the secret and the not so secret sounds of everyday life
Influences
Luigi Rossolo, Max Eastley, David Toop, Delia Derbyshire, BBC Radiophonic Workshop , John Cage, Rolf Julius, Ryoji Ikeda, Brian Eno, Kaffe Matthews, Akio Suzuki, Peter Cusack, Janet Cardiff, Phill Harding, Anne Karhu, Bill Fontana, Carsten Nicolai and many many more...
Check out my photos..
In the pics section you will find photographs of my art work, these have been created by resonating different mediums with a controlled sound wave. The various frequencies behave in unique ways to move the pigment around the surface, leaving a mark of its journey. The C13 installation, combined this method with a multi-sensory experience. Each box (soundcast) represents a certain note that plays out into the space, all six boxes combine to make a chord C13th. As you move around the room the chord will slightly change depending which of the six boxes you are closest too. This chord then chimes every minute and fades to silence allowing the natural ambience of the room to take over.
Here is a small selection of my recordings past and present.
A Silent Collage (edit, original 14:37), Spring 2006
This is a track composed from three different locations, layered on top of each other. The first sound you hear is of some ducks and geese at the Serpentine Lake in Hyde park London. The next site has been recorded in my mother's garden in Farnham, Surrey the house is situated in a valley next to Alice Holt forest, the sound of the birds makes a rich tapestry of calls. Then the last sound, is of some large windchimes near a waterfall, which was recorded in the Japanese gardens in Newquay, Cornwall. Outside Waiting Room (08:15),Spring 2006
Recorded at Farnham train station in March 2006, i missed my train to london and had to wait 10mins for the next one, this is what happened while i waited.
Swanpool Lake (08:15), May 2007
This track is part of a series of site specific recordings that im making for a live arts festival in falmouth. Past/Present Hear -
more to come soon...
CDR's available to buy
( P a s t / P r e s e n t H e a r ) - F a l m o u t h 2 0 0 7
A series of field recordings, made to be be listened to at the location they were captured in. Each CDR comes with a map and a booklet detailing where each recording should be heard, as well as its own unique photograph mounted on the cover. There 12 tracks in total. This project was commisioned for the Live Art Falmouth festival 2007. Sold Out
Machinefabriek and Matt Davies
Onkruid/Sanctuary
A Room Forever (limited edition of 300),
12" vinyl mastered at Dubplates, Berlin.
A split vinyl project curated by Joshua Zucker (Roadside Picnic), side A music by Machinefabriek and side B a field recording by Matt Davies £25.00 (plus postage & packing)
many thanks for the comment, very nice to see that you spent some time listening to some stuff. Will be putting up more soon of recent things. best wishes ben
i think beth wouldn't be coming as she will be working at peapod's.. and my appearance totally depends on whether anyone comes to the gigs we have this week... three! stretching myself a little!
anni has cancelled her tour! so we lost her! jarv/tiff and dan are doing support for sunburned now, as rosemarie band! very excited, the poster is amazing. i want to come to Venn but we have three gigs next week, and it depends if we lose money or not. are you going to any of it? could i/we perhaps crash a night at yours? no worries if not, but i'd love to make it out if the money is there
Hey alrite there Matt! how's it goin mate? Don't know when i'm next in Bristol, but it won't be too far away.. sorry havn't made it to your events at spike island yet, let me know if theres any gigs/exhibitions coming up tho & i'll come up if i can. Do you remember The White Rabbit venue from Plymouth Expo? Ulrich Schnauss is playin there this thurs, i'm photographing one of the support bands. Exeter Vibraphonic music fest is on soon too, come down for some of it if ye can? ;) cheers ol' china
Well at some point, in fact i seem to remember some talk of a festival or something in Bristol we were going to play . Beware. We will all be staying on your floor probably. How are you anyway Matt? Ben
i'll need 2 ATLEAST but 3 is sure to best.Unfortunately i can't come on friday, just got some work for this week in the office below yours. Just another mind bogging job. besides on Friday there's Cen's exhib opening and another at a squat.xx
Sir, sorry to disturb you, i was wondering whether or not you knew of the bristol club Mr Wolf, whereabouts and so forth, well hope all is, shall you be attending LouisesLondonBonanza?, maybe see you there....
Aye Matty, i'll try make it to yer Spike Island gig, (wow nice one man)! hope yer doing grand up there in Brizzle, all's fine n' jangly down ere in devon :-) hope see ye soon me ol' flannel. Cheers! x
Thanks for the request Matt, nice to meet you! :) Really interesting work, visually and sonically. You might like to check out some of my field recordings at http://listenhear.podbean.com. Keep in touch.
Big thanks for the add! And what an excellent set of field recordings. I applaud your approach and influences! I would be over the moon if you'd come and play a selection of your recordings at Cafe Concrete. Would you be up for that? Matt.
Yes! I got them just the other day and I wanted to sent you a message today about it. Hadn't expected to get them that early so it was quite a surprise. Had a listen to them all, though I have to listen to your random stuff cd again because I don't seem to remember a lot of it. The mini cd Flow is very nice, was a good listen, it made me think of a plane somehow. The futurist cd is just awesome, Corale is on there too, which is nice, but my favorite track is the third track, can't remember the name, but it has this very familiar melody. It's very inspiring to hear what people in the 1920/30's could come up with, it's just fantastic and I want to thank you a lot for sending it over.
I have a split tape between one of my projects Emotional Manwhore and some experimental band coming up and I'm getting some artwork copies and shit too, so I will send you that if you'd like I will also try and get a hold of an earlier split tape I did featuring a 23 minute ambient/noise soundscape of mines. Get back to me if you'd like that!
