Tristram Ogilvie Cary, OAM (14 May 1925 – 24 April 2008) was a pioneering English composer.
Cary was born in Oxford, England and educated at the Dragon School in Oxford and Westminster School in London. He was the son of a pianist and the novelist, Joyce Cary, author of Mister Johnson. While working as a radar engineer for the Royal Navy during World War II, he independently developed his own conception of electronic and tape music, and is regard...
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Tristram Ogilvie Cary, OAM (14 May 1925 – 24 April 2008) was a pioneering English composer.
Cary was born in Oxford, England and educated at the Dragon School in Oxford and Westminster School in London. He was the son of a pianist and the novelist, Joyce Cary, author of Mister Johnson. While working as a radar engineer for the Royal Navy during World War II, he independently developed his own conception of electronic and tape music, and is regarded as amongst the earliest pioneers of these musical forms.
Following the war he created one of the first electronic music studios, later travelling around Europe to meet the small numbers of other early pioneers of electronic music and composition.
With Peter Zinovieff and David Cockerell he founded Electronic Music Studios (London) Ltd, which created the first portable synthesiser, the EMS VCS 3, and was then involved in production of such distinctive EMS products as the EMS Synthi 100.
His concert works of note include a Sonata for guitar ...
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