Laurie Scott Baker

Laurie Scott Baker (1943 – 16 November 2022) was a British composer and musician of experimental and electronic music. He was a pioneer of live electronics and graphic scores from the 1960s. Career Early life Laurence Baker was born 1943 in Sydney, Australia. From 1958 he studied at the Julian Ashton Art School. His musical career began playing double bass at the El Rocco jazz cellar, Sydney’s major jazz venue at that time, with his school friend pianist Serge Ermoll. He worked for the Sydney Morning Herald as a trainee graphic artist. Baker left Australia in 1964, working his passage in the band on the Greek liner Patris. Britain In London he worked on several collective projects with the composer Cornelius Cardew. He took part in Music Now, a concert society founded in 1968 by Victor Schonfield which introduced avant-garde music to British audiences, including the first UK performance of In C and also in the first performances of the composers Frederic Rzewski and John White. He took part in Christian Wolff’s ‘Burdocks’ concert. He was a member of the Scratch Orchestra from its formation in 1969. Following on from this came the formation in 1972 of Peoples’ Liberation Music with