Tristram Cary is a British composer and an early pioneer in electronic music and musique concrete. Cary was educated at Westminster School in London, England and is the son of a pianist and the novelist, Joyce Cary, author of Mister Johnson. While working as a radar engineer for the British Navy during World War II, he independently developed his own conception of electronic and tape music. After the war he travelled around Europe to meet the small numbers of other early pioneers of electronic music and composition.