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Graham Bowers was born during a World War II bombing raid on Manchester in 1943. Brought up on a mixed diet of his older sisters’ interests in 1940s and 1950s popular music, and his father’s record collection of jazz and country blues, an eclectic mix of artists such as Johnny Ray, Guy Mitchell, Django Reinhardt, Sidney Bechet and Leadbelly were household names, and marked the milestones of his early life. His interest and fascination in “associative listening” (the association of sound related to life experiences) was thus already formed, and has developed throughout his life acting as the cornerstone and benchmark of his creative output. Image File history File linksMetadata Graham_Bowers. ...
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Manchester is a major city within Greater Manchester in North West England, historically notable for being the worlds first industrialised city, and its subsequent central role in the Industrial Revolution. ...
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1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ...
1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
John Cornelius Ray (born March 1, 1957 in Chouteau, Oklahoma) is a former second baseman in Major League Baseball who had a 10-year career from 1981 to 1990. ...
Guy Mitchell (February 22, 1927-July 1, 1999) was an American pop singer, who was even more successful in the United Kingdom than his homeland, despite being an international recording star of the 1950s with five #1 singles. ...
Jean Baptiste Django Reinhardt (January 23, 1910 – May 16, 1953) was a Belgian Roma jazz guitarist. ...
Sidney Bechet Sidney Bechet (May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959) was a Jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. ...
Leadbelly, also known as Lead Belly (born Huddie William Ledbetter; January 20, 1889 (although this is debatable) - December 6, 1949), was an American folk and blues musician, notable for his clear and forceful singing, his virtuosity on the twelve string guitar, and the rich songbook of folk standards he introduced. ...
His early teenage musical activities were involved in forming and being part of skiffle groups, a genre of music in England championed by Lonnie Donegan, at that time the banjoist in the Chris Barber traditional jazz band. Songs such as ‘Rock Island Line’, ‘Cumberland Gap’ and ‘John Henry’ which although well known to Bowers were new to most post-war English listeners. Skiffle music is a type of folk music with a jazz and blues influence, usually using homemade or improvised instruments such as the washboard, tea-chest bass, kazoo, cigar-box fiddle, or a comb and paper, and so forth. ...
Lonnie Donegan MBE (April 29, 1931 – November 3, 2002) was a skiffle musician, possibly the most famous of them all. ...
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Engineering and Industrial Design Marital and parental duties at the young age of seventeen, and the necessity of providing an income, diverted him into the engineering industry. Extensive technical studies led to a career in draughtmanship and design projects relating to Airframe Structures and Flight Instrumentation within the aeronautical industry (Avro Shackleton Bomber, Avro Vulcan Delta-Wing Bomber, Blue Steel missile, SEPECAT Jaguar, Panavia Tornado, Concorde Prototype). The Shackleton was a Royal Air Force long-range patrol bomber developed from the Avro Lincoln bomber with a new fuselage. ...
The Avro Vulcan was a British delta-wing subsonic bomber, operated by the Royal Air Force from 1953 until 1984. ...
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The SEPECAT Jaguar is an Anglo-French ground attack aircraft in service with the Royal Air Force and several export customers, notably the Indian Air Force. ...
The Panavia Tornado is a family of twin-engine fighters, which was jointly developed by the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy. ...
The Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde supersonic transport (SST), along with the Tupolev Tu-144, was one of only two models of supersonic passenger airliners to have seen commercial service. ...
His knowledge and expertise in sheet-metal fabrication led to his involvement in a small design team set up by Wellcome Medical Equipment, a division of the Wellcome Foundation, to design and manufacture a new concept in Medical Operating Theatre design, many hundreds of which are now installed throughout Europe, and the Middle and Far East. This was followed by his own independent design which was lodged and patented as an invention for the building of environmentally controlled rooms (Medical Operating Theatres, MRI/CAT/PET Scanning Rooms, RF Shielded Rooms). Other areas of work within this field of industry included the design and invention of a rapid deployment environmentally controlled enclosure for emergency medical usage in disaster areas (ongoing). New Wellcome Trust building on Euston Road The Wellcome Trust is a United Kingdom-based charity established in 1936 to disburse the fortune of the pharmaceutical magnate Sir Henry Wellcome and the income of Burroughs Wellcome & Co. ...
