirit Concerts - Forum two

Electroacoustic Music and Beyond

Last night resonate magazine held its first e-forum in conjunction with the 2008 Aurora Festival’s Music of the Spirit event. Tonight we host another e-forum: panel members Houston Dunleavy, Chinary Ung, Michael Atherton, Andrian Pertout, Garth Paine and Roger Dean come together here in resonate magazine to chat about electroacoustic music and beyond, as a field of oppositions to disturb known paradigms and fuse sounds together as a new space/transcendent vision.

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E-FORUM: Aurora Festival 2008, Music of the Spirit Concerts - Forum one

Acoustic Music

Welcome to resonate magazine’s first e-forum, which is happening as part of the 2008 Aurora Festival’s Music of the Spirit event. This hour-long online discussion with panel members Diana Blom (moderator), Chinary Ung, Michael Atherton, Anne Boyd and Bruce Crossman kicks off a live panel discussion that will take place on 18 April at the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre in Penrith.

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Dulcie Holland: Building a Foundation

For Rita Crews, President of the Music Teachers' Association of NSW, the legacy of Dulcie Holland is also an important one. While sometimes dismissed as a composer of student works, Holland’s musical output during the ’50s, ‘60s and ‘70s was prolific...

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Listening to History: Some Proposals for Reclaiming the Practice of Music

Excerpt from the 2007 Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address

Last week violinist Jon Rose suggested – during his delivery of the 2007 Peggy Glanville Hicks Address – that only when we start to investigate and value our own extraordinary musical culture, will the cultural cringe that currently pervades Australia stop defining what constitutes our nation’s music...

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Post Impressions: A Travel Guide for Tragic Intellectuals

Extracts from Hollis Taylor's new book/DVD

An American woman (Hollis Taylor) and an Australian man (Jon Rose) set out to explore and perform on the giant musical instruments covering the continent of Australia: fences.

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Some Musical and Sociological Aspects of Australian Experimental Music

Experimental music has played a huge role in shaping the history of Australian new music. Warren Burt’s comprehensive overview of Australian experimental music from 1963 to 1993 provides enormous insight into the aesthetics, problems and political climate of this time...

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Questions, Questions ...

For composer Brad Gill, the compositional process is a complex negotiation. As one of the seven MODART07 participants, Gill reflects on writing for a cappella ensemble...

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