Timothy George Hodgkinson (born 1 May 1949) is an English

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composer and performer, principally on reeds, lap steel guitar, and keyboards. He first became known as one of the core members of the British

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group

Henry Cow Henry Cow were an English experimental rock group, founded at the University of Cambridge in 1968 by multi-instrumentalists Fred Frith and Tim Hodgkinson. Henry Cow's personnel fluctuated over their decade together, but drummer Chris Cutler, b ...

, which he formed with

Fred Frith Jeremy Webster "Fred" Frith (born 17 February 1949) is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser. Probably best known for his guitar work, Frith first came to attention as a founding member of the English avant-rock group Henry ...

in 1968. After the demise of Henry Cow, he participated in numerous bands and projects, eventually concentrating on composing contemporary music and performing as an improviser.

Biography

Hodgkinson was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire in England on 1 May 1949, and was educated at

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and

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. He graduated in

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from

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in 1971, but chose to pursue a musical career instead. His interest in

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, however, remained and he drew on it later during a series of study trips to

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Henry Cow

While still at university, Hodgkinson and fellow student Fred Frith formed the seminal

group Henry Cow in 1968. Hodgkinson remained with Henry Cow as one of the band's core members until their demise in 1978 and composed a number of their musical pieces, most notably, " Living in the Heart of the Beast" (recorded on their 1975 album, '' In Praise of Learning''), and " Erk Gah" (never formally recorded, but live versions appearing in ''

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''). Henry Cow was the foundation of Hodgkinson's musical education, and it was an opportunity for him to work closely with other instrumentalists and develop new musical landscapes. After Henry Cow split, Hodgkinson and fellow band member

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compiled ''The Henry Cow Book'', a collection of documents and information about the band, published in 1981. In November 1973, Hodgkinson (and other members of Henry Cow) participated in a live-in-the-studio performance of

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's ''

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'' for the BBC. It is available on Oldfield's '' Elements'' DVD.

Other projects

In 1980 Hodgkinson formed The Work, a

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band with guitarist-composer Bill Gilonis, bassist Mick Hobbs and drummer Rick Wilson. At the same time Hodgkinson and Gilonis formed the

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, Woof Records. Over the next few years, The Work toured Europe. After performing at a

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festival in

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with vocalist Catherine Jauniaux in 1982, the band and Jauniaux recorded '' Slow Crimes'' (1982) for the Woof label. Later that year, with a slightly altered line-up of Hodgkinson, Gilonis,

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and Chris Cutler, they performed in Japan. A concert in

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in June 1982 was recorded with a

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halfway down the hall and was later cleaned up and released on an LP '' Live in Japan'' (1982). After the Japanese tour, The Work disbanded but reformed again in 1989 with the original line-up to record two industrial/

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albums, ''Rubber Cage'' (1989) and ''See'' (1992). In February 1987 Hodgkinson toured with South African band Kalahari Surfers, playing at the "Rote Lieder DDR" Festival of Political Songs. In 1990 Hodgkinson and

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, a Scottish percussionist and improviser, who had been performing together since 1978 (and used to be called Shams), toured

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and the heart of USSR (Moscow,

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) as a duo under the banner " Friendly British Invasion™: In Search for the Soviet Sham(an)s" – probably the longest tour produced at the time independently from major Soviet concert officials (by distant Far-Eastern member of the Soviet Jazz Federation and due to the latter's assistance). Later on, they made many other trips to Russia and study trips to Siberia particularly to make contact with local musicians and

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specialists. It was during these times that they met

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musician Gendos Chamzyryn from

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and as a trio, they toured Altay villages in the summer of 1998. Chamzyryn played a variety of traditional Tuvan instruments and used the deep-vocal Kargiraa style of overtone-singing. The success of this "

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" project resulted in the formation of K-Space, a band comprising Hodgkinson, Hyder and Chamzyryn. K-Space's name came from Kozyrev-Space, a space/time warp named after Russian astrophysicist Nicolai Kozyrev using a device called Kozyrev's Mirrors. Their music was "sham beat", which incorporated elements of

culture and

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. From 1999 they began touring Asia and Europe and have released four CDs since 2002. A free improvisation band Hodgkinson is deeply involved with is Konk Pack. Formed at the Szuenetjel Festival in

