six studies by Angharad Davies

The material for this solo CD was recorded primarily as a document of the preparations and techniques I was exploring at the end of March 2012 and as a reference point, for myself, to a time when I had actively stopped teaching for 3 months in order to clear space for my own projects. I hear the six studies as work in progress sketches and not necessarily as finished pieces. The preparations and techniques lead the music and I am looking to see how much I can draw out of each one before moving onto the next. The violin is acoustic, the preparations used are a small plastic peg, a spring and a nail file and the silences are kept alive as they were in the actual recording so as to reveal as much of the process as possible.

Angharad Davies plays violin and occassionally sings. Her regular collaborations include duos with Tisha Mukarji; Lina Lapelyte and Dominic Lash and she plays with Cranc; Common Objects and Skogen. Most of her music is released by Another Timbre.

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