Morton Feldman John Cage Fluxus Cornelius Cardew Scratch Orchestra Allan Kaprow situationists psychogeography happenings conceptual art experimentation experimental music George Brecht la Monte Young event scores tasks Oscar Wilde William Shakespeare Howard Skempton Muse Morrissey Erik Satie Rachmaninov Dolly Parton Hot Chip Mozart Beethoven Depeche Mode Schubert Kate Bush Gavin Bryars John Dowland Shy Child Chopin Queen Alanis Morrissete Tracy Chapman Ruthie Henshall Grieg Puccini Bizet Savage Garden Wheatus Catatonia The Beautiful South Bach Disney Purcell Ellen Green Ella Fitzgerald Nina Simone Red Hot chilli Peppers Longview Regina Spektor Aqua Arvo Part Carl Orff Dvorak Elgar Liszt Handel Gershwin Scelsi Greenday Harrison Birtwistle Stravinsky Xenakis Laurence Crane Richard Ayres Josh Kaye Mica Levi Luciano Berio Nitin Sawhney Paganani Tchaikovsky Rossini Paul Newland Steve Reich Sufjan Stevens Verdi Copland Debussy Anthony and the Johnsons The Bangles Bartok Beatles Billy Holiday Blur Carpenters Celine Dion Cat Power Cindy Lauper Clara Rockmore Prokofiev The Cranberries Damian Rice Danny Elfman David Bowie Dean Martin Divine Comedy Duran Duran Eagles Varese Frank Zappa Captain Beefheart Glenn Gould Godowsky Martha Argerich Ligeti Hariprasad Chaurasia Berlioz Jason Robert Brown John Field Johnny Cash Stockhausen Kate Nash Don Mclean Lonestar Luigi Nono M People Madonna Mahalia Jackson Manic Street Preachers Maria Callas Ravel Meatloaf Messiaen Schumann Michael Nyman The Mighty Boosh Nirvana Pet Shop Boys Simon Holt Judith Weir John White Richard Baker Richard Barrett Tansy Davies Michael Finnissy Joe Cutler Gwyn Pritchard Luciano Berio Harrison Birtwistle Michael Zev Gordon Jonathan Harvey Piers Hellawell Philip Cashian Ed Bennett Bryn Harrison Mark Bowden Stephen Montague Rolf Hind Terry Riley Frederick Rzewski Richard Teitelbaum Christian Wolff David Toop Alban Berg Henry Cowell Marcel Duchamp Mondrian Jackson Pollock Robert Rauschenberg Varese Stockhausen Webern George Crumb Pavel Szymanski Benedict Mason Luke Stoneham Giacinto Scelsi Gabriel Prokofiev Mary Dullea Sarah Leonard Jane Manning Charles Ives David Behrman Earle Brown Toshi Ichiyanagi Terry Jennings Takehisa Kosugi Joseph Beuys Robert Filliou Ray Johnson Ay-O Genpei Akasegawa Eric Andersen Robert Bozzi Albert M Fine Ken Friedman Lee Heflin Hi Red Center Dick Higgins Toshi Ichiyanagi Joe Jones Bengt af Klintberg Milan Knizak Alison Knowles Richard Maxfield Larry Miller Yoko Ono Tomas Schmit Mieko Shiomi Ben Vautier Robert Watts Emmett Williams
Alvin Lucier George Maciunas Richard Maxfield Gordon Mumma Nam June Paik Tom Phillips Morgan Hayes Andrew Toovey Percy Grainger Ferruccio Busoni Louis Andriessen Conlon Nancarrow Christopher Fox Matthew Shlomowitz Brian Ferneyhough Joanna Bailie Sam Hayden Yannis Kyriakides Larry Goves Colin Matthews Mark-Anthony Turnage Michael Parsons Robert Ashley Oliver Knussen Donnacha Dennehy Ed Bennett William Attwood John Croft Michael Wolters Evelyn Ficarra Graham Fitkin Dai Fujikura Jo Thomas Markus Trunk Ian Vine Paul Whitty Raymond Yiu Gabriel Jackson Alison Kay Philip Neil Martin Tim Parkinson John Lely CoMA Smith Quartet Jonathan Powell Stephen Gutman Joby Burgess CHROMA Sarah Nicolls Richard Craig Claire Edwards Decibel Noszferatu Luis Bunuel Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Rowyda Amin Jon Clay Samuel Beckett Jan Svankmejer Barefootim Stephen Sondheim Marquis De Sade
"I have nothing to say and I am saying it" (John Cage)
"I am selling nothing, but it is the most expensive nothing in the world" (Morton Feldman)
"Why do we waste our time trying to understand music?"