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in 1997 with

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from

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on synthesizer, Roger Turner from London on percussion and Hodgkinson on reeds and

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, the trio performs a blend of

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and

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. In 1999 they released a CD of live recordings ''The Big Deep'' and made further CDs in 2001, 2005, 2010 and 2013. In 2005 Konk Pack toured the United Kingdom with

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replacing Thomas Lehn. In 2007 they toured The Netherlands, Belgium and Germany with the original line-up. As an improviser, Hodgkinson performed with many musicians over the years, including Lol Coxhill, Fred Frith, Chris Cutler,

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Lindsay Cooper Lindsay Cooper (3 March 1951 – 18 September 2013) was an English bassoon and oboe player and composer. Best known for her work with the band Henry Cow, she was also a member of Comus, National Health, News from Babel and David Thomas and th ...

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, Catherine Jauniaux and Charles Hayward. In December 2006, Cutler, Frith and Hodgkinson performed together at The Stone in New York City, their first concert performance since Henry Cow's demise in 1978. From 1983 to 1985 Hodgkinson managed the Cold Storage Recording Studios in

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, London, producing records for Fred Frith's Skeleton Crew,

Peter Blegvad Peter Blegvad (born August 14, 1951) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, writer, and cartoonist. He was a founding member of German/English avant-pop band Slapp Happy, which later merged briefly with Henry Cow, and has released many sol ...

and others. He has written a book on the

of music and contributed to periodicals such as ''Contemporary Music Review'', ''Musicworks'', ''Musica/Realta'', and ''Resonance'' on music and technology,

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, improvisation and other topics. In 2016 his book ''Music and the Myth of Wholeness – Toward a New Aesthetic Paradigm'' was published by

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. Hodgkinson appeared in Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel's 1990 documentary film on Fred Frith, '' Step Across the Border'', rehearsing with Frith at Hodgkinson's home in

, London in December 1988. Hodgkinson's first solo album was ''Splutter'' in 1986, consisting of improvisations on alto and baritone saxophones and clarinet, sometimes accompanied by electronics, sometimes multi-tracked. He followed it up with ''KLARNT'' in 2008, an album of eleven solo clarinet improvisations.

Composition

Beginning in the early 1990s Hodgkinson again applied himself to composition, initially returning to the approach developed in his Henry Cow period. In 1994 he released '' Each in Our Own Thoughts'', a collection of pieces including his first string quartet, and a piece written for Henry Cow in 1976 (" Hold to the Zero Burn, Imagine"), which was performed at the time (as "Erk Gah") but never recorded in the studio. When finally recorded in 1993 he brought in three other members of the original band: Chris Cutler, Lindsay Cooper and

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. A further piece "Numinous Pools For Mental Orchestra" was realised entirely with

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-instruments. However his work as an improviser by now made him far more aware of the limitations of his current way of writing. An encounter with

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and the Romanian Spectralist school provided a turning point, after which he began to find new ways of developing musical structures out of the behaviours of sounds and unstable acoustic systems. This became evident with the release of the CD '' Pragma'' in 1998, on which the pieces are realised on a computer using a mix of live instruments and samples. In 2000 Hodgkinson made ''Sang'', a collection of new compositions. The first and third pieces were performed by Hodgkinson alone, playing viola, piano, alto saxophone, percussion and MIDI instruments; the second piece ''GUSHe'', which he has often performed live, is for clarinet with electronic accompaniment, while the last, ''MÀ'' was performed by Federica Santoro (singing) with a montage made from recordings of other pieces of Hodgkinson's (a rehearsal with Banda Municipal de Barcelona and fragments of his second String Quartet). Hodgkinson then released ''Sketch of Now'' on the Mode label in 2006. It comprises three compositions for the Romanian Hyperion Ensemble, of which Hodgkinson conducted two and played on one (conducted by

