matthew shenton [there are no birds here]

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

Home to both the village hall and quoits club, the Holbrook village green sits almost slap bang in the centre of the village.

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

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

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.

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

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...

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...