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New piece 'European Textures 2024' featured on framework radio
'European Textures 2024' was a piece I created specially for the framework radio show, and was broadcast as part of episode #920
Matthew Shenton
Mar 4


Listening to the Landscape 22: Field Irrigation
Trying to grow crops in a dry climate will require irrigation of some kind, and with any farm machinery comes interesting sounds and rhythms
Matthew Shenton
Oct 2, 2024
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Listening to the Landscape 17 - thunderous rooks
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...
Matthew Shenton
Jul 18, 2024
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Listening to the Landscape 13 - munching sheep
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.
Matthew Shenton
Jun 10, 2024
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Listening to the Landscape 4 - the project
I had been kicking around an idea for a community project examining how global external factors influence village soundscapes. I wanted...
Matthew Shenton
Dec 31, 2023
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Listening to the Landscape 3 - the rural soundscape
In this blog series I have discussed in part one how relocating to Suffolk inspired me to investigate how other artists have responded...
Matthew Shenton
Nov 21, 2023
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SPILL Residency 2023
I recently spent a wonderful week at the SPILL Think Tank in Ipswich as part of their artist residency scheme. Throughout the week I...
Matthew Shenton
Jun 27, 2023
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Reveil 10 Dawn Chorus- My Broadcast Experience
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...
Matthew Shenton
May 19, 2023
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A starting point
Landscape and the fragmentary and fallible nature of memory are the central motifs of my sound work. I draw immense inspiration from both...
Matthew Shenton
Feb 27, 2023
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