Tristram Cary

Electronic music pioneer Tristram Cary drew on his background as a World War II naval radar engineer to create a sprawling body of sound and tape manipulations spanning from film scores to concert pieces. As founding director of Electronic Music Studios, he also helped to design the VCS3 portable synthesizer, immortalized by Pink Floyd on their seminal 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon. Born in Oxford, England, on May 14, 1925, Cary was the third son of novelist Joyce Cary, best remembered for the classics Mister Johnson and The Horse's Mouth. While attending Westminster Sc...