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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 23: Reflections
After ten months of sonic experimentation, artistic mentoring and sound collection it is time for a period of evaluation, reflection and for
Matthew Shenton
Oct 4, 2024
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Listening to the landscape 6 - Mr Whippy and water
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
Matthew Shenton
Feb 8, 2024
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Listening to the Landscape 2 - archaic words
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...
Matthew Shenton
Oct 29, 2023
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Bleached Memories: End of Project
Back in April 2023 I had completed a set of visuals by bleaching some Kodak slides, photographing the projections and arranging the...
Matthew Shenton
Jul 15, 2023
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Finishing the bleached visuals
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
Matthew Shenton
Apr 26, 2023
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Reconciled
Exploring the physical and material properties of the objects I use is very important to my work. I have always favoured analogue equipment
Matthew Shenton
Mar 20, 2023
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The innocent eye is a myth
My 2022 release on the Courier label felt like a pivotal moment for me in terms of how it was devised and realised.
Matthew Shenton
Mar 11, 2023
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One after another
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...
Matthew Shenton
Mar 2, 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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