{"id":670,"date":"2008-04-28T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=670"},"modified":"2010-01-02T19:56:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T19:56:53","slug":"tristram-cary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2008\/04\/tristram-cary.html","title":{"rendered":"Tristram Cary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">More bad news: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tristramcary.com\/\">Tristram Cary<\/a> has died at home in Adelaide, aged 82.  One of the first generation of electronic composers, Cary was a co-developer of the legendary <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/VCS3\">VCS3 synthesiser<\/a> but, as these things so often go, he&#8217;s best remembered as one of the first composers on early episodes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/doctorwho\/s4\/news\/080424_news_01\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Doctor Who<\/span><\/a>. <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Music Thing has <a href=\"http:\/\/musicthing.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/incredible-mechanical-adventures-of.html\">a great video about Cary<\/a> and his cohort, including archival footage of the man strolling round his studio filled with arcane electronic equipment while contentedly puffing on his pipe.  There&#8217;s also a geeky-cool photo of <a href=\"http:\/\/musicthing.blogspot.com\/2005\/06\/synth-cakes-part-4-now-were-getting.html\">a VCS3-shaped birthday cake<\/a>. <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve just realised I don&#8217;t have any recordings of Cary&#8217;s music.  Warren Burt has written <a href=\"http:\/\/members.iinet.net.au\/%7Etallpoppies\/index.cgi?tp=cd&amp;val=139\">a substantial review<\/a> of a number of his pieces on the 2CD retrospective <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Soundings<\/span>, giving some idea of the breadth and depth of Cary&#8217;s musical thinking.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More bad news: Tristram Cary has died at home in Adelaide, aged 82. One of the first generation of electronic composers, Cary was a co-developer of the legendary VCS3 synthesiser but, as these things so often go, he&#8217;s best remembered as one of the first composers on early episodes of Doctor Who. Music Thing has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2830,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions\/2830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}