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Henry Dagg is a sound artist known for his avant-garde and whimsical approach to music. Incorporating unconventional and self-made instruments, he blends musical creativity with engineering ingenuity. Dagg’s compositions range from playful and humorous to deeply atmospheric, reflecting his experimental ethos.
Henry was originally classically trained on the cello, and became a self-taught player of piano, keyboards and bass guitar while arranging pop and rock material. While working in the sound engineering department of the BBC, he composed music for BBC Radio and Television programmes, using tape editing and studio manipulation techniques to create music from natural sounds.​
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​In 1985, an arrangement of Counterpoint No. 9 from The Art of Fugue (JS Bach) for radio, led to his adopting the musical saw as an additional instrument. In 1987, he participated in the International Musical Saw Festival in California. He won first place in the traditional category. In 1988, he went on to win first prize in both Classical and Pop/Jazz categories, and a gold saw denoting the title of ‘Master Sawyer’.
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In 1994, he relocated to a former industrial building in Faversham, Kent, where his work is divided between performing, composing and the development of new musical instruments and sound sculptures.


​Dagg's handmade instruments are often as visually captivating as they are sonically intriguing. His exploring unusual tonalities and textures, emphasises sound design as much as melody or rhythm.
His performances often have a comedic and theatrical flair, such as his reworking of classic tunes on quirky instruments or his use of unexpected sound sources, making his music as much a spectacle as a listening experience.
Dagg’s music sometimes involves collaboration with other artists and projects, pushing the boundaries of traditional performance through his experimental ethos. His work has gained recognition not only in music circles but also in broader artistic and engineering communities.
These albums offer a selection of popular and light classical pieces transcribed for musical saw and a number of Henry Dagg’s own compositions.