The story
For the US recording engineer, use Hugh Davies (2).
British electronic music composer, improviser and instrument builder (23 April 1943, Exmouth, Devon — 1 January 2005, London). Hugh Davies was the first UK composer to perform "live electronic music," renowned for making unique DIY electroacoustic instruments (held in the Science Museum's collection in London). As a musicologist and archivist, he created one of the most comprehensive compendiums of early electronic music, a monumental International Electronic Music Catalog (Répertoire International Des Musiques Electroacoustiques) co-authored with at INA-GRM in France and published by The MIT Press in 1967. Davies worked at Electronic Music Workshop (EMW) at Goldsmiths College from 1968 to 1986, one of England's earliest academic electronic music studios. Since 1999 and till his death, he was a part-time researcher and lecturer at Middlesex University's Centre for Electronic Arts in London.
Davies studied music at Worcester College, Oxford, between 1961 and '64, with future members of Monty Python's Flying Circus as his classmates. Hugh was indoctrinated into electronic music by Daphne Oram of BBC Radiophonic Workshop, producing his first-ever electronic composition at Oram's Tower Folly studio in London. From 1964 to '66, Hugh Davies was an assistant to Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne, Germany, experiencing a new form of "live" electronica, made with real-time processing rather than pre-assembled on magnetic tape. Davies appeared with Stockhausen's ensemble in several concerts, including the '67 2117497 LP released by CBS (re-issued in 1995 by Stockhausen-Verlag as Vol 9 of the composer's complete edition).
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