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The Lyre's Island: Some
Australian Music, Sound Art
and Design

curated by Douglas Kahn

LMJ CD Series Volume 6

(Image drawn from Percy Grainger's notes on experimental instruments.)

This CD accompanied the 1996 Volume of Leonardo Music Journal, which is published annually. Leonardo Music Journal with accompanying CD can be purchased by subscription through the MIT Press, or by individual copy through the MIT Press or at book stores that carry MIT Press books and journals. Selected LMJ CDs can be purchased through EMF.

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LEONARDO MUSIC JOURNAL VOL. 6 TABLE OF CONTENTS

LMJ6 CD Contents

Experiments to Provide Instruments for Percy Grainger's Free Music
Percy Aldridge Grainger with Burnett Cross

: Percy Grainger announces and demonstrates the specially tuned Butterfly Piano (June 1952).

Reed-Box-Tone-Tool plays gliding chords (ND).

AM Oscillator Test: A single voice moves over chords, then chords move (ND).

Percy Grainger announces and demonstrates an oscillator played by a "Hills and Dales" cardboard roll (2 November 1951).

Oscillator test pattern ("Kangaroo Pouch," three oscillators) announced and demonstrated by Burnett Cross (1 December 1952).

Images Have No Organs
Rainer Linz

Transpoes: A Digital Sketch of Australian Mimicry
Sherre DeLys

The Oscillators
Joyce Hinterding

Song to Dissolve the World
Jodi Rose

Window Pain
Frances Dyson

The Calling to Come
Paul Carter