matthew shenton [there are no birds here]

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

'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

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

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...

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

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

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...