); two compositions performed by Hodgkinson: one for bass clarinet and tape, one for computer-modified cello and electric guitar; one piece for two clarinets, one doubling on bass, and piano, performed by Isabelle Duthoit, Jacques Di Donato and Pascale Berthelot. The track, "Fragor" appears in the 2010 film '' Shutter Island'', but was not featured on the soundtrack CD. This was followed up in 2014 with ''Onsets'', a second CD for the Mode label. Five of the six pieces are performed by the Hyperion Ensemble, and one piece by the New York based ensemble Ne(x)tworks. Hodgkinson conducts all the pieces and also plays bass clarinet on “Ulaaraar.” In 2015, he released ''CUTS'' on the Freeform Association label, which groups together three compositions having a mathematical approach in their structure. “Hard without I” is performed by the composer on solo bass clarinet. “On Earth” is Hodgkinson's second piece to be performed by Ne(x)tworks, this time with

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. “Ananké” is performed by the Hyperion Ensemble. The latter two pieces are conducted by the composer.

Music

Hodgkinson's music displays many personalities: from the serious and complex musical structures of Henry Cow to the angry

crash of guitars in The Work; from free-wheeling improvisations with Konk Pack to the

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of his recordings for the Mode label. The instruments he plays are principally

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s (clarinet, bass clarinet, and alto saxophone), but with Henry Cow he mostly played keyboards, and with The Work, K-Space and Konk Pack he played and plays

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. He also sang in The Work. For his solo recordings he added viola, percussion, sampling,

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and

. Hodgkinson is a self-taught musician. He started formal piano and clarinet lessons as a child, but quickly abandoned them. He then began writing down music, initially using a keyboard but soon switched to writing the sounds in his head directly onto paper. To assist with this process, he studied

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with Andras Ranki at

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, London in 1983.

