This excerpt captures a groundbreaking work of experimental music from the Australian composer, pianist, and pioneer of electronic music Jack Ellitt (1902-2001). Journey #1 was an early sound construction by Ellitt, recorded originally on film stock in c.1935, and later pressed by the BBC on a two-sided acetate disc in 1954.

Field recordings, editing cut-offs, and monophonic oscillator-like signals can be heard, resembling the movement 'musique concrete' despite predating it by a decade. Reflecting Ellitt's innovative taste, this clip pushes against the boundaries of musical composition.

Born Avrom Yitzhak Elitski to an orthodox Jewish Lithuanian family in Manchester in 1902, Ellitt mobed to Sydney soon after and studied at the NSW State Conservatorium of Music. He later moved to London with artist Len Lye, with whom he began experimenting on experimental film projects. An excerpt of Journey #1 (the B-side of the acetate disc) first appeared on the Artefacts of Australian experimental music: 1930-1973 compilation CD.