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SUSAN MATTHEWS

A UK based avant-garde experimental composer, known for her intense, ambitious, hypnotic harmonies and industrial noise creations.

Her music...

...tangles the brutal with the fragile in a forbidding texture of sound that penetrates on so many levels at once, it's like being touched by a ghost... Dan Schaffer (Doghouse, The Scribbler, Dogwitch)

'On Fire Island' video created by Mark Ingram music by Susan.
Created for F.O.N. Festival October 2009

OCTOBER 2009
Susan will be in Residency at the F.O.N. FESTIVAL in Barrow-In-Furness, Cumbria, UK. She will be creating new music at The Canteen Media and Arts Centre (Michaelson Road) from 19th-24th October. The Festival also includes new work and performances by Faust, Richard Youngs, Pram, Haco, Mobile Radio, Good Noise Bad Noise and others. For more information please visit www.fonfestival.org

GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS
Susan is currently working on a new radio mix of her work to be broadcast on Friday 23rd October, during the Garden Of Earthly Delights Radio show.

NEW WORK ON NTNS
Susan is currently composing new music to be debuted on Not The Normal Shit Radio on Saturday 24th October

COMING 2009/10:

- Two solo projects: 'The Whispering Void' (pianos, strings, calm but edgy ambience) and 'Tales From The Forbidden Garden' (guitars, drums, visceral songs and rhythms)

- Guest vocals on forthcoming solo album by Tony Wakeford. Released later this year by The Eastern Front.

- 'Motion.Silence.Echo' featuring a number of artists (Tony Wakeford, Rainier Lericolais, Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo, Clutter, Alistair Crosbie, Nick Grey, M, 1000 Aeroplanes Crashing In The Night, Damon Shulman, George Rogers) who've been invited to remix tracks from Susan's back catalogue. Released later this year by Tursa.

- Soundtrack for and acting role in forthcoming independent movie Grasp

RECENT RELEASES

SUMMER'S JOY REKINDLED

A collaboration between Susan and Alistair Crosbie released Monday 11th May by Siren Wire Recordings.

TRACK LISTING:
Summer's Faith In Summer's End
Summer Half-Remembered
Summer's Cloudcover

This is a Limited Edition of 40 copies and comes in a beautiful handmade sleeve:

Please Note: This release is SOLD OUT

PRAGUE SOUNDTRACK - LIMITED EDITION CDR RELEASE

Susan's recordings for the aborted Prague art film soundtrack are now available on limited edition cdr. Susan edited the recordings in early December 2008 into a 20+ minute soundscape incorporating piano, voice, recorder, percussion and music box elements. The cdr is limited to 30 copies packaged in hand made card sleeves in an assortment of colours.

Please note: This CDR release is SOLD OUT

However it is available to download from Earth Monkey Productions (earthmp.com)

When The Ghosts Are Within These Walls

A collaboration between Susan Matthews and Rainier Lericolais 10 track CDR available to buy direct from Siren Wire Recordings (www.sirenwire.com)

- Check my 'top friends' for Matthews/Lericolais a Myspace page dedicated to Susan's ongoing collaboration with Rainier Lericolais

AXIS VEIN

Susan's fifth solo album Axis Vein, released 16th July 2008. Featuring ten tracks designed to carry you...

'...through various stages of terrifying emotional vivisection and inquietude'
Dan Schaffer 2008

An eclectic mix of styles encompassing noise, rhythmic, ambient and classical avant-garde genres

Read Dan Schaffer's full review here: www.sirenwire.com

Axis Vein is available from www.sirenwire.com

SLOW CORROSION

A limited edition 4 Track EP by Clutter vs. Susan Matthews available from Earth Monkey Productions

Preview the ep Here

Purchase from Earth Monkey Here

Splinters, video directed by Yokna Patofa

On A Theme Of Falling, video created by Shaun Blezard

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For more information please visit Siren Wire Recordings
More music at Soundclick
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