TIM HODGKINSON
RIO/Avant-Prog • United Kingdom
From Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website
Tim Hodgkinson biography
Biography taken from Tim Hodgkinson's official website - http://www.timhodgkinson.co.uk/information.html
TIM HODGKINSON - COMPOSER
Born in 1949, graduate in social anthropology at Cambridge, co-founder of the politically and musically radical group Henry Cow in 1968, Tim Hodgkinson has followed a restless and critical creative path. To composition he brings a long and unique experience in musical improvisation and ethnomusicology. Whilst his scores do not incorporate improvisation as such, he has found a way of writing that draws not only on models of instability and timbre transformation, but also a sense of resistance against the hardening of technical and stylistic habits. In resonance with the dialogues between Francis Bacon and David Sylvester, he feels that composition is, above all, an artistic practice, a searching, cutting away, sculpting process of ongoing work, dealing and re-dealing with impulsion and doubt, vertigo, dirt, error and nerve.
In 1995 he presented his 50 minute long 'expressionist' work Stop Mortal at the QEH, inspired by the work of Tadeusz Kantor, with Nicholas Hodges, Dagmar Krause, Zoe Martlew and Charles Mutter. Following this, his composing underwent a marked change from a combinatorial and procedural emphasis to an acoustic and phenomenological one. This change catalysed the liberation-from-the-inside of a long experience in sound work which until then had been a hidden dimension in his scores. He started to collaborate with the Romanian composers Iancu Dumitrescu and Anna-Maria Avram and with the Hyperion Ensemble, founded by Dumitrescu.
In the same period he made a series of study trips to Siberia which brought him into close and ongoing contact with musicians and ritual specialists from non-western cultures. This, as he wrote in New Notes magazine, 're-focussed my approach to sound and my efforts to ground music in being.' He has published an article on Tuvan musical and sculptural aesthetics in Cambridge Anthropology Journal and contributed a paper to a symposium on music and shamanism at the School of Oriental and African Studies.
His compositions have been interpreted in such international festivals as: Spectrum XXI (Brussels, Paris, Geneva), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (U.K.), Craiova and Ploiesti Festivals (Romania), Guarda Festival (Portugal), Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte di Montepulciano (Italy), Konfrontationen Festival (Austria), Nordlyd Festival (Norway), Musi...read more
Biography taken from Tim Hodgkinson's official website - http://www.timhodgkinson.co.uk/information.html
TIM HODGKINSON - COMPOSER
Born in 1949, graduate in social anthropology at Cambridge, co-founder of the politically and musically radical group Henry Cow in 1968, Tim Hodgkinson has followed a restless and critical creative path. To composition he brings a long and unique experience in musical improvisation and ethnomusicology. Whilst his scores do not incorporate improvisation as such, he has found a way of writing that draws not only on models of instability and timbre transformation, but also a sense of resistance against the hardening of technical and stylistic habits. In resonance with the dialogues between Francis Bacon and David Sylvester, he feels that composition is, above all, an artistic practice, a searching, cutting away, sculpting process of ongoing work, dealing and re-dealing with impulsion and doubt, vertigo, dirt, error and nerve.
In 1995 he presented his 50 minute long 'expressionist' work Stop Mortal at the QEH, inspired by the work of Tadeusz Kantor, with Nicholas Hodges, Dagmar Krause, Zoe Martlew and Charles Mutter. Following this, his composing underwent a marked change from a combinatorial and procedural emphasis to an acoustic and phenomenological one. This change catalysed the liberation-from-the-inside of a long experience in sound work which until then had been a hidden dimension in his scores. He started to collaborate with the Romanian composers Iancu Dumitrescu and Anna-Maria Avram and with the Hyperion Ensemble, founded by Dumitrescu.
In the same period he made a series of study trips to Siberia which brought him into close and ongoing contact with musicians and ritual specialists from non-western cultures. This, as he wrote in New Notes magazine, 're-focussed my approach to sound and my efforts to ground music in being.' He has published an article on Tuvan musical and sculptural aesthetics in Cambridge Anthropology Journal and contributed a paper to a symposium on music and shamanism at the School of Oriental and African Studies.
His compositions have been interpreted in such international festivals as: Spectrum XXI (Brussels, Paris, Geneva), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (U.K.), Craiova and Ploiesti Festivals (Romania), Guarda Festival (Portugal), Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte di Montepulciano (Italy), Konfrontationen Festival (Austria), Nordlyd Festival (Norway), Musi...read more
Buy TIM HODGKINSON Music
-
DOUG LARSON IMPORTS — Buy prog rock music and rarities (5% off over $125, 10% off over $300, 135$+ Free shipping)
-
AMAZON — Search « HODGKINSON, TIM » CDs & Vinyls
TIM HODGKINSON forum topics / tours, shows & news
TIM HODGKINSON Videos (YouTube and more)
Showing only random 3 | Show all TIM HODGKINSON videos (1) | Search and add more videos to TIM HODGKINSON
-
Tim Hodgkinson Keyboard solo
(5 min 9 sec )Added by Grimfurg
TIM HODGKINSON discography
Ordered by release date | Showing ratings (top albums) | Help Progarchives.com to complete the discography and add albums
TIM HODGKINSON top albums (CD, LP, MC, SACD, DVD-A, Digital Media Download)
0.00 | 0 ratings
Splutter1985 |
0.00 | 0 ratings
Tim Hodgkinson & Ken Hyder - Shams1987 |
0.00 | 0 ratings
Valentina Ponomareva, Ken Hyder & Tim Hodgkinson - The Goose1992 |
3.67 | 3 ratings
Each In Our Own Thoughts1994 |
3.50 | 2 ratings
Pragma1998 |
0.00 | 0 ratings
Sang2000 |
2.00 | 1 ratings
Sketch of Now 2006 |
0.00 | 0 ratings
Klarnt2009 |
0.00 | 0 ratings
AMP2 + Tim Hodgkinson - Hums2009 |
0.00 | 0 ratings
Tim Hodgkinson & Milo Fine - Teshuvah2009 |
0.00 | 0 ratings
Onsets2014 |
0.00 | 0 ratings
Cuts2015 |
0.00 | 0 ratings
Chyskyyrai, Tim Hodgkinson & Ken Hyder - Siberia Extreme2019 |
4.00 | 1 ratings
Under the Void2020 |
TIM HODGKINSON Live Albums (CD, LP, MC, SACD, DVD-A, Digital Media Download)
TIM HODGKINSON Videos (DVD, Blu-ray, VHS etc)
TIM HODGKINSON Boxset & Compilations (CD, LP, MC, SACD, DVD-A, Digital Media Download)
TIM HODGKINSON Official Singles, EPs, Fan Club & Promo (CD, EP/LP, MC, Digital Media Download)
TIM HODGKINSON Reviews
Showing last 10 reviews only
Thanks to avestin for the artist addition.
|