Works

*''Repulsion'' (1997) – for clarinet, electric guitar, trombone, percussion. c 10' *''SHHH'' (1996–97) – for taped voices. c 7' *''For Looking Inside'' (1997) – for 3 prepared violas. c 10'30" *''Interferogram'' (1997) – for large ensemble. c 10' *''Mala; Elated'' (1997) – for clarinet, harpsichord, organ, metal plates, cymbals. c 8' *''Black Death and Errors in Construction'' (1998) – for bass clarinet, prepared piano, electric guitar, 2 cellos, 2 violas, percussion, tape. c 12' *''The Road to Erzin'' (1999) – for viola, piano, alto saxophone, percussion (2 players) & live electronic sound-processing. c 15' *''Crackle of Forests'' (1999) – for many instruments. c 23' *''Gushe'' (1999) – solo clarinet and tape. c 13' *''Ma'' (1999) – montage. c 20' *''Apophasis'' (2001) – concrète sound-art piece with David Connearn. c 22' *''Fighting/Breathing'' (2001) – for bass clarinet and taped percussion. c 7'40" *''String Quartet 3'' (2000–1) *''Vers Kongsu'' (2002) – for clarinet and percussion. c 15' *''Fragor'' (2003) – computer-assisted music for arco electric guitar and cello. c 7' *''Vers Kongsu II'' (2003) – revised version of Vers Kongsu for clarinet and ensemble. *''De Yoknapatawpha'' (2003–04) – 2 clarinets (one doubling bass) + piano. c 12' *''Watching into a Hard Stone'' (2004) – tape music using sounds of clarinet, ringmodulator, prepared piano, pitch shifter. c 9' *''Aici Schiteaza Pe Acumul'' (2004) – for tape and instrumental ensemble (3 vln/vla, 2 celli, 2 cb, oboe, 2 flt, clar, bass-clar, bassoon, sax, trom, 2 percuss, piano). c 9' *''Further into Hard Stone'' (2004) – arranged for flute (+ pic), oboe, 2 clars, bassoon, fr horn, saxes, strings, piano, percussion. c 9' *''Piece for Harp and Cello'' (2004–05) – c 9' *''Nameless Tower'' (2005) – for Vln, 2 alto, cello, flute, clar, bass clar, trombone, piano, 2 percussion. *''Thrown'' (2005) – for bass clarinet doubling clarinet, harp, piano, double bass, percussion and live sound treatment and projection. c 9' *''Ulaaraar'' (2005) – for bass clarinet, string ensemble (min 2 altos, 2 cellos) and small gong. c 10' *''Untitled for solo Bb clarinet'' (2005–06) *''Carillon for Amplified Harpsichord and four pre-recorded Electric Guitars'' (2006) – for harpsichord and tape. c 4'45" *''Hearken'' (2006) – for bass clarinet and tape. c 12' *''Against Time'' (2006) – for 14 woodwind & brass instruments, percussion, keyboard. c 19'45" *''Amhas / Niritti'' (2006) – for tape and ensemble. c 14' *''Nomos-Yozu'' (2007) – for ensemble. c 13' Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival Commission. *''the hum of destruction whirrs through the national cackle of love and produce'' (2007) – for (bass) flute, acoustic guitar, electronics. c 17' *''Tmesis'' (2007) – for tape, solo cello, 2 clarinets, 2 percussion, horn, trombone. c 10'30" *''Chasma'' (2008) – for Ensemble: flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, horn, trombone doubling cb. trom, piano, harp, 2 vlns, 2 vlas, 2 cellos, 2 basses. c23' *''ZUD'' (2008) – graphic score for elec guitar, piano, cello, bass, percussion. c 9'20" *''Ich Horig'' (2008) – graphic score for tape, clarinet, piano, cello, bass, percussion. c 7' *''Ici-bas'' (2009) – for flute, 2 clarinets, bassoon, 2 trombones, piano, 3 violins, 3 altos, 2 cellos, 2 basses. For Spectrum XXI 2009. c 14" *''Attaot'' (2009) – for flute, clarinet, bassoon, 2 trombones, 2 percussion, violin, alto, cello, 2 basses & tape. For Spectrum XXI 2009. 8'30" *''Jo-Ha-Qui'' (2010) – for string quartet, harp, trombone, synthesiser and bowed glass. c 16" *''The Glow and Zigzag'' (2011) – for French horn solo. London Sinfonietta commission. c 6" *''Tree Leaf Talk'' (2011) – for voice, violin, cello, trombone, harp, piano, live and pre-recorded electronic sound. Commissioned by Ne(X)tworks Ensemble, NYC. c 35" *''Hail and Flummox'' (2011) – flute, clarinet, horn, violin, cello. London Sinfonietta commission. 7" *''Ananké'' (2011) – flute, clarinet, violin, 2 cellos, double bass, piano, percussion, electric guitar, no-input mixer, and pre-recorded computer-modulated sound. For Spectrum XXI 2011. c 16" *''Landscape Theory of Mind'' (2012) – violin solo. Commissioned by Cornelius Dufallo.c 7" *''Ricochet'' (2013) – for strings, piano, electric guitar & tape. For Spectrum XXI 2013.

Discography

Bands and projects

;With

* ''

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'' (1973, LP,

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, UK) * '' Unrest'' (1974, LP, Virgin, UK) * ''

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'' (1976, 2xLP,

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, UK) * ''

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'' (1979, LP, Broadcast, UK) * '' The Virgin Years – Souvenir Box'' (1991, 3xCD,

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, US) * ''

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'' (2006, 7xCD,

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, UK) * '' Stockholm & Göteborg'' (2008, CD, Recommended Records, UK) * ''

'' (2009, 9xCD+DVD, Recommended Records, UK) * '' The Henry Cow Box Redux: The Complete Henry Cow'' (2019, 17xCD+DVD, Recommended, UK) ;With

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*'' Desperate Straights'' (1975, LP, Virgin Records, UK) *'' In Praise of Learning'' (1975, LP, Virgin Records, UK) ;With

Art Bears Art Bears were an England, English avant-rock Musical ensemble, group formed during the disassembly of Henry Cow in 1978 by three of its members, Chris Cutler (percussion, texts), Fred Frith (guitar, bass guitar, violin, keyboards) and Dagmar Kr ...

