Music
Tim Hodgkinson’s music displays many personalities: from the serious and complex musical structures of Henry Cow to the angry post-punk crash of guitars in The Work; from the free-wheeling improvisation with Konk Pack to the contemporary classical music of his virtual orchestra on his solo recordings.
The instruments he plays are principally reeds (saxophone and clarinet) and keyboards, but with The Work, K-Space and Konk Pack he also played lap steel guitar/Hawaiian guitar and he sang. For his solo recordings he added viola, percussion, sampling, sequencing and MIDI.
Hodgkinson is a self-taught musician. He started formal piano and clarinet lessons, 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 sight-singing with Andras Ranki at Morley College, London in 1983. He also studied composition and writing orchestral music in 1985.
At heart, Tim Hodgkinson is an improviser, but he is also a composer, experimenting with the use of rock production techniques to create contemporary classical music.
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