6/9/2023 0 Comments Make your own theme song![]() His first film score was for “The Ladykillers” in 1955, and he continued a career alternating cutting-edge experimental work with conventional concert compositions and TV, film and radio commissions. ![]() This studio even featured a 78-rpm disk-cutting lathe, replaced by more practical tape machines as soon as they became usable around 1952. ![]() He composed many conventional works during this time, but from 1947 was starting to build a “home studio”, largely from war surplus equipment. After the Second World War he studied at the Trinity College of Music in London, qualifying in 1950. He started his working life as a radar officer in the Royal Navy, already conceiving the ideas that would lead him to become a pioneer in a new form of music – tape music. Unforgivably, to my mind, his contribution is frequently overlooked in favour of the Stockhausens and Cages of this world, but a listen to his CD, Soundings (Tall Poppies Records TP139, 2000), should dispel any doubts as to his importance. Oxford-born Cary is one of the greats of contemporary music and a trail-blazer in the history of electronic and electro-acoustic composition.
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