Matt Spokes - Programming, Glockenspiel, Field Recordings
Influences
Chris Watson, Bits of Feldman, Fennesz, Raster Noton stuff, Jeck
Sounds Like
...our spirits will not be broken. ..we will
continue the struggle until full independence is obtained...
...and this annihilation is taken by us to be gratitude for the blood
of our fathers, shed in the defense of Russian lands, for the
valor of our daughters--heroines of the USSR, younger sisters,
who today are jeered for their honour.
Heroines of the U.S.S.R is the solo project of Matthew Spokes. He uses computer based technology and field recordings to create a chimera of experimental ambience and natural sounds. Utilising a slap dash combo of Pure Data, home made programming and faulty home made instruments to explore the world of rain, ice, dark cities, imagined animals and so on.
Heroines has recently finished work on a new album, provisionally titled 'A Map of Lost Causes'. It follows an explorer around a mysterious continent, that also features in the book 'The Last Night Tree'. Three of the tracks can be heard on this very page. The album may be released later this year, if a label is interested.
The tracklisting is as follows
1. Abandoned Shack (with) Fragments of Homunculus Skeleton Found There
2. Julia Loses Her Way
3. Piano in the Sea of Old Smiths Cove
4. Dance of the Cryptids
5. Concealed Treasure in the Museum of Telephone Directories
6. Mellow Dreams on Fruitless Evenings
7. Somewhere Around Dawn an Ancient Bird Call is Heard
8. The Future of the Native Populations of 'Lost Causes'
9. A Map of Wind and Shadow
Heroines most recent release is 'Spring Snow' on Archaic Horizon Records. For more more information, and to download, please visit them here
Heroines is a member of The School of Unthink
Older material is still available as a limited pressing from the artist.
free released for your look+listening as DVD+CD / .iso files / mov+mp3. DOWNLOAD -> www.myspace.com/ryutakwbt
DVD/mov is including two "table-top guitar" solo, two duo performance,
some studies and some more. 104.min Stereo. duo with Celebrante in Una Casa Buenos Aires,
Ryusaku "Rutang" Ikezawa in YahiroHIGHTI, Tokyo.
CD/mp3 is including a recording of acoustic resophonic guitar solo. It is a contemporary local blues that has sewwt tone. 21.min Monoral.
Catch the auditory hallucinations and modulations caused by chain of movement and interference without no computer in this works. it is magical and beautiful. hope to enjoy, sincerely.
"CNMRG" - research group (St. Petersburg, Russia) "Theremin - Center" for electroacoustic music (Moscow, Russia) "TMA" - Trans Media Akademie Hellerau (Dresden, Germany)
MediaLab workshops and performances by:
Frieder Weiss (Germany) Yuri Didevich (Russia) Daniel Ploeger (Germany) Dmitry Dubov (Russia) Thomas Dumke (Germany) Dmitry Letohovskiy (Russia) Mathias Harting (Germany) Patrick K.-H. (Russia) Micah Silver (Usa), Dmitry Subochev (Russia) Andrei Smirnov (Russia)
this works are actually recorded in the nice tourist town Dresden where Jan lived for 4 years and on several places in germany/thuringia and denmark/sjaeland +++ Jan recorded all with an old 4-track, one old minidisc-recorder, two old guitars and some old pedals and a brand new notebook+++Enrico Wuttke aka Flim helped him out with some Fieldrecordings and beautiful Piano Pieces+++ new tracks are growing every day on his minidisc-walkman he records woods, highways/autobahnen, shopping centers, farms, children rooms, camping sites, rehearsel rooms and roofgardens ...etc and himself and his friends and familys+++ since spring 2007 he lives on a farm in thuringia, germany+++to be continued +++
I have uploaded "diametric" from the fabulous online-release "DataTransfer2", which I have created for David Velez with several of his sounds and some of my field-recordings of a journey to the "Documenta Kassel" and some german museums.
enjoy, and please listen to all the other fanatastic contributions of "DataTransfer2"
cheers
Sascha
Support comes from Hull’s ‘The fifth columnists’ + part 3 of ‘east riding’ by Jez riley French – this time in the shape of a trio for field recordings & strings….
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