Sounds Like
Homage a George Brecht
4 videos after composition 1960 2
Piano pieces
random videos and me playing my pieces with prepared piano, views from inside the piano and on the keys.
six_events, performance/documentation by Matthew Lee Knowles
little selection of videos
If I can ever answer this question I will stop composing.
if I add you on myspace it's because I've listened to your music and/or read your profile and felt a connection, theres no randomness to it! please talk to me and ask questions, I love questions!
If you see a piece you like and want to know more about it, have a copy, play it, send me a message and I will sort it for you. I am more than happy for anyone to play my music, so please do make contact! I have hundreds of pieces, this is just a selection.
Violin and piano (2006)
untitled piano piece I 10/07/2007
untitled piano piece II 10/07/2007
solo piano (2006)
Contrasts, part two
Contrasts, part one
Try-angles
Trio (2006)
For John Cage, 31st December 2006
to he with many faces who possesses me, solo piano (2006)
The island, for piano and speaking poet
The art of suicide, for a solo instrument
sonorities, solo piano
six events for piano
Post CN, 8b 23.54 TP, extract, solo piano
Piano piece for sydney, solo piano.
page of numbers
lye-nes
ink splatter, free instrumentation
RLOS, free instrumentation
for vikki, free instrumentation (Dec. 2006)
for two pianos,
For paul and michael, free instrumentation
Dreams
Cubistic IV, free instrumentation
Cubistic III, free instrumentation
Cubistic II, free instrumentation
Cubistic I, free instrumentation
114(6), solo piano, 17th April 2007
Do You See? for violin and cello, which can be played as solos
Untitled 2008/I
Untitled 2008/II
-Post PH(hong)- Creates purpose, carries about art, neither abstract, only plane minutes then recently before into music suggested for saxophone and piano, piano part shown below in 4 parts, to be played in any order
(A SEEmEd hEArt:ShowEd of mirror) (thE ShoCk wAS:of firSt mEdiA)
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Joshua Kaye/Matthew Lee Knowles
[NB, this piece uses extremely strong language, violent and sexual imagery throughout - if you are easily offended please do not watch.]
Ella Jarman Pinto/Matthew Lee Knowles
"I always thought I'd like his sculpture in my garden"
-first performed by ARCO at the sonic arts network, Brighton 5th July 2008
Matthew Lee Knowles (b.1985) graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, leaving in 2008 with a first and the Frank Prindl Composition Prize. He has written six theatre scores, seven Happenings, about 50 pieces of art, 70 poems, 600 questions, around 400 musical compositions and almost 2000 events. As a pianist Matthew has performed Stockhausen Goldstaub for the BBC, Kondo's Metaphonesis and many pieces by Joshua Kaye. His poetry and art has been published and exhibited in the UK, America and Japan. Matthew has recently worked at the National Theatre, The Space, Southwark Cathedral, Bardens Boudoir, Southwark Playhouse, The Slade School, The Bridewell Theatre, Kings Place, GSMD, TCM, Cafe Oto and had his music used on a Channel 4 documentary. So far this year, a new piece was premiered by Nora Volkova Ensemble in Berlin, Warehouse Ensemble performed a new two-minute opera and ARCO premiered a piece live on Resonance FM. Recent highlights include performing for the BMIC music mart, improvising at the piano to over 1000 people in India, performing as a musician in a dance festival in Spain and collaborating with Neil Luck on a spoken word happening held in a cemetery. Matthew has just formed a new spokenwordmusic trio KLK with Neil Luck and Josh kaye and is currently looking for locations and festivals to try out new material.
