Rhodri Davies & Áine O’Dwyer

Delighted to present the debut duo harp performance from Rhodri Davies (Wales) and Áine O’Dwyer (Ireland). Both are Counterflows alumni of some sort, having appeared in our past programmes several times. They bring a weight of experience and radicality to the harp, forming deep and critical investigations into its potential in and around improvisation, folk music, sound art and experimental composition. We can’t wait to see what they do together.

Rhodri Davies is immersed in the worlds of improvisation, musical experimentation, composition and contemporary classical performance. He plays harp, electric harp, live-electronics and builds wind, water, ice, dry ice and fire harp installations and has released six solo albums. His regular groups include: HEN OGLEDD, Cranc, Common Objects and a duo with John Butcher. He has worked with the following artists: David Sylvian, Jenny Hval, Derek Bailey, Sofia Jernberg, Lina Lapelyte, Pat Thomas, Simon H Fell and Will Gaines.

O’Dwyer is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is informed by both the conceptual concerns of sound art and traditional composition techniques, embracing the broader aesthetics of sound and its relationship to environment. She has created works for large-scale and intimate settings that allow for both planned and unplanned compositions to co-exist in live situ. Recent works include ‘Poems for Daedalus’ , a series of site-specific performances developed in Athens 2018; the book ‘Poems for play’, a collection of scores for a Jesuit monastery; ‘Accompaniment for Captives’ ,  a performance for two fishing boats; ‘Performance for Live Stream’ (Cafe OTO, 2021), an audio-visual work; ‘Song of Place’ (2022) a street opera staged in Bristol suburbia and ‘Sing in the Dark’ ( 2024 ) a live vocal performance for acousmonium.