| Biography | Hugh Davies (Exmouth, Devon, 1943) is a freelance composer, instrument inventor, performer (primarily on his own invented instruments) and musicologist specializing in the new sound sources of the 20th and 21st centuries. He studied music at Oxford University, 1961-64 (BA), and was the assistant to the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne, 1964-66. As a Researcher at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales of the French Radio in 1966-67 he compiled a catalogue of electronic music compositions. From 1967 to 1986 he was the founder-director, and 1986-91 the research consultant, of the Electronic Music Studio, Goldsmiths1 College, University of London. In 1986-93 he was the external consultant for electronic musical instruments at the Gemeentemuseum, the Hague. He has been a co-founder of several British and international contemporary music organizations, including Secretary of the newly-founded International Confederation for Electroacoustic Music (1982-86). Since 1999 he has been a part-time lecturer in Sonic Art at the Centre for Electronic Arts, Middlesex University, London. |