/ For Rob Green (1964-2010)
“A bydded i’r arth a ryddhawyd drochi ei gorff yn llifoedd y gogledd rhewllyd a pheidio â dihoeni yn acwariwm dŵr distyll yr ardd academaidd.”
Kazimir Malevich, O Giwbiaeth a Dyfodolaeth i Swprematiaeth: Y Realaeth Arlunyddol Newydd (1915)
“And may the freed bear bathe his body amid the flows of the frozen north and not languish in the aquarium of distilled water in the academic garden.”
Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Manifesto (1916)creditsreleased February 24, 2021
Telyn benglin / Lap harp
Telyn benglin, troswr, meicroffon cyffwrdd (Trac 7), pedal trosyriant, pedal sain a dau chwyddseinydd.
Lap harp, transducer, contact microphone (track 7), overdrive, volume pedal and two amplifiers.
Recordiwyd ar Rhagfyr 11, 2011 yn Tŵr Morden, Newcastle upon Tyne / Recorded on 11th of December 2011 at Morden Tower, Newcastle upon Tyne.Cynhyrchydd gweithredol / Executive producer: Richard Dawson.Recordiwyd a chymysgwyd gan / Recorded and mixed by Phil Begg.Meistrolwyd gan / Mastered by Sam Grant.Dylunio gan / Design by Anna Peaker.Darlun gan / Drawing by Jean-Luc Guionnet.
Benthycwyd y teitlau o weithiau / Titles borrowed from the works of Thomas Bernhard, Jorge Luis Borges, Heather Fuller, Elizabeth Price, J H Prynne, Sarah Riggs, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Leslie Scalapino.
Rhyddhawyd Wound Response yn gyntaf ar finyl gan Alt Vinyl, av038 (2012).Wound Response was first released on LP with Alt Vinyl, av038 (2012).
Diolch i / Thank you to: Paul Kelly, Adam Parkinson, Connie Pickard, Sioned Puw Rowlands, Angharad Closs Stephens and Graham Thrower.Rhodri Davies self reissue of Wound Response originally released by Alt Vinyl in 2012. Reissued alongside the solo acoustic 'An Air swept Clean Of All Distance', Wound Response is loud, distorted and forms an attempt to work with rhythm and pitches in an open and fluid way.
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Wound Response was first released on LP with Alt Vinyl, av038 (2012) and formed a radical departure for Davies’s solo work. Inspired by the ‘Destruction in Art Symposium’ (1966). Davies used two main techniques: over-articulate the strings (what harpists are taught notto do) and attack the strings with a plectrum, forcing the tuning into new relationships until the strings eventually broke. This is the first time that this album will be released on CD.
“Wound Response is a raw recording scored for solo lap harp, overdrive, volume pedal and twin amplifiers. The fuzz is particularly cranky here, giving Rhodri’s obsessively repetitive harp soundings the kinda scorch of solo Masayuki Takayanagi.” - David Keenan, Volcanic Tongue 2012
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