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Rhodri Davies (born Aberystwyth, 1971) is a harp player working within the field of free improvisation. He was one of the most prominent members of the London reductionist school of improvised music that was active in the late 1990s and early 2000s〔Bell, Clive, (”The Other Side of Silence” ), ''The Wire'', (issue 260, October 2005) pp.32–39〕 and which has been described as being "extremely influential over the last decade".〔Saunders, James, ''The Ashgate Research Companion to Experimental Music'', (Ashgate, 2009), p.228〕 Davies is also active in the field of contemporary composition where he has commissioned new works for the harp from leading avant-garde composers.〔 He has also worked as an orchestral player and as a session musician for Charlotte Church and Cinematic Orchestra amongst others.〔Hamilton, Andy, "Invisible Jukebox: Rhodri Davies", ''The Wire'' (issue 318, August 2010) pp.28–31〕 He has appeared on over 60 commercially available recordings. He has created a number of installations and performances which involve destroying or disassembling the harp.〔 In 2010 he was longlisted for the Northern Arts Prize〔(Longlist ) for the 2010 Northern Arts Prize〕 and in 2012 he was awarded a grant by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.〔(“Foundation for Contemporary Arts Announces Grants to Artists for 2012” ), FCA, January 2012〕 He is a board member of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and a trustee of the AV Festival.〔(Artist biography ) at Foundation for Contemporary Arts website〕 ==Improvisation== Davies started playing the harp at the age of seven and went on to study with Hugh Webb and Sioned Williams. Writing in ''Coda'' magazine David Lewis described him as "the most radical" of the harp players working within the field of improvised music as "he approached (harp ) as a sculptural sound object rather than as an established musical tool with a pre-designated musical role." Davies uses preparations such as wine corks along with a variety of beaters and resonators to tease out different timbres from the instrument. He sometimes employs an ebow to induce a harmonic drone.〔Lewis, David, "Changing Harp: The Radical Art of Rhodri Davies”, ''Coda'' (May/June 2004), pp.6–7〕 According to Davies, the reductionist school of improvisation with which he was associated in the late 1990s and early 2000s emerged as a result of "being disinterested in the busy, non-stop, energetic gesture playing. We associated that more with a link to free jazz, remnants of which were in Improv."〔 Critic Ben Watson described Davies' playing as "() Bailey's guitar writ large, the soundworld of Pierre Boulez shot through with the funk and low humour repartee of the improvisor ()".〔Watson, Ben, "Company, New York Tonic" in ''The Wire'', (issue 208, June 2001), p.87〕 His collaborators have included David Toop, Max Eastley, Derek Bailey and Evan Parker and he has long-term musical relationships with John Butcher and the groups The Sealed Knot (with Burkhard Beins and Mark Wastell), SLW (with Burkhard Beins, Lucio Capece and Toshimaru Nakamura), Cranc (with Angharad Davies and Nikos Veliotis) and Common Objects (various musicians). In 2011 he was part of a group of musicians selected to represent the British improvised music scene in a festival entitled "Just Not Cricket" in Berlin which was filmed as the basis for a forthcoming documentary.〔Graham, Steven, (“Just Not Cricket Festival of Improvised Music Confirmed For Berlin” ), ''Jazzwise'' (August 2011)〕 Other improvising harpists include Alice Coltrane, Zeena Parkins, Anne Le Baron, Clare Cooper, Helene Breschand and Carol Emanuel. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rhodri Davies (musician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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