Hugh Davies 1943-2005

[Eric Leonardson <eleon@ripco.com>]

David Toop wrote:

> Sad news: Hugh Davies died on the 1st January, 2005. Born in 1943, 
> Hugh was a pioneer of live electronic music, an inventor of musical 
> instruments, a composer, educator, and renowned researcher into the 
> history of electronic music. An assistant to Karlheinz Stockhausen 
> from 1964 to 1966, he participated in the recording of Stockhausen's 
> Mikrophonie I in 1965. Other recordings included wonderful LPs by 
> Music Improvisation Company and Gentle Fire, and his solo albums for 
> FMP and Grob. Anybody involved in live electronics, electronic 
> improvisation, hardware hacking, or, come to that, anybody who needs a 
> table in order to be able to perform, owes a debt to Hugh. He will be 
> sadly missed.

To learn about Hugh's work visit the Sonic Arts
site...http://www.sonic.mdx.ac.uk/staff/hugh.html

Best regards,
Eric

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Eric Leonardson
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