Pieces/Performances etc:
*KLK
-Cosmic Megabrain, Beyond existence, set of spoken word pieces
*KLK
-Trakai, Lithuania, with Andy Ingamells
*KLK
-NO:ID gallery, set of spoken word pieces
*Cut and Splice Festival
-Sonic Arts Network/BBC Three
-Piano piece for video by Brandon Labelle, Wiltons Music Hall
*Diana of the Ephesians
-Premiere at S ‘n’ M, GSMD, by Grace Nyandoro
*performance as pianist
-premiered “Painting by Numbers” for solo piano, by Ella Jarman-Pinto
*performance as pianist
-premiered “Mrs Dalloway Walks” for sampler, electronics and actress, by Josh kaye
“A Place at the Table” [full theatre score] 2009
-Camden People’s Theatre, dir. Paul Burgess/Daedalus Theatre.
“[]somanydaysyoupassedmeby[]seethetearsstandin'inmyeyes[]youdidn'tstoptomakemefeelbetter[]byleavin'meacardoraletter[]” [baritone, soprano, cello, percussion, piano duo, clarinet] 2009
-2 minute opera, commissioned/premiered by Warehouse Ensemble
-part of the Rosemary Branch Festival
“(A SEEmEd hEArt:ShowEd of mirror) (thE ShoCk wAS:of firSt mEdiA) (or iS hE:yEStErdAy thE dEliBErAtEly)” [clarinet, cello] 2009
-premiered by ARCO (Heather Roche, Richard Thomas) at Kings Place
“Salve Regina” [S,S,A,A] 2009
“Stoneware With A Modern Twist” (I + II) [solo cello] 2009
-performed as part of SNIFF, by Richard Thomas
“Son, I'm O.D.” (I + II) [solo violin] 2009
*Eleven short piano pieces for a PhD performance project
“…get out as early as you can…” [solo piano] 2009
“In Memory of Kevin Mitchell” [solo piano] 2009
“All But Two and Six” [solo soprano] 2009
“This Be The Verse” [solo soprano] 2009
“Collections” [solo piano] 2009
“Mozart - Sonata in C” [solo piano] 2009
*premiere of Excursions I -V by Markus Wenninger
-settings of “Word Extensions” by Matthew Lee Knowles
“For Naomi” [solo clarinet] 2009
-Premiered at The Social as part of Society of New Music Series By Naomi Pitts (with Matthew Lee Knowles and Josh Kaye
*Spoken-Word-Music performance by KLK (An Ode to a Manifesto for Sound, This is Fluxus, Numbers/Word Game, The Story of a Magnificent Banquet, The History of the Offensive Eye 2008/09)
-Southwark Playhouse, Secrets, Impulsive Random Platform goes live!
-With Neil Luck and Josh Kaye
*Performer of several piano pieces by Josh Kaye 2009
-Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Society of New Music Series.
*Performer in “Rumpus Room” by Neil Luck 2009
-Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Society of New Music Series.
“This Is The Shit That Killed Elvis” [cello, guitar, double bass] 2009
-written for and premiered by ARCO Collective, on Resonance FM
-second performance at The Social as part of Society of New Music Series
“The Gut Girls” [full theatre score] 2009
-The Space, dir. Alex Crampton
“Kotrab Aleb Art-secror-of-orec-noc” [Horn Quartet] 2009
-commissioned by Emma Cotton
"51/43" [solo piano] 2009
"Walking Piece for Cellist" [solo cello] 2009
"39, 000" [solo guitar] 2009
"I'm through defending Cage" [open instr.] 2009
"Two thousand eight hundred and thirty four offences" [solo unaccompanied voice] 2009
"This piece will stop moving twice" [melody instr.] 2009
"See where it might take you" [piano] 2009
"Culture Shock" [voice/melody instr.] 2009
"A Constellation Cold With Neglect" [solo piano] 2009
"Edkovsky" [open instr.] 2009
-dedicated to Ed Nesbit [piano solo] 2009
