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Sydney Grew
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« on: 15:03:35, 30-04-2008 »
An Oxford man, one of the true pioneers of electronic music, he started experimenting as early as 1944 and was producing serious musique concrète by 1949. He worked in a record shop between 1951 and 1954, but later rather like Roger Smalley we suppose and probably disillusioned emigrated to the Antipodes.

Here is his 2000 orchestral work "Scenes from a Life" (10-minute MP3 file, 17398600 bytes).

Further notes: http://gadgetfreaks.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/tristram-cary-the-composer-of-the-dr-who-theme-tune-and-a-pioneer-of-electronic-music-has-died/
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« Reply #1 on: 13:46:00, 07-05-2008 »
Quote from: Sydney Grew on 15:03:35, 30-04-2008
An Oxford man, one of the true pioneers of electronic music, he started experimenting as early as 1944 and was producing serious musique concrète by 1949. He worked in a record shop between 1951 and 1954, but later rather like Roger Smalley we suppose and probably disillusioned emigrated to the Antipodes.

Perhaps you have a point there, Mr Grew. In Paul Griffiths's A Guide to Electronic Music (Great Britain, 1979), "a surprisingly informative book considering its modest size" according to the Musical Times, the name of Tristram Cary isn't even mentioned but Pink Floyd is mentioned at least three times!

In last Friday's Last Word on Radio 4 there was a tribute to Mr Cary. You can listen to the programme up to Friday via the listen back option:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/lastword.shtml

There's also a small obituary of Mr Cary in this week's issue of Der Spiegel.

Sorry for my late reply.
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« Reply #2 on: 15:51:40, 07-05-2008 »
There's a Guardian obituary here: http://music.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2277546,00.html

Well there's a thing. I never knew Joyce Carey was his dad before.
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