Tim Hodgkinson

Hodgkinson is the kind of artist I instinctively root for. Co-founding Henry Cow with Fred Frith in 1968 and then spending decades on reeds, lap steel and keyboards in experimental music tells me he never once chased the easy commercial lane. A Trinity College education could have made him academic and stiff, but everything I read suggests the opposite: a restless curiosity that keeps reinventing the sound. I respect people who treat music as inquiry rather than product, and at 70-plus he still seems to be asking questions. That refusal to settle is, to me, the whole point of an avant-garde life.

Name (English)

Tim Hodgkinson

Name (Japanese)

ティム・ホジキンソン

Reading

てぃむ・ほじきんそん

Born

May 1, 1949 (age 77)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Ox

Origin

Salisbury, United Kingdom

Occupation

composer / clarinetist / guitarist / musician

University

Trinity College

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9B%E3%82%B8%E3%82%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3

Tags

• composer
• clarinetist
• guitarist

Last updated

2026-06-02

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