Hugh Davies

Hugh Davies

Hugh Seymour Davies (23 April 19431 January 2005) was a musicologist, composer, and inventor of 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". [cite book |last= Bailey |first= Derek |title=Improvisation: Its nature and practice in music | publisher=Moorland Publishing | year=1980 | pages=112]

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 (covering the subjects from "SHO–" to "ZYG–").

Davies was also a member of the Artist Placement Group during the mid 1970s. [cite web| publisher=Tate Gallery |title=APG: Artist Placement Group |url = http://www.tate.org.uk/learning/artistsinfocus/apg/| accessdate=2008-09-19 ]

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