Tristram Cary
Tristram Cary
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Tristram Ogilvie Cary
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Born: 14th May 1925 Oxford, England
Died: 24th April 24, 2008, Adelaide, Australia
Tristram Ogilvie Cary, OAM, was a British composer and pioneer of electronic music.
He worked as a radar engineer in World War II and at this time conceived ideas of early electronic and tape music. After the war he developed his first electronic music studio and studied composition, piano, horn, viola and conducting at Trinity College of Music in London, qualifying in 1950. He worked on concert music and on commissions for theatre, cinema (his breakthrough was the score for the classic Ealing comedy The Ladykillers in 1955) and television scores, most notably the theme for Dr. Who in 1963. In 1969 he founded Electronic Music Studios (London) Limited along with Peter Zinovieff and David Cockerell. He resettled in Australia in the 1970s where he worked as a university music lecturer and received regular commissions for music in various genres. In 1991 he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for services to Australian music.
Died: 24th April 24, 2008, Adelaide, Australia
Tristram Ogilvie Cary, OAM, was a British composer and pioneer of electronic music.
He worked as a radar engineer in World War II and at this time conceived ideas of early electronic and tape music. After the war he developed his first electronic music studio and studied composition, piano, horn, viola and conducting at Trinity College of Music in London, qualifying in 1950. He worked on concert music and on commissions for theatre, cinema (his breakthrough was the score for the classic Ealing comedy The Ladykillers in 1955) and television scores, most notably the theme for Dr. Who in 1963. In 1969 he founded Electronic Music Studios (London) Limited along with Peter Zinovieff and David Cockerell. He resettled in Australia in the 1970s where he worked as a university music lecturer and received regular commissions for music in various genres. In 1991 he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for services to Australian music.
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May 5, 2005He learnt to love weird sounds as a radio operator in the war. He also did some of the Quatermass music - brilliant as always.
He's got a couple of albums out that I know of - the soundtrack to the Daleks, along with some other bits, and another double CD called Soundings, containing works of his from several decades.
He also crops up on Hammer film music compilations and stuff like that.
Anyone who wants to create music with feel should listen to T.Cary - he KNOWS what scares you, children. Uncle Tristram KNOWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!