"After Reinecke" [piano solo] 2009
"After Mendelssohn" [piano solo] 2009
"After Debussy" [piano solo] 2009
"After Liszt" [piano solo] 2009
"After Schumann" [piano solo] 2009
"After Beethoven" [piano solo] 2009
*performance of poetry written by Matthew Lee Knowles, Bardens Boudoir (2009)
-The Not Night/thisisnotabar - with Neil Luck and Josh Kaye
*Music used in a channel 4 short film. dir. Debrah Anzalone (2009)
*composer for Simon Daw, at the National Theatre Workshop (2008)
-creation of "Glassy Fun" for glass harmonica
"Let the exertion begin,
Had enough of this dodgy finger,
The smell of paraffin cancelled my senses,
My soul now has a steady linger" - (2009) [graphic score/notated]
-piano + open instrumentation
-commissioned by Markus Wenninger
-premiered at the Filmmuseum Potsdam by Nora Volkova Ensemble
*composer in residence, with Claudia Molitor (2009)
- "The Voice and Nothing More"
"Study of R.K." (2009) for silent reader, moving actor and reader
-premiered at "The Voice and Nothing More"
-curated by Neil Luck and Sam Belinfante
"For Richard Baker" [solo piano/theatre] (2009)
-Premiered Guildhall School of Music and Drama, by Yshani Perinpanayagam, Matthew Lee Knowles, Neil Luck, Josh Kaye and Richard Thomas
“Food for the ears, Feeling at peace with myself, Can’t hold back the tears, My biscuits are back on the shelf” Guitar and Violin (2008)
-commissioned by "Iceni" (Georgina Whitehead
& Sólrún Gunnarsdóttir)
-Premiered at Southwark Cathedral
"Diana of the Ephesians" solo concerto for soprano (2008)
-commissioned by Grace Nyandoro
"The Art of Suicide" for clarinet and speaker
-performed in Brixton, as part of "I love S 'n' M"
*Performer in Simon Katan's 'Conceptual Dinner' (2008)
-East London for 5 people, algorithmic dinner party
“600 Events for Actors and Audience” [Installation/happening] 2008
-Collaboration with composer Josh Kaye
-Premiered Guildhall School of Music and Drama
“Gershwin Transcriptions” (I - V) [solo piano] 2008
“For Richard Glover” [solo piano] 2008
“After Marc Chan” [solo piano] 2008
“For Martin Creed” [spoken word] 2008
-Performer with poet Jon Clay at poetry launch (cluster) 2008
-Piano accompaniment to live reading of “Here” by Jon Clay.
-Performer in Neil Luck’s “Submission: rear naked choke”
-Premiered at the Windmill Pub, Brixton 2008
“Conversation Starters” (installation/intervention/performance art)
-Premiered at the Windmill Pub, Brixton 2008
“Solo for Alto Saxophone” 2004
-Premiered in QEH, 2004
“A Tribute to Erik Satie and Morton Feldman” [piano, cello, clarinet] 2006
-Premiered at GSMD New Music Festival, 2006 (repeated 2007)
“Space Dikhotomia” [orch.] 2005
-Premiered at the Sounds New Festival in Canterbury, 2005. (repeated at GSMD)
“Instances” [3 celli, flute, harpsichord] 2005
-Premiered at Hull University 2006, young composer award and cash prize.
“A little more than Nothing but not yet Something” [oboe, clarinet, piano] 2007
-Premiered at the London Wind Festival 2007
“Post PH (Hong) creates purpose carries about art, neither abstract, only plane minutes then recently into music suggested” [piano, alto saxophone] 2008
-premiered Greenwich 2008 (repeated in Holborn)
“she fixing with her eye . . . a distant bell . . . as she hastened towards it” [piano, alto saxophone, desk bells] 2008
Commissioned by Haruka Shibuya and Elen Le Foll.
