matthew shenton [there are no birds here]

A 2012 hedgerow report states Holbrook had 468 hedges running for a total a distance of 41km (25 miles) within the parish. They are nature's

A project to explore the sounds of my village had been bubbling away in the back of my mind for many years, but I had never discussed it

Work, windy weather and a very tickly cough made field recording a little tricky this week. However, I took inspiration from

I had been kicking around an idea for a community project examining how global external factors influence village soundscapes. I wanted...

In this blog series I have discussed in part one how relocating to Suffolk inspired me to investigate how other artists have responded...

Early on in my research I became obsessed with the poetry of Suffolk's rural language and started to weave this into my sound work. I...

Listening to the Landscape will be a series of blog posts about my land/sound scape work in the hope of constructing a coherent narrative

Two interesting articles started me thinking about remixes, their purpose and my approach to remixing the work of other artists.

Back in April 2023 I had completed a set of visuals by bleaching some Kodak slides, photographing the projections and arranging the...

I recently spent a wonderful week at the SPILL Think Tank in Ipswich as part of their artist residency scheme. Throughout the week I...

On Sunday May 7th, I took part in the 24 hour global broadcast of the dawn chorus as part of Reveil 10 and thought I would share my...

I was now in possession of maybe fifty slides that had had bleach applied to them to degrade the original image. The range of decomposition

I’m taking part in Soundtent's Reveil 10 Dawn Chorus broadcast on the 6th and 7th of May 2023. Over the first weekend in May, Reveil will...

As previously discussed, I find it fascinating to investigate and manipulate sounds that have been degraded. I love how unique and random th

I recently pulled together a mixtape for The Sampler showcasing some of my favourite artists from East Anglia. It was broadcast on...

Exploring the physical and material properties of the objects I use is very important to my work. I have always favoured analogue equipment

My 2022 release on the Courier label felt like a pivotal moment for me in terms of how it was devised and realised.

In 2019 I picked up a Noris slide projector that had caught my eye in an Ipswich charity shop. It was a thing of beauty - all swooping...

Landscape and the fragmentary and fallible nature of memory are the central motifs of my sound work. I draw immense inspiration from both...