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He also became involved with Amek Systems & Controls, a small company at the time, but which became one of the world leaders in the production of professional audio mixing consoles for the recording and broadcasting industry. His input was the design, realistion and manufacture of the mechanical hardware and styling aspects of all their product lines. The company received the “Queen’s Award to Industry” in 1985, 1986 and 1987.
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Sculptures, Structures and Dance-works Although the work in the engineering world of industry limited any serious and professional musical activity for some time, his artistic activities had found an outlet in painting and sculpture. It was this work and a chance meeting with the legendary American choreographer Alwin Nikolais which led to his involvement in the world of ‘Performance Theatre’, where he was involved for several years, working and collaborating with theatre directors and choreographers (Royston Maldoom, Shelley Lee, Peter Royston, Tamara McLorg, Ailsa Burke), dancers (Elaine McDonald, Paul Russell, Andrea Durant, Frank McConnell), composers (Gordon McPherson, Mel (Ian Mellish), Tony Moss, Jon Anderson, William Henshall), musicians (Peter Gallagher) on large and small scale productions, from regional experimental theatre groups, international ballet companies to international rock tours. Alwin Nikolais born in 1910 in Southington, Connecticut]. He studied piano at an early age and began his performing career as an organist accompanying silent films. ...
Royston Maldoom is a choreographer whose works, including Adagietto and Ursprung, have been performed for various dance companies, such as The Jefferson Dancers and Dance Theatre of Harlem. ...
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Yes co-founder Jon Anderson Jon Anderson (born October 25, 1944) is a British musician, best known as the lead singer of the progressive rock band Yes. ...
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Sculpting has resulted in private and public commissions ( St David's Hall the national concert theatre of Wales, The Space at Dundee) and the creation and realisation of animatronic characters for a television series in collaboration with the writer and creator of The Bradshaws, Buzz Hawkins. St Davids Hall is a performing arts and conferencing venue situated in the heart of Cardiff city centre, Wales. ...
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Music, Film and Multimedia His approach to musical composition developed out of his life long fascination with “associative listening” and evolved into a genre of music which he describes as "Sound Theatre". His debut album, Of Mary's Blood was released in 1995 on the Red Wharf label. The first in a trilogy, Of Mary's Blood combined classical, progressive and experimental music into one long continuous track. Produced and recorded with Peter Gallagher, with musical contributions from Mark Porter, it received critical acclaim from the international music press (The Wire, Audion, EST, e/i, Mouvement-Nouveau) as did all of his subsequent releases. It was followed in 1997 by Transgression, and the trilogy finished up a year later with Eternal Ghosts, featuring musical contributions from Tim Franks, Peter Gallagher, Mark Porter, Jim Keddie, and William Henshall. The CDs of each published work were accompanied with a fold-out booklet containing a triptych of his surrealistic paintings. Of Mary’s Blood is the dubut album by Graham Bowers avant-garde British composer. ...
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Of Mary’s Blood is the dubut album by Graham Bowers avant-garde British composer. ...
The Wire is a British avant garde music magazine, often nicknamed the chinstrokers bible. It was founded in 1982 by jazz promoter Anthony Wood and journalist Chrissie Murray, and concentrated on contemporary jazz and improvised music. ...
Transgression is the second album by Graham Bowers avant-garde British composer. ...
Eternal ghosts is the third album by Graham Bowers avant-garde British composer. ...
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After an absence due to a serious accident, he wrote and recorded several sound scores for fine art animation films, in collaboration with film-maker Clive Walley; these included an MTV ident and a series of “Short Shorts” for the British television channel S4C. He has also produced two of his own short films Hiraeth and “conception deception discovery” both of which have been shown at international film festivals. MTV (Music Television) is an American cable television network headquartered in New York City. ...
S4C (Sianel Pedwar Cymru - Channel Four Wales) is a Welsh-language television channel broadcasting in Wales, United Kingdom, which was established in response to demands for a channel to cater for the Welsh-speaking minority population in Wales. ...
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Bowers finally returned to his own full length conceptual compositions of "Sound Theatre" with Pilgrim . Pilgrim is the fourth album by Graham Bowers avant-garde British composer. ...
The musical works have been played and written about extensively in recent years, receiving extended half-hour and two-hour air-play features on national and regional radio stations in the UK, Holland, Germany, Australia and the USA.
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