“Dawning: Blue, black, red” [soprano, piano, cello] 2006
-Words by Jon Clay. Premiered Wigmore Hall and GSMD 2006 (repeated 2008)
“A Subject Enters” [2 singers, performance/installation art] 2007
-Premiered at the James Turrel exhibition at the Louise T Blouin Institute 2007
“Who are you and what are you doing here?” [choir] 2007
-Premiered by the BBC singers
“Inherit the Wind” [full theatre score] 2007
-GSMD 2007, directed by Wyn Jones
“The Winter’s Tale” [full theatre score] 2007
-GSMD 2007, directed by Wyn Jones
“August” [SATB arrangements of: Ar Hyd Y Nos, Bugeilo‘r Gwenith Gwyn, Beth Yw‘r Haf I Mi, Calon Lan, Lisa Lan] 2008
-GSMD/Bridewell Theatre 2008, directed by Wyn Jones
“outrageously fulfilling & confused, hello to bizarre gay shit and whoosh! goes an illogical imagination” [concerto for soprano, with viola, piano, ensemble] 2007
-Workshopped at GSMD by Laurence Crane 2007
“Nothing Implied” [string quartet] 2006
-Premiered GSMD New Music Festival 2006 (repeated 2007)
“Activity I” [for any number of people] 2007
-Premiered at the Green Man Pub 2007 (S ‘n’ M)
“Activity II” [for any number of people] 2007
-Premiered in the GSMD student basement 2007 (S ‘n’ M)
“a great tiger could buiLd it and It never falters. Perhaps it is gory, but I rEstrict iT, not unlike a tree.” [ensemble] 2007
-premiered GSMD New Music Festival 2007
“Thank you Mr. C - a happening” [28 person happening] 2007
-Premiered GSMD New Music Festival 2007
“six_events” [week long durational global happening] 2008
-Performed in 26 countries 21st - 27th January 2008
*six_events [exhibition: photography, film, sound, live performance] 2008
-exhibition held at GSMD, Lecture Recital Room, one day duration
“[19/80] [8/40] [11/48] [14/72] [11/45] [22/77] [9/44]” [percussion quartet] 2007
-Premiered with dancer Paul Andre Fortier/Sankorfa, Bishopsgate Hall 2007
“I am you” [Giorgio Sadotti gallery performance] 2007
-Premiered at Limoncello Gallery 2007
“The nothing and the nothingness” [large scale happening] 2007/8
-Premiered at the Louise T Blouin Institute, April 2008
“Hyde Park Happening” [happening] 2008
-Premiered, London Festival of Architecture, Hyde Park 2008
“For the Birds” [spoken word happening] 2008
-Premiered at Bunhill Fields Cemetery, 2008. Collaboration with Neil Luck
“Nothing, Something, Everything, Anything” [flute, viola, pack of cards] 2007
-commissioned by William Lane
*selection of compositions performed in a large scale fluxus event in Hong Kong
-Curated by William Lane, pieces performed 2008
*performance of Jo Kondo’s “Metaphonesis” solo piano
-GSMD New Music Festival 2007
*Talk on Experimental Music/my music
-Yehudi Menuhin School 2008
“Squiggle” [orchestra] 2006
-workshopped GSMD, Sian Edwards
“Lecture on Chopin” [piano, speaker, 2 page turners] 2008
-Premiered GSMD New Music Festival 2008
“Rearrangement of a Beethoven Sonatina” [piano] 2008
-Premiered GSMD New Music Festival 2008
“This is Fluxus” [speaker, piano] 2008
-Premiered GSMD New Music Festival 2008
“Ten text pieces for Josh Kaye” [speaker, pre-recorded text]
-Premiered S ’n’ M concert 2008
“Recently my desire in sky left art to another young forgotten poem, but never in someone only recently suggested” [piano, alto saxophone, violin] 2007/8
-commissioned by Ensemble Contrast
“Do you see?” [violin, cello (as duo) or solo violin/solo cello]
-premiered as part of the ‘microscore project’, Auckland (Johnny Chang)
*Art works published on Venereal Kittens 2007
*Selection of graphic scores exhibited at “Notations” 2007
-The Slade School, Sam Belinfante/Neil Luck
*Performances with Catalina Niculescu and Elisabeth Rimmington 2007
-The Slade School, “Notations” Sam Belinfante/Neil Luck
*Selection of graphic scores exhibited in Brighton 2008
-Phoenix Gallery, off line 2008
*Performer in “Stabat Mater” [dance piece] 2008
-the LCDS (repeated in Bilboa, Spain in 2008) Jesus Rubio, Mike Picknett
“Something Will Cloud Her Glittering Footsteps” [8 singers] 2008
-Workshopped by James Weeks, Exaudi GSMD 2008.
“The Story of a Magnificent Banquet” [speaker and harpsichord/piano] 2008
-Premiered at Café oto, with Neil Luck.
“I always thought I’d like his sculpture in my garden” 2008
-Premiered by ARCO collective, Brighton, Sonic Arts Network.
“An active left hand greets the smell of a sewn up, piranha-occupied cunt” 2008
-Premiered by ARCO collective, Boat-Ting.
“Palestrina” [piano, keyboard, electronics] 2008
-Premiered at GSMD New Music Festival 2008
*Performer in Stockhausen’s “Goldstaub” (Gold Dust) 2008
-BBC/Sonic Arts Network - Wiltons Music Hall (4 day durational piece) broadcast on BBC radio 3.
