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Guitar practice:

I am interested in the acoustic presence of the guitar, placing objects in relation to the instrument and setting the assembled elements in motion. I’m interested in finding new forms which might arise out of these acoustic scenarios and which draw into play the social spaces in which the sounds happen.

Composition:

In composition I focus on developing ways of framing musical events, emptying composition of musical material and examining form in improvisation; form understood variously as memory, gesture, habit, territory, repetition and encounter.

Biog:

Neil Davidson (1977) is a guitar player from the Scottish Borders living in Glasgow. He improvises with a wide variety of people and has performed in many countries. He has a PhD from glasgow University in composition and taught a course on contemporary music performance practice there. He runs the record label Iorram Records with Una MacGlone and Raymond MacDonald and curates the net label Never Come Ashore. Since 2006 he has run of a series of concerts of improvised and experimental music for Streetlevel Photoworks Gallery. A member of Teatro do Silencio based in Lisbon, he has also collaborated with Norwegian poet Arild Vange and writes occasionally for art publications. Over twenty recordings of his work have been published on labels in Europe and North America.