Kindly Supported by
Norman and Meryll Wodetzki
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Percy Grainger’s last great adventure into
experimental music saw him attempting to
build extraordinary music machines that
would revolutionise ideas about making
and experiencing music.
Grainger Museum
13 Royal Parade
University of Melbourne
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TIMES
EXPERIMENTS
IN FREEDOM
PERCY GRAINGER’S
FREE MUSIC MACHINES
Tue-Fri
Sat & Sun
Sat 15
10am – 4pm
12-4pm
12-9pm
In a collaboration between artist Michael
Candy and musician and composer
Rosalind Hall, these pioneering instruments
have been recreated so that audiences can
play and hear Free Music for themselves.
Located within the University of
Melbourne’s Grainger Museum are three
striking recreations of the machines the
composer produced in his attempt to
realise the gliding tones in his mind. For
the first time, audiences are able to actually
play and hear these instruments. You can
wind and rewind the gliding oscillations of
the Kangaroo Pouch Machine, operate the
Reed Box Tone Tool powered by air suction,
and watch as light turns to sound in the
Electric Eye Tone Tool!
Rosalind Hall is a musician and composer
exploring the possibilities of acoustic and
electronic instruments. Michael Candy is
a kinetic/new media artist investigating
unexpected relationships between
environments and sound.
CREDITS
Researcher and Producer
Rosalind Hall
Designer and Engineer
Michael Candy
Curator
Jonathon Drews
This project has been assisted by the
Australian Government through the
Australia Council for the Arts, its arts
funding and advisory body.
Image: Oscillator-playing tone tool machine.Courtesy of Grainger Museum.
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