http://www.theage.com.au/news/music/father-of-dr-who-dies/2008/04/28/1209234732996...
The father of electronic music wore tweed jackets, had a refined English
accent and smoked a pipe.
Tristram Cary, who has died in Adelaide, aged 82, came up with the idea of
electronic and tape music while a naval radar officer during World War II.
Mr Cary is renowned for composing the theme for the television sci-fi series
Dr Who and co-designing a synthesiser used by rock artists including Pink
Floyd, The Who and Roxy Music.
He founded the electronic music studio at London's Royal College of Music in
1967 and, seven years later, migrated to Australia to establish a similar
studio at the University of Adelaide's Elder Conservatorium of Music.
The conservatorium's head of music technology studies, Stephen Whittington,
said Mr Cary's contribution to music was "impossible to quantify".
"He laid the foundations," Mr Whittington said today.
"Without him, we wouldn't have techno, hip-hop or any kind of music which is
sustained by technology."
Mr Cary's father was prominent Irish-born novelist Joyce Cary.
"He had a really unusual childhood, his father was an author and TS Eliot
and James Joyce were always coming around for tea," Mr Whittington said.
