matthew shenton [there are no birds here]

'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

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

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.

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

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

How I started to investigate what local data on the natural world is available, how to incorporate this into my sound work

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

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...

Listening to the Landscape will be a series of blog posts about my land/sound scape work in the hope of constructing a coherent narrative

I recently spent a wonderful week at the SPILL Think Tank in Ipswich as part of their artist residency scheme. Throughout the week I...