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grant hughson

music and tech

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​musician – played with full orchestras, repertory in Orchestra pits, brass bands, soloist at the serious end of the NZ classical music scene as a youth based in Taranaki, New Zealand

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​national finalist solo cornet and in the Hawera Municipal Band at the NZ National championships A Grade competitions - aged 14

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NZ Youth Brass Band when 15 - played at the 1974 NZ Commonwealth Games. Toured NZ with the National Youth Band care on an airline called NAC

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Auckland University allowed him in, then a stint at computing, resigned to play music professionally 

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played with many musicians who were (before or later) in Children's Hour, Features the Gordons amongst others

 

member of EnCan MA who rehearsed occasionally and told people they were playing on the weekend, just to build intrigue, when they really were not playing, not really

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played live with the Newmatics a few times around the time that springbok tour was arriving soon, an edgy time

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​​Miltown Stowaways emerged while the Newmatics were splitting up, all members were writer composers of all material, an album and 3 EPs

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played, recorded and or toured with other bands like Peking Man, Netherworld Dancing Toys, Seven Deadly Sins, Rick Bryant's Jive Bombers, Midge Marsden, Wentworth Brewster... and so on, 

 

​​electronic music, music + computers - later he will add the computer part into this history piece but it all joins up again here on this website – and right now as well, for you anyway

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he now has a very large catalogue of experimental music self constructed with his home studio, some of that is being released here

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which is very brave as we all know what experimental means, don’t we

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