Rhodri Davies
Rhodri Davies is a harpist, improviser, composer and multidisciplinary artist. He plays harp, bray harp, horsehair harp, electric harp and builds wind, water, ice, dry ice and fire harp installations and has released eight solo albums. His regular groups include: HEN OGLEDD, Common Objects and a duo with John Butcher. He has worked with the following artists: Derek Bailey, Hamid Drake, Simon H Fell, Will Gaines, Jenny Hval, Sofia Jernberg, Kahimi Karie, Lina Lapelyte, Nicole Mitchell, Butch Morris, David Sylvian, Pat Thomas and Otomo Yoshihide. For the last twelve years Davies has been closely associated with the pioneering composer Éliane Radigue performing eighteen of her pieces. She composed OCCAM I for Davies in 2011, the first in an ongoing series of solo and ensemble pieces for individual instrumentalists in which a performer’s personal performance technique and particular relationship to their instrument function as the compositional material of the piece. New pieces for solo harp have also been composed for him by Christian Wolff, Carole Finer, Philip Corner, Mariam Rezaei, Phill Niblock, Ben Patterson, Alison Knowles, Mieko Shiomi and Yasunao Tone. In 2008 he collaborated with the visual artist Gustav Metzger on ‘Self-cancellation’, a large-scale audio-visual collaboration in London and Glasgow. In 2012 he was the recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Grants to Artists Award, he was a Chapter Associate Artist (2016-19) and in 2017 he received a Creative Wales Award. He is a co-organiser of the NAWR concert series in Abertawe. www.rhodridavies.com
Eimear Reidy
Eimear Reidy is a cellist, composer and improviser. Her approach to the music making is informed by baroque rhetorical styles and storytelling, mixed with a rigorous exploration of extended techniques and an ever evolving approach to the instrument. She has been commissioned to write and perform for theatre, visual art and dance and regularly performs new work as a soloist and with a variety of ensembles at contemporary art centres and festivals including The Dock, The Sirius Arts Centre, The Guest House, Body and Soul, Feile Na Greine, Idir Dha Thra, Spike Cello Festival and Tradition Now. Eimear frequently collaborates with musician Natalia Beylis with whom she has recorded two albums,; Whose Woods These Are and She Came Through The Window to Stand By The Door both of which were released on Nyahh records as well as her solo cello album, Things That Happened At Sea.Eimear is currently on residency at The Dock Arts Centre, Carrick On Sjhannon.
2/3rds of a Good Thing
For this performance 2/3rds of a Good Thing are Owen Green and Jules Rawlinson, two people from the three that make up Raw Green Rust, an improvising laptop trio that make abstract glitch-dub and chamber noise that draws on wide ranging musical interests and interconnectedness. We try to make a virtue of the confusion of agency that collective laptop music can bring with playful use of technology and we constantly sample, transform and process each other in real-time, in pursuit of an organic, shifting sound mass – https://rawgreenrust.bandcamp.com