“Writing in Praise of the Solitary Act” [keys, vocals, percussion] 2008
-Performed by Micachu and the Shapes, Old Blue Last 2008.
“Solo for Person” 2008
-Premiered at GSMD, as part of BMIC New Music Mart
“820 actions for a person” 2008
-dedicated to Alywnne Pritchard
“The picture was taken the moment the firing squad's bullets struck the victim” [keys, vocals, percussion] 2008
-Written for Micachu and the Shapes.
*performer for Elisabeth S. Clarks “Book Concerto”
-Slade School 2008 (repeated Room Gallery 2008).
*Performer for Ligeti’s “Poeme Symphonique”
-opening of Kings Place, Kings Cross 2008.
*Performer For Michael Parson’s “Walk”
-Liverpool Street Station, 2008.
*assistant to composer Adrian Lee at the Shakespeare Globe theatre 2007
-working on “The Merchant of Venice”.
*Performer in “Living Room Music” by John Cage
-Tate Modern, John Cage Weekend, 2005.
*Performer with Catalina Niculescu “The Rite of Spring” 2007/8
-Installation/piano, “Notations” at the Slade School, 2007. Concrete and Glass Festival, 2008.
*Contributor to event at the Nabokov Arts Club
-Scale Project (Simon Daw/Paul Burgess)
*Performer with Halal Kebab Hut 2008
-Brighton, Sonic Arts Network, with Simon Katan.
*Performer at Goldsmiths New Music Concert 2008
*Performer at 40th Birthday Party (Alywnne Pritchard) [performance art]
-Reading “This is Fluxus”
*Performer for Elisabeth Rimmington’s Final Degree show 2008
-Camberwell College of Art
*Performer for Elisabeth Rimmington 2008
-Piano, arrangement of Chopin Raindrop Prelude
*Composer for short film, Debbie Anzalone 2008
-Channel 4, 2009
*Performer with Mikhail Karikis, 2008
-at Café Oto, Dalston
"Mallarme" [pencil on manuscript] 2009
"Feeling Blue" [12 pieces: blue paint on graph paper] 2008
“Purple Circle” [purple circle of wax] 2008
“Takura and Miyu” [4 cartoons, coloured paper] 2008
“Black on White” [wax on card] 2008
“Green on White” [wax on card] 2008
“£p” [mixed media] 2008
“Murder is an Irreversible Process” [mixed media] 2008
“The Four Seasons” [wax, card, clothing] 2008
“Square Numbers” [mixed media] 2008
“My Love” [mixed media] 2008
“Fields of Blue” [mixed media] 2008
“For Riz” [mixed media] 2008
“For Josh” [mixed media] 2008
“For Paul” [wax, red tape, card] 2008
“Two Sketches for Goldstaub” [pencil on manuscript] 2008
“You have to put yourself in your work” [human blood on paper] 2008
“Death Surrounds the part of us without care” [pen on brown paper]
“Dreams” [pencil] 2007
“lye-nes” [pencil] 2007
“Page of Numbers” [pen] 2007
“six_events black on wax” [wax, card] 2007
“Try-angles” [pencil] 2007
“25 pieces exploring nothingness” [mixed media, cling film, fumage, wax] 2008
“Bands I + II” 2008
“Waiting for Godot I -XI” 2008
“Wrapped Cosmetics” [beauty products, toiletries etc wrapped in cling film] 2008
“untitled” [blue biro on paper] 2008
“Reserved Sign” [x10, yellow paper on card] 2008
“For Paul Newland” [mixed media] 2008
“self-portrait” [scanner photograph] 2008
“Spanish Beer Jug” [melted plastic/wax on paper] 2008
“For we possess nothing and nothing possesses us” [pen on envelope] 2008
“A Night of Sketching” [pencil on paper] 2007
“2 green wax sketches” 2008
“31 magazine collages” [31x A4] 2005
“BABY” [mixed media] 2008
“Bloodstriprubstripblack” [Human blood on paper]
Poetry:
“Mr Odd Vagina” 2009
“Voices” 2009
“SEVEN” 2009
“Justine” 2009
“Depression” 2009
“The Need to be Someone Else” 2009
“But What Is Magic?” 2009
“Think Less” 2009
“Drastic Things” 2009
