According to Caitlin Yeo, a key screen composer and the current president of the Australian Guild of Screen Composers, ‘Our entire community is absolutely devastated today. He was absolutely instrumental in teaching nearly all of us. His legacy is gargantuan.’
Martin Armiger was a musician, composer, rock veteran, teacher and agitator. He ran the screen composition course at the Australian Film Television and Radio School for fourteen years and was president of the AGSC for seven years, after four years as vice-president.
