Preserving the Don Banks Collection
This appeal closed on 30 June 2016. Any donations received after this date will be directed towards The National Library of Australia Fund, which supports conservation and digitisation of the Library’s collection.
Portrait of Don Banks in front of poster for UNSW Opera performance, photographer unknown, c1970-1980, nla.obj-136826587
Join with us to preserve and digitise the work of internationally acclaimed composer Don Banks (1923–1980).
In a career spanning jazz performances with Graeme Bell and Cleo Laine, film scores for Hammer horror films, compositions for classical ensembles and pioneering electronic music in Australia, Don Banks was, at one time, Australia’s most successful musical export. As an enduring testament to his contribution to, and influence upon, Australian music the Don Banks Estate and the Library continue to receive frequent requests for access to his collection of work, manuscripts and papers from students writing
Peter Zinovieff, composer and synthesizer innovator, dies at 88
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(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Peter Zinovieff, a composer and inventor whose pioneering synthesizers shaped albums by Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Roxy Music and Kraftwerk, died on June 23 in Cambridge, England. He was 88.
His death was announced on Twitter by his daughter Sofka Zinovieff, who said he had been hospitalized after a fall.
Zinovieff oversaw the design of the first commercially produced British synthesizers. In 1969, his company, EMS (Electronic Music Studios), introduced the VCS3 (for voltage controlled studio), one of the earliest and most affordable portable synthesizers. Instruments from EMS soon became a staple of 1970s progressive-rock, particularly from Britain and Germany. The companys slogan was Think of a sound now make it.
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