Leigh Davies is an award winning Interactive Audiovisual Artist based in the UK. With his skills covering many fields such as art, musical composition and performance, animation and illustrative design his work has proven to be rich in creativity stretching broadly across many consumer platforms.

Leigh graduated from the 'University of Wales, Newport' in 2011 with a BA(Hons) degree in Creative Sound and Music and currently strives to continue his professional development into the world of interactive art, music and media. He is also studying for the C.M.P. MA degree as a next stage development towards his projects during 2011.

A few years ago, Leigh began his solo musical path with his first album 'The Mona Lisa Speaks'. Approaching the creation of this album with a new found outlook on the creativity of sound, he created 8 tracks for the album that follow the rules, themes and forms of the...

...composition of visual art; more specifically, painting.

In 2010 Leigh began his first professional large scale project; Rayne. Applying for project funding from Phones4U, he was successful in his application and work on the project began in October 2010. From here his many creative endeavours began to incorporate the many areas in which his skills lie.

Leigh is currently working with Incidental on the initial development, upkeep and further development of the audio based iPad application Feed which is now available on the app store. He is also currently developing several new interactive projects as well as a new compositional album which will be revealed over the next few months.

Here you can choose from a selection of categories that lead to articles and posts on the blog, or you can just head straight to the homepage of the blog and explore from there. Just click the big book on the right. Yes, that's right...the one titled 'blog'.

Feed is a music performance app for the iPad which allows the user to find, record and use sounds of their choice in order to create their own musical compositions. The app consists of a rich selection of audio functions and features allowing the user to explore sound creatively and performatively all from within the unique environment that the application has to offer.

Feed is an Incidental project which is co-commissioned by Head4Arts and the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol.

Rayne is an ongoing project by Leigh Davies which began in June of 2010. The purpose of the project was to invent a device that could create oil-on-water artwork using music as the paintbrush. Rayne was built to understand the melody from a musical performance and uses the information to dispense different coloured oil droplets depending on which notes are being played. As the melodies grow and evolve so do the paintings, with the oils ebbing and shifting across the surface of the water allowing for the creation of a beautiful visual representation of the very sounds that brought it to life.

Here you can look through several categories which catalogue Leigh's artwork which vary across different kinds of medium such as Watercolour, Oil on Canvas, Ink, Charcoal and Mixed Media.

You can also browse through project photo galleries where you can view photos related to any of Leigh’s other interactive or musical projects.

Watercolour Artwork Galleries:

The Stavemen Series (2008)

The Folk Collective (2011 - Present)

Miscellaneous

Project Photo Galleries:

Rayne's Development (2010-2011)

Feed (2011 - Present)

Miscellaneous

Oil Painting Galleries:

The Kooky Keys Series (2008 - Present)

Miscellaneous

Digital Artwork Gallery:

Album Artwork

Miscellaneous

Here you can discover and listen to a collection of Leigh Davies' musical works.

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The Mona Lisa Speaks (2010)

The first album from Leigh Davies. The Mona Lisa Speaks was designed around an emerging set of creative rules for Leigh as a practitioner. By sculping thoughts into sound using the laws, rules, themes and forms of visual art is how this collection of tracks came to be.

Albums and Works: