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| | | confront collectors series (uk) #ccs6 cd traw / rhodri davies “cwymp y dwr ar ganol dydd” compact disc - sychryd (6:29)
- sgwd yr eira (10:02)
- einion gam (5:35)
- mellte (5:30)
- y pannwr (11:07)
- llia (4:48)
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| traw & rhodri davies
cwymp y dwr ar ganol dydd
(confront, ccs6) (uk) (cd)
richard llewellyn, owen martell, simon proffitt: real-time sampling and processing
rhodri davies: harp, electronics, accelerometer
recorded in cardiff, wales, july 12, 2005
released in 2006
the cardiff-based trio of improvising laptoppers, traw, have only one previous recording to their name, congratulations to the young men of nelson, issued as part of fourier transform's white box cd-r series in a one-off edition of 50 copies. having thus satisfactorily introduced themselves to adventurous music lovers worldwide, they now follow up congratulations with an even more expansive project, cwymp y dwr ar ganol dydd, on which they are joined by their fellow countryman rhodri davies. a celebrated harpist perhaps best known for his work in free improvisation, davies also commissions and performs works by contemporary composers such as james saunders, catherine kontz, michael parsons and carole finer, as well as fluxus artists yasunao tone and mieko shiomi, and he’s an occasional member of anton lukoszevieze’s new music ensemble apartment house.
in making cwymp y dwr ar ganol dydd, each member of traw took away a selection of davies’ harp + electronics material (recorded by michael sansom at surrey university) and processed them according to his own lights. in july 2005, when the group reconvened in the company of davies, they improvised with this de- or re-personalised material to make new sound configurations. davies too was improvising, in this case with his own transmogrified self, and a live feed of his playing was also available to traw for further manipulation. it’s as though davies had stepped into a sonic hall of mirrors.
traw is a welsh word meaning pitch, or, in a more poetic sense, diapason, a wholeness, an encompassing. the cd title translates as the water falls at morning’s end, and all of the track titles are water-related, named after rivers or waterfalls around the pontneddfechan/ystradfellte area of south wales. but there’s more to it than that: "mellte", a river, also refers to lightning, and "einion gam", the name of a waterfall, means crooked anvil.
on cwymp y dwr ar ganol dydd, the music is subjected to elemental fire, forged, and doused with water to toughen it up. but forge also means ‘to fake’, and that too is appropriate: a gloriously fake rhodri davies is presented in this recording. |
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