Hugh Davies
Composer
1943 – 2005
Who was Hugh Davies?
Hugh Seymour Davies was a musicologist, composer, and inventor of experimental musical instruments.
Davies was born in Exmouth, Devon, England. After attending Westminster School, he studied music at Worcester College, Oxford from 1961 to 1964. Shortly after he traveled to Cologne, Germany to work for Karlheinz Stockhausen as his personal assistant. For two years, he assembled and documented material for Stockhausen's compositions and was a member of his live ensemble.
From 1968 to 1971 Davies played in a group called the Music Improvisation Company. The group's guitarist Derek Bailey later wrote that "the live electronics served to extend the music both forwards and backwards Davies helped to loosen what had been, until his arrival, a perhaps too rarified approach".
Davies invented musical instruments that he constructed from household items. Among them was the shozyg, a generic name he used for any instrument housed inside an unusual container. The name is derived from the first of such instruments, which was housed inside the final volume of an encyclopaedia.
Davies was also a member of the Artist Placement Group during the mid-1970s.
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- Born
- Apr 23, 1943
Exmouth - Also known as
- Davies, Hugh
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Education
- Worcester College, Oxford
- Westminster School
- Died
- Jan 1, 2005
London
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on July 23, 2013
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