October 2009 (3)
I have been invited to be involved in a project organised by the
Solent Centre for Architecture and ArtSway to work in a team of three to design
temporary artists studios in the New Forest National Park.
October 2009 (2)
Plans for tram piece developing fast.
Two pieces: one of which will be about a fjøssenisse who looks after the trams;
the other a small sound/light installation in the woods at the end of the
line.
October 2009 (1)
The concert in Trondheim will be on a tram (on the Gråkallbanen)
! The tram to be used is a vintage tram, which will have a bar.
Music is played on the tram as it goes from the cathedral up into the hills.
September 2009
Next year I am hoping to write a concert/installation piece for a
new music ensemble in Trondheim (Norway). As a lead up to that they
will be doing a piece of mine in a Cristmas concert in the middle of December.
July/August 2009
I am one of the resident artists at Plymouth Arts Centre Transmissions
2009 festival – an innovative festival of sonic/radio art. They
will be installing part of Music for Libraries , and providing listening
facilities for a new stereo collage work Dejeuner sur l'herbe and
a stereo version of Lick.
July 2009
Rehearsals and preniere of 37-part invention. EYO will be
taking the piece on tour with them in Belgium this summer
April 2009
Piece for Ealing Youth Orchestra - 37-part invention - finished
March 2009
Up to Aberdeen again, this time for the premiere of Sinfonietta
Concertante performed by South/Central Aberdeenshire Youth Orchetsra
at the Aberdeen Music Hall.
January 2009
Started writing a piece for the 50th anniversary of Ealing Youth
Orchestra
November 2008
Up to Aberdeen for open rehearsal of Sinfonietta Concertante
.
October 2008
Recording for the installation Lick which is going to be
used at the opening of the 2008 Sound Festival, and at the festival's saxophone
weekend. The piece features Ben Waghorn (tenor sax) and James Morton
(alto sax). Lick was constructed as follows: first a rhythm section
(Jim Barr on bass, Trevor Davies on drums and HD at the piano) recorded a
rhythm track, which gave backing for a 2-chorus blues head followed by five
different sets of blues changes, each played five time, followed by the head
again. Then the sax players recorded five different takes playing and improvising
over this backing. These takes were done 'back-to-back', and the players
were not allowed to listen to what they or each other had done. In
performance Lick is different combinations of these takes superimposed
on one another. The object was to create some furious chance counterpoint
and interplay. The rhythm section is never heard.
July 2008
Final set-up of Gwair gwyrdd, gwyrdd o gartref ( The green,
green grass of home ). This involved large piece sof mdf cut out
in the shapes of letters, that were pinned down (with over 700 tent pegs!)
on Pontcanna Fields in Cardiff. After two weeks the mdf was removed
to reveal words printed in bleached grass. Really pleased with the
results.
This grass print piece was commissioned by SAFLE and Eisteddfod
Genedlaethol Cymru. Installed at the 2008 National Eisteddfod, Pontcanna Fields,
1-8 August 2008.
August 2008
There will be more than one Olympic Ringtone. The first is now available
for download FREE from http://ringingin.co.uk/
. Others will become available over the next 12 months.
July 2008
Culture South West has commissioned a ringtone (to be available as
a free download) to celebrate the handover of the Olympic Flag from Beijing
to London.
May 2008
SAFLE have commissioned a new work for presentation at this year's
National Eisteddfod in Cardiff.
April 2008
sound (http://www.sound-scotland.co.uk/) and Aberdeenshire
Council have commissioned a new work for Aberdeenshire Schools Orchestra with
funds from the Scottish Arts Council and PRS Foundation, to be given an open
rehearsal during the sound 2008 festival and have its first performance in
December 2008. The piece will be a concertante-type piece for flute,
violin and cello soli.
January 2008
Hywel Davies has been appointed to the SDPA4 Identities Project, part of the
St David's 2 Development Public Art Commission, to make a new, permanent installed
work, to bcompleted in 2009. St David's2 is a massive new development
of retail space, public amenities, public spaces and residential units in
the centre of Cardiff. The SD2 Partnership comprises Land Securities,
Capitol Shopping Centres and Cardiff City Council.
April 2007
Joseph and Joseph by Oliver Emanuel
Directed by Colin Guthrie
11 April 2007 BBC Radio 4
Features The One Stone from Waldscenen for as the music for its
opening sequence.
March 2007
As part of its Piano moods series Boosey and Hawkes has published the following
works by Hywel Davies:
Piano Piece no 14 in Contemplations (ISMN M-060-11885-2)
Piano Piece no 16 in Fascinations (ISMN M-060-11903-3)
Piano Piece no 17 in Contemplations (ISMN M-060-11885-2)
Piano Piece no 19 in Animations (ISMN M-060-11765-7)
Piano Piece no 23 in Fascinations (ISMN M-060-11903-3)
Piano Piece no 29 in Gradations (ISMN M-060-11904-0)
Piano Piece no 31 in Gradations (ISMN M-060-11904-0)