*'' Hopes and Fears'' (1978, LP, Recommended Records, UK) ;With The Work *'' Slow Crimes'' (1982, LP, Woof Records, UK) *'' Live in Japan'' (1982, LP, Recommended Records, Japan) *''The Worst of Everywhere'' (1983, cassette, Woof Records, UK) *''Rubber Cage'' (1989, LP, Woof Records, UK) *''See'' (1992, CD, Woof Records, UK) *''The 4th World'' (2010, CD, Ad Hoc Records, US) ;With Catherine Jauniaux *''Fluvial'' (1983, LP, Woof Records, UK) ;With

, Bill Gilonis and

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*'' The Last Nightingale'' (1984, LP, Recommended Records, UK) ;With The Momes *''Spiralling'' (1989, Woof Records) ;With

God In monotheistic belief systems, God is usually viewed as the supreme being, creator, and principal object of faith. In polytheistic belief systems, a god is "a spirit or being believed to have created, or for controlling some part of the un ...

*''Loco'' (1991, CD, Pathological Records, UK) *'' Possession'' (1992, CD, Caroline Records, UK) *''Consumed'' (1993, CD, Sentrax Records, UK) *'' The Anatomy of Addiction'' (1994, CD, Big Cat, UK) ;With

*'' Live Improvisations'' (1992, CD, Woof Records, UK) ;With Valentina Ponomareva &

*''The Goose'' (1992, CD, Megaphone Records US, Woof Records UK) ;With Konk Pack *''Big Deep'' (1999, CD,

Grob Grob may refer to: * Grob Aircraft, a German aircraft manufacturer * Grob fragmentation, an elimination reaction between an electrofuge and nucleofuge on an aliphatic chain * GrOb or Grazhdanskaya Oborona, a Russian punk band * Grob Gob Glob Grod, ...

, Germany) *''Warp Out'' (2001, CD, Grob, Germany) *''Off Leash'' (2005, CD, Grob, Germany) *''The Black Hills'' (2010, CD, Grob, Germany) *''Doing the Splash'' (2013, CD, Megaphone, US) ;With Black Paintings (Nikolai Galen / Hodgkinson /

) *''Screams and Silence'' (2008, CD, Voice of Shade,

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...

) ;With K-Space *''Bear Bones'' (2002, CD, Slam Records, UK) *''Going Up'' (2004, CD, Ad Hoc, US) *''

Infinity Infinity is something which is boundless, endless, or larger than any natural number. It is denoted by \infty, called the infinity symbol. From the time of the Ancient Greek mathematics, ancient Greeks, the Infinity (philosophy), philosophic ...

'' (2008, CD-ROM, Ad Hoc, US) *''Black Sky'' (2013, CD, Setola di Maiale Records, Italy) ;With The Orckestra *"Unreleased Orckestra Extract" (3" CD single, 2006, Recommended, UK) ;With RAZ3 (Lu Edmonds / Ken Hyder / Hodgkinson) *''RAZ3'' (2008, CD, ??, UK) ;With Yumi Hara *''Groove Study'' (2023, CD, UK)

Solo

*''Splutter'' (1985, LP, Woof Records, UK) *'' Each in Our Own Thoughts'' (1994, CD, Woof Records, UK) *'' Pragma'' (1998, CD, Recommended Records, UK) *''Sang'' (2000, CD, Recommended Records, UK) *''Sketch of Now'' (2006, CD, Mode, US) *''Klarnt'' (2010, CD Recommended Records, UK) *''Onsets'' (2014, CD, Mode, US) *''Cuts'' (2015, CD, Freeform Association, Poland) *''Under the Void'' (2019, CD, Recommended Records, UK)

Bibliography

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References

External links

Tim Hodgkinson homepage
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at Calyx: The Canterbury Website.

Ken Hyder's homepage
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''An essay by Tim Hodgkinson''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Hodgkinson, Tim 1949 births Living people People educated at Winchester College 20th-century English composers 21st-century English composers English rock saxophonists English male saxophonists English keyboardists English electronic musicians English industrial musicians English experimental musicians English male composers Free improvisation Canterbury scene God (British band) members Henry Cow members Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge English post-punk musicians Musicians from Salisbury 21st-century English saxophonists The Orckestra members