“The Contrary of a Civilised Nation is a Creative one” 2009
"Homage a Sam Taylor-Wood" 2009
"The Daily Death Bell Rings" 2009
"Vanity Fair/Nit Air" 2009
"32 lines" 2009
"106 reasons to be happy" 2009
"Dear Daniel" 2009
"After Fleur Adcock" 2009
"Not After Philip Larkin" 2009
"After Philip Larkin" 2009
"old forms will be supplanted by new and improved forms" 2009
"Verlaine" 2009
"After Kenneth Goldsmith" 2009
"Shakespeare Sandwich, etc" 2009
"A History of the Offensive Eye" homage a Georges Batailles 2009
"J’ai rêvé de toi…" 2009
"For Martin Creed" 2008
"An Ode to a Manifesto for Sound" 2008
"Untitled on Neil Luck" 2008
“Diana of the Ephesians” 2008
“Danger” 2008
“Smile” 2008
“Naughty Trenches” 2008
“Word extensions” [I - V] 2006
“Beautiful Joke & Partial Blindness” 2008
“The Story of a Magnificent Banquet” 2008
“Writings after ‘120 Days of Sodom’” 2008
“162 Questions in 6 Parts”
“Sixteen Mesostics for John Cage” 2008
“Two Mesostics for Claudia Molitor” 2008
“Seven Mesostics for Neil Luck” 2008
“Nine Mesostics for Richard Baker” 2008
“Nine Mesostics for Paul Newland” 2008
“Lecture on Chopin” 2008
“This is Fluxus” 2008
“72 words for Palestrina” 2008
“Four Page Text Piece” 2008
“Nothing Falling” 2008
“I weep like a child for the past” 2008
“Poem, music, art 00.27 10th January 2008”
Member of:
ARCO collective
Free Improvisation Ensemble (FIE)
S ‘n’ M (society of new music)
KLK (Knowles Luck Kaye)
Collaborators: past, present, future:
Neil Luck, Joshua Kaye, Elisabeth S. Clark, Paul Burgess, Jon Clay, Kit Downes, Nico Bentley, Billie Macunias, Jane Wang, Heather Roche, Richard Thomas, Simon Katan, Mica Levi, Lucy Hutchinson, Ezra Williams, Simon Daw, Claudia Molitor, Alice De Ville, Allison Rosser, Micachu and the Shapes, Mikhail Karikis, Grace Nyandoro, Brian Inglis, Giorgio Sadotti, Shama Rahman, Elisabeth Rimmington, Yshani Perinpanayagam, Luc Fierens, Conall Gleeson, Therese Bann, Min Angel, Catherine Kontz, Ed Nesbit, Rupert Cross, Ella Jarman-Pinto, Lily Barson, Adam Delacour, Debbie Sargent, Dominic Lash, Graham Dunning, Elisabeth Potter, Junior Williams, Wyn Jones, David Wallace, Sam Belinfante, Tim Parkinson, John Lely, Alex Crampton, Sarah Moule, Laonicos Psimikakis, Debbie Anzalone, Johnny Chang, Emma Cotton, Markus Wenninger, Keith Buchholz, Marc Chan, William Lane, Catalina Niculescu, Michael Picknett, Jenny Glithero, Vikki Hoodless … To Be Continued…
Present/Future/Ongoing Projects/Commissions:
*Continued performances with KLK
-new spokenwordmusic trio with Neil Luck and Josh Kaye
*Composition competitions
*New happening July 2009
-to be held in a London Library
*Tenor and Piano Commission, Ezra Williams
*Writings on Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarme and Baudelaire.
*Piece for three stylophones…
*The Only Girl in The World, 2009
-opera collaboration with Alex Clifton, Paul Burgess and Glyn Maxwell
*Around This House - Happening in the Library - July 16th 2009
*Events and happenings
*“A Catatonic Romance” [opera]
-librettist: Lucy Hutchinson - still in progress
*ongoing collection of events (approx. 2000 completed to date)
*“For Piano” Series, approx. 20 pieces so far
*composition for several bass clarinets
*setting the poem "Here" by Jon Clay as a song cycle for piano and tenor for Ezra Williams
*repetition of "600 events for actors and audience" with Josh Kaye
4 page text piece
From "Lecture on Chopin"
a selection of recent creations:
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I don't know anymore.
