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Alan Lamb

1944 – 2025

Australian musician

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About Alan Lamb

Lived 1944 – 2025 (aged 80–81). Alan Lamb was an Australian composer.

Alan Lamb (1944 – 19 April 2025) was an Australian artist, composer and sound sculptor.

Life and career During the early 1970s Lamb studied for a PhD in neurophysiology at the University of Edinburgh.

He is best known for installations of large scale Aeolian harps, such as his album Primal Image, which consists of contact microphone recordings of kilometre long spans of telegraph wire on in rural Baldivis south of Perth purchased for that purpose.

Lamb died in Perth on 19 April 2025, at the age of 81.

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1944, Edinburgh
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Who was Alan Lamb?

Australian musician

When was Alan Lamb born?

Alan Lamb was born in 1944 in Edinburgh.

When did Alan Lamb die?

Alan Lamb died on 19 April 2025.

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Alan Lamb was a composer.

What nationality was Alan Lamb?

Alan Lamb was Australian.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Alan Lamb

· Wikidata: Q4707112

· DBpedia: Alan Lamb (musician)

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