matthew shenton [there are no birds here]

In October 2025, I had the pleasure of providing a soundscape to Mark Pozlep’s ‘Leviathan’

My new album horror vacui is out now...

'European Textures 2024' was a piece I created specially for the framework radio show, and was broadcast as part of episode #920

After ten months of sonic experimentation, artistic mentoring and sound collection it is time for a period of evaluation, reflection and for

Trying to grow crops in a dry climate will require irrigation of some kind, and with any farm machinery comes interesting sounds and rhythms

The weather report had promised a mainly sunny day, but with quite a robust breeze and before long I could hear some faint chirps and clicks

An important part of my Arts Council funded DYCP has been to meet with and learn from inspiring practitioners through mentoring and...

In an attempt to attract pollinators to visit our small front garden, we had left the lawn untouched by the mower for well over a year.

Rooks are a wonderful, if inescapable, part of my daily life. At the north end of the village there are at least four rookeries to be...

For the 20 minutes I stood on the path the drone obliterated nearly all other sounds in the vicinity. At around...

Tucked away at the edge of the churchyard (behind a formidable growth of nettles and centuries old gravestones) are a number of bee hives

I’m not sure I have ever really watched sheep up close for any length of time – it is amazing just how much grass they eat and how quickly.

This is the first of my village recordings to have taken place inside a building; that of All Saints Church. The church sits in the heart of

A welcome sound returned to the village on Wednesday 8th May, when I heard the familiar scream of the swift for the first time in 2024.

On Sunday 5th May I broadcast the Dawn Chorus from Holbrook Creek to a global audience as part of Reveil 11.

Over the last few weeks I have been preparing equipment and looking for a suitable location from which to broadcast the dawn chorus on Sunda

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...