I never thought I did know anything.
I realise the need to ask questions.
I realise even more that there are answers.
However, these are irrelevant.
However, these are relevant
The answer to the your question is nothing.
The nothing is your answer.
Is that enough?
Why is it not enough?
It isn't anything.
Stop asking.
Never stop asking.
Is it enough?
Why is it not enough?
Will we ever stop asking questions?
Should we stop asking questions?
If the answer is nothing how do we know we have asked a question?
At what point is a question relevant?
At what point is a question a question?
What point do I ask it?
Why is it not enough?
What am I questioning?
Why am I questioning?
I am not questioning.
Therefore I never stop asking questions.
The answer to everything is nothing.
There is nothing.
It is everything.
Should I stop now?
Is it neccessary to continue?
I have established there is nothing so why haven't I stopped?
Did I just ask a question?
How do you know it was a question?
Do you know the answer?
The answer is nothing?
Was that a question?
Why is it not enough?
I should stop.
I should stop?
When do we start to listen?
If nothing is everything.
Then everything is nothing.
Then they are the same.
They defeat each other by being there.
Therefore there is nothing.
Therefore there is everything.
Would you like to be in my head?
Why is not enough anymore?
It is enough.
It is enough?
It is enough!
Enough!
What is enough?
When is it enough?
If the subject is so pointless I should continue.
Should I continue?
What made that a question?
You have no control.
You have more control than me.
I still don't know.
I don't want to know.
I want to know more than anything.
What do I want to know?
Do I know what I want to know?
When should I realise I do not want to know anymore?
When should I realise I cannot know anymore?
How should this happen?
Should I continue?
Below are a number of pieces of mine, made whilst thinking about the concept of nothing
I hope all is well and good and I just wanted to let you know I've just put up a new track called ECHO so I thought you might want to have a listen. :o) It's just the instrumental version I did not long ago but I do have a full section of vocal to arrange into this track so I'll keep you posted on the outcome! :o)
I appreciate your time and support and any comments posted.
Dear friends, I am playing a free gig at the beauteous Union Chapel, Islington this Saturday. The sunlight will be streaming through its vaulted windows as Blank Canvas and Arctic Circle present this gig during the blessed daylight hours of 12-2. And yea shall its hallowed interior be filled with all manner of scraping, wailing and gnashing of teeth. Let us pray. And then let us go to the pub.
Let your love flow outward through the universe, To its height, its depth, its broad extent, A limitless love, without hatred or enmity. Then as you stand or walk, Sit or lie down, As long as you are awake, Strive for this with a one-pointed mind; Your life will bring heaven to earth.
Hi Mat, nice to hear back from you, interesting about the hats tax! who'd'v thought! that tax must have been a forerunner of VAT!...do you think that tax was capped at a certain level?...boom boom!:)...
Thanks for your questions, here goes! Currently i've been working on an uptempo track at the moment for a well known Garage/House act in London, and i've just been asked to do a mix of a fairly well known Manchester Hip-Hop MC's back catalogue but I can't say who till it's finalised. Most of the work currently on my page is from a few years back due to chronic hard drive/&backup failure losing me a few years work and represents only a small proportion of my work/genres I've covered in my work.
Styles of music I work in and appreciate span many genres from many eras, one minute i will be working on a Hip-Hop or Breaks influenced track, the next an experimental industrial electronic piece, the next I'll be writing a blues or folk/Pink Floyd/Indie style of song on my guitar.
Overall, and without wishing to sound pretentious, motivation to write wise I think the concept of my works is definitely an important thing, when it happens I HAVE to write from my soul to express and release my emotions rather than "want" to write on an intellectual level, i usually have a particular mood or emotion or feeling or mental/meditative state I want to convey in my pieces but am particularly interested in creating each sound and part i use individually to suit what i feel is right for the piece and creating movement and textures,sometimes with real grit and dirt, to convey that particular emotion at that particular time,if possible in a timeless way, sometimes subtle sometimes extreme, sort of like an artist mixing the colours on a sonic paint pallette and then painting the whole journey with new previously unseen colours and interplays of sound as he flies over a landscape of his beautiful yet tragic life, or a composer making new types of instruments fo
....thanks ya!!
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