[2] Created by Andrew Lonsdale who began producing electronic and experimental music in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia in 1980; releasing work in the early 80s Australian electronic/industrial/experimental music scene, including early Browning Mummery cassettes as well as others by boxmusik, ismISM (aka 471⁄2), and Atomic Disease (with late artist Nigel Gurney).
[3][4] In the early 80s Andrew performed as both boxmusik and Browning Mummery, and also played in several post-punk bands including Wrong Kind Of Stone Age and Mutant Death; in the late 90s Andrew recorded with John Murphy in industrial band Shining Vril.
Browning Mummery has appeared on many other compilations including BNE (Transcom, 2014) and All My Sins Remembered – The Sonic Worlds of John Murphy (Epicurean, 2016); the 2010 CD compilation Artefacts of Australian Experimental Music: volume ii 1973–1984 (Shame File Music, 2011);[8] and in the Vinyl On Demand "Magnetophonics" box set (2016).
[12][13][14] The Browning Mummery sound is genre-defying: drawing on experimental influences as well as techniques from dub, improvisation, industrial music, musique concrète, montage / cut-up, and environmental soundscaping.
[15] Browning Mummery has evolved from using tape and analog gear for composition and recording (including home-built instruments and processors by SwSw Thrght), to the use of digital equipment and computer-based techniques since 1988.