Editing Tristram Cary (section)

==Career==
Cary was born in [[Oxford]], England, and educated at the [[Dragon School]] in Oxford and [[Westminster School]] in London. He was the third son and child of a pianist and the [[Ulster]]-born novelist [[Joyce Cary]], author of ''[[Mister Johnson (novel)|Mister Johnson]]''.<ref name=independent/><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w9s3Kbi4wJ0C&q=%22tristram+Cary%22+third+joyce+-wikipedia&pg=PA90 |title=Joyce Cary Remembered: In Letters and Interviews by His Family and Others |page=90 |isbn=9780389208129 |access-date=2020-05-26|last1=Fisher |first1=Barbara |year=1988 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield }}</ref> While working as a radar engineer for the [[Royal Navy]] during World War II, he independently developed his own conception of electronic and tape music, and is regarded as being amongst the earliest pioneers of these musical forms.<ref name=guardian/>

Following World War II, he created one of the first electronic music studios, later travelling around Europe to meet the small numbers of other early pioneers of electronic music and composition. He studied arts at the [[University of Oxford]] and went on to study composition, conducting, piano, viola and horn at [[Trinity College London]].<ref name=jo>Jo Litson, "Maestro with a motherboard", ''Weekend Australian'', 11–12 November 2000, Review, p. 20</ref>

With [[Peter Zinovieff]] and [[David Cockerell]], he founded [[Electronic Music Studios (London) Ltd]], which created the first commercially available portable synthesiser, the [[EMS VCS 3]], and was then involved in the production of such distinctive EMS products as the [[EMS Synthi 100]].

In 1967 he created an electronic music studio at the [[Royal College of Music]].<ref name=jo/> This led to an invitation from the [[University of Melbourne]] in 1973 for a lecture tour, which in turn led to an invitation to become the Visiting Composer at the [[University of Adelaide]] in 1974. He remained there as a lecturer until 1986. He also wrote music criticism for ''[[The Australian]]''.<ref name=jo/>