| LC control no. | n 90650134 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Smyth, Gilli |
| Variant(s) | Smyth, Gillian |
| Birth date | 1933-06-01 |
| Death date | 2016-08-22 |
| Field of activity | Music English poetry |
| Affiliation | Gong (Musical group) Mother Gong (Musical group) |
| Profession or occupation | Musicians Poets |
| Found in | Magick brother [SR] p1977: labels (Gilli Smyth) Telegraph WWW site, viewed Sept. 1, 2016 (Gilli Smyth, born June 1 1933, died August 22 2016; co-founder, with her partner Daevid Allen, of Gong, an avant garde, anarchic musical ensemble which they launched in 1968-9; with Allen playing guitar and Smyth reciting poetry and contributing "space whispers" (described on her website as an "ethereal method of atonal singing, vocalising and 'musical landscaping'"); the couple formed Gong with Ziska Baum on vocals and Loren Standlee on flute; born Gillian Smyth; took three degrees at Kings College, London University; after leaving Gong in the mid-1970s, neither Allen nor Gilli Smyth would play with the band again until the 1990s, apart from a reunion in Paris in 1977; around the turn of the [1980s] decade Smyth and Allen separated; Gilli married the musician and producer Harry Williamson, with whom she had formed Mother Gong, and with whom she moved to Australia in 1982; as well as her music and poetry, Gilli Smyth appeared as a solo performer and lecturer at the Starwood Festival in America in 1992 and 1993, did voice-overs for commercials and audio cassettes, and gave lectures on voice projection) |
| Associated language | eng |
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