Common Objects

Free Event

Common Objects:
John Butcher saxophones
Angharad Davies violin
Rhodri Davies pedal harp / electric harp
Lina Lapelytė violin
Lee Patterson amplified devices & processes

Common Objects
Play the Heat (2024) 40’ World Premiere

Rhodri Davies formed Common Objects in 2005 for a series of concerts at that year’s London Musicians Collective Festival. The group’s members represent some of the leading musicians from the experimental, sound art and improvised music fields. At first Common Objects held a fluid membership, though recent years have seen the line-up settle to six musicians – five of whom will appear at hcmf// this year, testing the inventiveness of this dynamic ensemble.

Common Objects have released three albums, beginning with Live in Morden Tower (Mikroton Recordings, 2013). The ensemble was commissioned by the AV Festival 2014, Newcastle Upon Tyne, to perform a new graphic score by Rhodri Davies called Cup and Ring, which appears on the Whitewashed with Lines CD (Another Timbre, 2015). Sonorous Matter was a 2016 project involving six UK museums. Each musician researched items from one of the collections to create an Object Score for the group to perform in situ. Skullmarks (Meena, 2018) was recorded inside the cavernous Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford.

Produced by hcmf// supported by Lithuanian Culture Institute and Music Information Centre Lithuania; also supported by Hinrichsen Foundation, Vaughan Williams Foundation and Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation