HARME & THE FOUR ZOAS – NEW RELEASESTwo new cdr releases are now available:

Harme is a new collaboration between Susan Matthews & Clint Newton (Beed and Fascia) it was created late-summer/autumn 2010 and is released by Siren Wire Recordings

The Four Zoas was created by Matthew Shaw (Apollolaan, Tex la Homa) especially for release on our Siren Wire Editions imprint and is strictly limited to 50 hand numbered copies

Both cdrs are released on the 6th December in a new style hand made, full colour, gatefold sleeve.

Please visit our ‘online shop’ for order details and to hear samples.

Many thanks to everyone who ordered Andrew Paine’s cd. We only have a handful of copies left so if you want one don’t hang around.We’re pleased to announce the next Siren Wire Editions release will be The Four Zoas new music recorded especially for us by Matthew Shaw (Tex la Homa, Apollolaan Recordings) A December release date will be confirmed very soon.

Then moving into the new year expect new releases by Les Heures Creuses, Richard Moult, Empty Vessel Music and Beed and Fascia

HARME
Susan’s recent collaboration with Beed and Fascia (aka Clint Newton) will be released by Siren Wire Recordings this month:

http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F4509844&secret_url=falseharme (with Susan Matthews) by beed and fascia

Andrew Paine ‘The Earth Remains Unshattered’

i) The Earth Remains Unshattered
ii) Matter & Space
iii) Forsake the Sky
iv) So Long As My Pincers Hold
v) Sceadu
vi) A Pulse Around A Circle
vii) Brilliant White
viii) The Storm is Overpast

Listen to a short extract here: www.sirenwire.bandcamp.com

Recorded in Glasgow, July – September 2010

Limited hand numbered edition of 50 in plastic slipcase with full colour card inserts. £4 GBP including postage & packaging to anywhere in the world.

This CDr will be released Monday 8th November 2010

For more information about Andrew’s other releases please visit; http://www.sonicoysterrecords.blogspot.com

Siren Wire Editions

Next month Siren Wire Recordings will be launching a new arm of the label with the release of ‘The Earth Remains Unshattered’ by Glasgow based Andrew Paine

Siren Wire Editions will focus on limited edition releases by carefully selected artists from around the globe. More news soon…

Shadow Walker reviewed

The latest issue of Wonderful Wooden Reasons includes a review of In Search Of The Shadow Walker. Ian Holloway describes the work as ‘…an absolute delight…a beautiful album’

Read the full review at Wonderful Wooden Reasons
( http://wonderfulwoodenreasons.homestead.com/current.html ) or visit our ‘reviews’ page

Download ‘The Whispering Void’The Whispering Void is now available to download from cdbaby using the link below:

In the next few weeks it will appear on itunes and all the usual digital download sites

The Whispering VoidSusan’s seventh solo album The Whispering Void will be released by Siren Wire Recordings on the 19th August 2010

Piano, voice, strings, acoustic guitar and electronics combine to create a calm but edgy meditation on the sorrows of grief.

LightScapes

Susan’s latest mix created exclusively for The Garden Of Earthly Delights radio show will be released on the same day as The Whispering Void The mix was originally broadcast November 2009 and includes some previously unreleased material including Almost As Already Is and Land Of Green Ginger The mix clocks in at close to 40 minutes and is housed in a beautiful hand crafted card sleeve with incredible photography by Bethany Resch

THE AGE OF HILLS – TERRA MIXHead to susanmatthews.bandcamp.com for a FREE Download of a previously unreleased mix of The Age Of Hills (original version on In Search Of The Shadow Walker)

In Search Of The Shadow Walker

Susan’s first solo album for two years will be released by Sonic Oyster Records on 19th July 2010

Track listing
Water Takers
The Deepening Dark
On Gwendraeth Fach
Broken
The Age Of Hills
Charlotte’s War
King Of The World
Llanrhidian Marsh
Shadow Walking

An album of ‘classically inspired vignettes and piano compositions’ In Search Of The Shadow Walker is strictly limited to 80 copies. For pre-order details please contact: sonicoysterrecords@yahoo.co.uk

60×60 DANCE eventNew York based Vox Novus have announced 60×60 Dance – Order of Magnitude Mix This is a ten hour event featuring music, dance and video. Music will be ‘…emitted from loud speakers at four corners of the gallery…Dancers will improvise at the center of the gallery…and live video will be projected on two opposing walls. The audience will walk freely in and out of the gallery, and around the dance area, being surrounded by multisensory stimuli from all directions’

Susan’s ONPS-4 is included.

The event kicks off May 30th at 10:59 at the FoFA Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

AUTUMNAL ABDUCTION

Susan’s audio visual project with Mark Ingram is now available to pre-order from our online shop. The package includes a four track audio ep by Susan and a DVD featuring experimental films made by Mark in response to each of the ep tracks. The videos were created from footage shot by Mark and Susan in Cumbria last September.

Visit our Video page to view the films.

Packaged in a double jewel case with full colour hand-made inserts, Autumnal Abduction will be released in May 2010

Full track listing:
In Water
Earth Stammers
On Fire Island
The Fragile Air

Autumnal Abduction has been screened at the following venues:
The FON Festival, Barrow In Furness, Cumbria
The Lanternhouse, Ulverston, Cumbria
The Blast House, Carmarthen

SILENCE ALIGHT – SOLD OUT!Apollolaan Recordings have announced that Silence Alight sold out within 24 hours of release, thank you to everyone who helped to make it a success.

SUSAN MATTHEWS with CLUTTER NEW RELEASE ON APOLLOLAAN

Silence Alight by Susan Matthews & Clutter is released 20th April on the wonderful Apollolaan Recordings This is a very, very limited release (50 copies) in beautiful individually hand-painted sleeves.

Silence Alight was recorded with Clutter last October in Cumbria during Susan’s residency at the FON (Full of Noises) Festival. It’s an extended work (around 23 mins) for piano, field recordings and electronics.

Visit: http://www.myspace.com/apollolaan to hear an extract

Purchase the cdr for £5 UK or £6.50 Rest of World – paypal payments to: info.apollolaan@googlemail.com

or visit http://apollolaan.blogspot.com/ for a paypal buy it now button

Remember these are strictly limited art editions, each disc comes in an individually hand painted sleeve with a full colour insert and a full colour ‘wrap-around’ outer cover. These are absolutely beautiful and expected to sell out very fast.

SUSAN MATTHEWS with ORFEO 5 VIDEOS

Two videos of Susan performing with Orfeo 5 at The Blast House in February have been added to the ‘video’ section of this website

The Blast House 2, 30 March 2010

HEATHEN HARVEST at SHIP OF FOOLS

Heathen Harvest have published a comprehensive review of last month’s Ship Of Fools night in London. The event was organised by Tursa and Kaparte Promotions to celebrate the launch of the compilation cd With Friends Like These and included performances by Tony Wakeford, Andrew King, Susan with Clutter, Naevus, Vultures and Eva Eden
Full review here: http://www.heathenharvest.com/article.php?story=20100228150054279

THE BLAST HOUSE reviewed

Visit the blog of visual artist Kathryn Campbell Dodd for a short review of the February debut of The Blast House featuring a performance by Susan with Orfeo 5:
http://bird-in-the-house.blogspot.com/2010/02/blast-house.html

CLASSWAR KARAOKE

The new Classwar Karaoke compilation was released 28th February 2010. For those unfamiliar with the project:

‘ClassWar Karaoke is a collective and netlabel, originated and operated by Anthony Donovan, Adrian Beentjes and Jaan Patterson. As a project, ClassWar Karaoke is based around a series of ongoing, quarterly surveys. Each survey is different – in terms of personnel, number of personnel, and in terms of theme. Participation is fairly open – so long as those interested in being involved work intelligently within the broad context of experimental music and do not seek to use the project as just another on-line shop-window for their material. So far, the inclusive nature of classwar karaoke has worked wonderfully-well in terms of quality of material’

Susan’s contribution to the project is a collaboration with Clutter (Shaun Blezard)

Ships Will Leave (8:44) was recorded live in Lambeth, London in Feb 2010 during rehearsals for their Ship Of Fools performance at Temple Pier to promote the release of the Tursa compilation With Friends Like These

Ships Will Leave is a reworking of elements of Susan’s Time Will Leave Me Behind from the Tursa compilation.

More information about Classwar Karaoke here: http://classwarkaraoke.com/

LIVE WITH ORFEO 5 AT THE BLAST HOUSE

Susan will headline live with Shaun Blezard and Keith Jafrate (Orfeo 5) at the debut of The Blast House a new monthly multi-media event curated by Chris Ozzard.Susan and Orfeo 5 will create new music for the event and will also perform a new version of Shaun and Susan’s Silence Alight the piece they debuted at last October’s FON Festival in Cumbria. Experimental film maker Mark Ingram will also be debuting new videos featuring music by Susan.

The Blast House kicks off at 7.30pm at the Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen, Wales.

WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE

Tursa and Kaparte Productions present “With Friends Like These” a double CD featuring a ‘compilation of artists not constrained by musical label or ghetto’. Susan’s contribution is Time Will Leave Me Behind

The album also includes tracks by: Orchestra Noir, Sieben, Naevus, Tor Lundvall, Tony Wakeford, Andrew King and Arcana, Albireon, Alex Monk, Amber Asylum, Andrew King, Arcana, Art Immunda, Autumn Grieve, Brown Sierra, Christy & Emily, Cutty Sark, Eva Eden, Gargemella, Golgatha, Gregorio Bardini, Guy Harries, Heidika, Hekate, Hide & Seek, Hong Kong In The 60s, Human Greed, Man Eat Man Eat Man, Mercy Liao, Naevus, Orchestra Noir, Pilori, (r), Richard Moult, Rose Rovine E Amanti, Seventh Harmonic, Shining Vril, Sieben, Sonver, That Summer, The Hare & The Moon, Tony Wakeford, Tor Lundvall, Vega, Vultures and While Angels Watch.

The CD is distributed by Cold Spring.

SHIP OF FOOLS, LONDON PERFORMANCESusan will be doing a short live set with Clutter at The Ship Of Fools Club, Bar & Co Temple Pier, Victoria Embankment, London, WC2R 2PN on 7th Feb, doors:7.30pm – this is the Tursa ‘With Friends Like These’ cd launch and will include performances by Naevus, Tony Wakeford, Andrew King, Eva Eden and Will Connor

Ticket information here: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/68832

NEW VIDEOS

Two videos by Jim Tetlow shot at last October’s F.O.N. FESTIVAL at The Canteen Media and Arts Centre, Barrow-In-Furness, Cumbria

Wonderful Wooden Reasons

The first issue of the new decade features a round up of top tens and highlights of 2009 by a wide range of musicians including Susan. Find out more here:

http://www.wonderfulwoodenreasons.co.uk/

DECOYED on NECKTAR 2017 Vol. 2

The latest Necktar release on Le Colibri Necrophile is now available for free download, featuring Susan’s previously unreleased piano based track Decoyed

More info here: http://www.archive.org/details/Necktar2017Volume2

2009

NEW CD RELEASES BY SUSAN AND RAINIER LERICOLAISSusan’s latest collaboration with Rainier Lericolais is now available. VII an album in the form of two 7 track eps in gorgeous hand made card sleeves.

Visit the STORE page for full purchase details.

Listen to tracks from the project at http://www.myspace.com/matthewslericolais
and/or: http://www.myspace.com/susanmatthews

TEMPORAL ECHOES: A RETROSPECTIVE released

Susan has released a 10 track retrospective cdr featuring material from each of her solo albums. Released to co-incide with October’s F.O.N. Festival it is available in a plastic sleeve with full colour insert. More details on the STORE page.

F.O.N. FESTIVAL

In October Susan was in Residency at The Canteen Media and Arts Centre in Barrow-In-Furness Cumbria as part of the F.O.N. FESTIVAL She spent best part of a week working in the town and was fortunate to finally meet up with Shaun Blezard (Clutter) The pair worked on a new piece for piano and electro-acousticcs which was debuted live at the Festival on the Friday. The piece will hopefully be released in the not too distant future. Susan also worked with Mobile Radio, creating a version of Robert Wyatt’s ShipBuilding with Sarah Washington and contributing to their live radio broadcast on the Friday of the festival.

Here’s a F.O.N. Festival write-up from The Box:

http://www.thebox.myzen.co.uk/Music/F.O.N_Friday.html

ON THE RADIO

The exclusive radio mix Susan created for The Garden Of Earthly Delights Radio show was unfortunately delayed last month due to technical difficulties at CRMK. However Head Gardener has kindly rescheduled and it will now be broadcast on Friday 27th November at 10pm. Please visit http://www.gardenofearthlydelights.com/ or http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=388787956&blogId=507951972 for more details.

EXCLUSIVE MIX at THE SOUND PROJECTOR

Susan has created an exclusive mix for the current issue of The Sound Projector Magazine. If you buy the magazine you’ll receive a code to download the exclusive English Wildlife compilation album featuring ‘Ellipse-Theme’ For anyone who’s not familiar with The Sound Projector it’s a massive print magazine featuring hundreds of reviews and articles about all aspects of experimental music and definitely worth every penny of the cover price:

Current issue

At THE GILD with TONY WAKEFORD and M

Susan has leant her voice to Tony Wakeford and M’s new project The Gild. Listen to a handfull of extracts from the forthcoming cd at http://www.myspace.com/thegild.hq

AXIS VEIN REVIEWED by JUDAS KISS MAGAZINE

Michael Cunningham has given Axis Vein a glowing review at judaskissmagazine.co.uk

A full transcription has been added to our Reviews section.

NEW MUSIC/NEW VIDEOSExperimental film/video artist Mark Ingram is creating four abstract videos to accompany new work Susan is creating for the F.O.N. Festival later this month.

Here are the first two of the series:

FULL OF NOISES

Susan will be in Residency at The Canteen Media and Arts Centre, Michaelson Road, Barrow-In-Furness from Monday 19th-Saturday 24th October
For more details please visit: http://www.fonfestival.org

RADIO AIRPLAY IN OCTOBER

Susan has created a new 40 minute mix of her work to be broadcast on Friday 23rd October by The Garden Of Earthly Delights The mix will include a large amount of new and previously unreleased material. Please visit http://www.gardenofearthlydelights.com for more information.

Another new piece My Name Is Blind will be broadcast on Saturday 24th October by NTNS Radio
More info here: http://ntnsradio.wordpress.com/

Both shows will focus on F.O.N. FESTIVAL and EARTH MP related artists.

FULL OF NOISES, 2009Susan will be In Residence at the F.O.N. Festival from Monday 19th to Saturday 24th October

F.O.N. is a weekend of new works and performances from: Faust, Richard Youngs, Black Carrot, Pram, Susan Matthews, Mobile Radio, Haco, Good Noise Bad Noise & more.

At The Canteen Media and Arts Centre, Barrow-In-Furness, Cumbria.
More info from: http://www.fonfestival.org
Tickets from: http://www.skiddle.com/0844 884 2920

NOT ALL OF ME WILL DIE

The latest solo album by Tony Wakeford is now available from The Eastern Front. The work commemorates the poetess Zuzanna Ginczanka and includes guest vocals by Susan.

For more information visit:
http://www.theeasternfront.org
http://www.myspace.com/tursa

FIELD NOTES

The latest Earth Monkey compilation is now available:

Field Notes features 24 tracks all incorporating field recordings by a wide variety of artists.

Susan contributed Keel Reverie featuring recordings of rain and thunder and the voice of French Multi-Media artist Hoel le Quenven.

The entire compilation is available to download for free here: http://www.earthmp.com

JUST NOT NORMAL

Susan has a new song Babies In My Dream included on the latest compilation from the Justnotnormal Netlabel

This is a massive 52 track release featuring…

…the finest in what is available in experimental music these days

Download for free here: http://justnotnormal.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/jnn050-various-artists-no-r-mal/

THE LAST DAY OF SUMMER

Alistair Crosbie has created a 12+ minute piece of work ‘…inspired by but not musically related to’ Susan’s composition Summer’s Over

For more information on Alistair’s work please visit: http://www.myspace.com/alistair crosbie

SLOW CORROSION reviewed by JUDAS KISS‘…a fresh and engaging exchange of talent’

So say Judas Kiss Magazine whose review of the Clutter vs Susan Matthews ep Slow Corrosion has just been added to our ‘Reviews’ page.

BOTANICAL ECHOES in TheROOM

Susan recently contributed the recording Botanical Echoes to the installation TheROOM. A part of the Soundleak Project at the Medien Kultur Haus, Wels, Austria.

TheROOM is a study of ‘hearing through the walls, partitions and visually blocked area’ by Keiko Uenishi.

More Info: http://www.soundleak.org/theroom/about

Pictures of TheROOM: http://www.flickr.com/photos/oblaat/sets/72157616296885507/

Susan’s contribution is available for download here: http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28botanical%20echoes%29

SUMMER’S JOY REKINDLED – NEW EP RELEASEThe new collaboration between Susan and Alistair Crosbie will be released Monday 11th May by Siren Wire Recordings.

TRACK LISTING:
Summer’s Faith In Summer’s End
Summer Half-Remembered
Summer’s Cloudcover

This is a Limited Edition of 40 copies and comes in a beautiful handmade sleeve:

LADIES NIGHT on NTNS RADIOHere is a recent Myspace Bulletin from NTNS RADIO. If you can’t listen this weekend shows are podcast: http://www.intelligentmachinery.net/?q=node/526 (If you missed the recent broadcast of Prague Soundtrack check out the February 21st podcast)

—————- Bulletin Message —————–
From: NotTheNormal Shit Radio
Date: 18 Mar 2009, 05:28
Subject: NTNS radio presents Ladies Night – March 21st!
Honoring the ladies of Experimental electronica

It may be true that there are disproportionately few women who make electronic music, but those that do create some of the best music you can find anywhere. What better way to prove the fact than to dedicate an entire show to the ladies? During this special brink-of-Spring edition of NTNS Radio, we will share the talents of these excellent experimental musicians.

Expect music by

Blevin Blectum, Khate, Big city orchestra, Susan Matthews, Achnn, Dark Muse, Liz Cristina, Twelve Atmosperes, Diona, Esther B, Elisa Luu, Holly Stewart, Julie Rousse, Adamned.age, Die Minimalistin, Blank and possibly more

Enter in the astronomical spring

www. intelligentmachinery.net/?q=node/33

SPRING CREATURES – 31 SONGS

An Experiment For Spring
Throughout the month of March I’ll be uploading a new song to my Myspace Player every day. That’s 31 tracks!

Each track will be new, previously unreleased, or released in a limited capacity. A combination of early and recent works, acoustic and electronic, music created for Art Exhibitions, Sound Art Festivals, Compilations and the simple love of making music.

Please visit regularly and let me know your thoughts: myspace.com/susanmatthews

Prague Soundtrack on NTNS RadioPrague Soundtrack will be played on NTNS Radio in Amsterdam this weekend.

More info here:
myspace.com/ntnsradio
intelligentmachinery.net

Thanks to Earth Monkey (earthmp.com) you can also download the Prague piece here: archive.org/details/emp067

Prague Soundtrack FREE DOWNLOAD

Earth Monkey Productions released Prague Soundtrack on 4th February 2009. The work is available for FREE DOWNLOAD here: http://www.archive.org/details/emp067

Visit http://www.earthmp.com for details of their extensive back catalogue of releases by some of todays best independent recording artists

Susan has contributed a new work babycomeback to the recently released Necktar 2017, Vol.1 A download compilation album released by Le Colibri Necrophile

Listen/Download the album here: http://www.necktar.info/Necktar_2017/Volume_1/index.htm

babycomeback is Susan’s second recording for the label, the first being Where Birds Come To Die on 2007’s A Tribute To Necktar album.

PRAGUE SOUNDTRACK – LIMITED EDITION CDR RELEASE

Susan’s recordings for the aborted Prague art film soundtrack are now available on limited edition cdr. Susan edited the recordings in early December 2008 into a 20+ minute soundscape incorporating piano, voice, recorder, percussion and music box elements. The cdr is limited to 30 copies packaged in hand made card sleeves in an assortment of colours.

Once these copies are sold Earth Monkey Productions will release Prague Soundtrack via their download label.

DARK MATTERSusan has contributed a new track Dark Matter to Paste Modeling Silence a compilation cdr curated by Rainier Lericolais on the THT Disques label.

The full line up is: Simon Fisher Turner, Geoffrey Montel, Susan Matthews, Pierre Yves Mace, PG, Marco Lugghi, That Summer, Rainier Lericolais, Richard Fauguet

Please contact Rainier Lericolais at http://www.myspace.com/lericolaisrainier for more details

RELEASE OF NEW COLLABORATION WITH RAINIER LERICOLAISSusan’s second collaboration with Rainier Lericolais is now available on CDR

When The Ghosts Are Within These Walls is available to buy direct.

Ten tracks in a plastic slip case with colour inserts.

Tracks from the album can be heard here: www.myspace.com/matthewslericolais

THE SOUND PROJECTOR REVIEWS

Ed Pinsent has reviewed four of Susan’s releases for his website The Sound Projector. He reveals his thoughts on Axis Vein, Homothetique Ricochet, The Silent Architect and Hope-Bound. Read his article in full here: http://www.thesoundprojector.com/2008/11/

All four reviews have also been added to our Reviews page

EXPERIMUSIC.COM REVIEW AXIS VEIN

Matthews’ use and combination of subtle textures and pronounced dynamics makes you drift into a warm and inviting abyss from which you don’t want to leave.

Read the full review here at sirenwire.com or visit http://www.experimusic.com

‘SPLINTERS’ – NEW VIDEOJapanese video artist Yokna Patofa has created a promo video for Splinters the opening track from Susan’s latest solo album Axis Vein

Here’s a still from the video:

View the video at youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w-fXIqzS4Q

You can find Yokna at: http://www.myspace.com/yoknapatofa

HOPE-BOUND REVIEW

A new review of Hope-Bound has been added to the reviews section.

SLOW CORROSION VITAL WEEKLY REVIEW

Vital Weekly (http://www.vitalweekly.net/642.html) have reviewed Slow Corrosion this week:

‘Slow corrosion…belongs to the darkest territories of trip hop with dragging beats slowly moving in creepy electronic atmosphere…mixed up with the excellent voices of Susan Matthews’

Follow the ‘reviews’ link on the left to read in full

Ok, we’ve had a bit of time off here at sirenwire.com so it’s time for a round up of this summer’s news:

SLOW CORROSION REVIEW

The lovely Ian Holloway has reviewed the Clutter vs Susan Matthews ep for his Wonderful Wooden Reasons webzine.

‘…a very interesting diversion and a bold and welcome sideways step into the unknown…’

Read it in full on our reviews page and please visit Wondeful Wooden Reasons here: http://www.wonderfulwoodenreasons.co.uk

RADIO PLAY FOR SLOW CORROSION

The Clutter vs Susan Matthews ep has also been receiving notable airplay here in the UK. It’s been played recently on The Sound Projector (on Resonance FM), The Download Show (on Oldham Community Radio) and Dandelion Radio (on the Internet)

AMALGAM, TIME AND TIDE RELEASE featuring SUSAN MATTHEWS

Dutch trio Time & Tide have just released Amalgam an album created from sound samples and music donated by fellow experimental sound artists including Susan Matthews

Amalgam comes with an unique hand painted cover and is strictly limited to 50 copies! The album is priced at 18euro which includes world wide shipping and can be purchased via Paypal from http://www.myspace.com/timeandtideproject

60×60 US RADIO PLAY

Susan has once again contributed to the Vox Novus annual 60×60 event. The project has received airplay in the States on a number of occasions over the past few weeks:

– On the Afternoon New Music show hosted by Justin Goncalves and Anne Cammon on WKCR 89.9FM, Wednesday June 25th, 2008, 3:00-6:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (USA), http://www.columbia.edu/cu/wkcr/

– On Kalvos and Damian, Saturday July 19th, 2008 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time , WGDR 91.1 FM, http://wgdr.org/ http://www.kalvos.org/

– On Martian Gardens, Sunday July 20th at 9:30 PM – 12:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, WMUA 91.1 FM, http://www.wmua.org/ http://martiangardens.blogspot.com/

60×60 also gets routinely played on with Anne Cammon on Arts and Answers on WKCR. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/wkcr/arts/load.html

AXIS VEIN – NEW SOLO ALBUMSusan’s fifth solo album Axis Vein will be released by Siren Wire Recordings on July 16th 2008.

Track Listing:
Splinters, Breech Wretch, Moon Tremors, The Blood Harvest, Bound, The Empty Auditorium, Flex, (Moon Bound), The Cartography Of Fear, The Architect’s Demise

Ten tracks designed to carry you

‘…through various stages of terrifying emotional vivisection and inquietude’
Dan Schaffer 2008

Check out our ‘reviews’ page to read Dan’s thoughts on Axis Vein

THE CARTOGRAPHY OF FEAR – NEW SOLO EP

In conjunction with the release of Axis Vein Siren Wire Recordings will be releasing a related ep The Cartography Of Fear

This release will be limited to 30 hand numbered copies

Track Listing
The Cartography Of Fear #2, The Middle Child Has No Discernible Role, The Cartography Of Fear #3

Both releases are available for pre-order via the ‘BUY CDS’ page on the left

Clutter vs Susan MatthewsThe new limited edition 3″ CDr EP Slow Corrosion is now available from Earth Monkey Productions

Slow Corrosion is part of the new Earth Monkey Productions Collectors Series which includes a limited edition 3″ ep by Good Noise Bad Noise and an exclusive numbered Clutter badge package.

More information about all the Collecters Series releases can be found Here

MOON TREMORS on EARTH MONKEY COMPILATION

A new piano based recording by Susan Moon Tremors is now available on the recently released 50:50 compilation on Earth Monkey.

The compilation features a diverse array of Earth Monkey artists and is available to download for free HERE

CLUTTER vs SUSAN MATTHEWS EP

Here’s the sleeve for the forthcoming EP. No release date yet but should be available within a couple of weeks or so

The EP will feature four tracks with source material by Susan mixed by Shaun Blezard of Clutter

EARTH MONKEY PODCAST

A special hour and a bit mix by Clutter of past Earth Monkey Productions releases has been released by INQ Mag and can be heard, downloaded, i-pod subscribed etc

here

The Earth Monkey is 50 mix includes Susan’s On A Theme Of Falling from ::FALLING:: An Earth Monkey Productions Compilation – emp025

NEW EP ON EARTH MONKEYThis one has happened rather quickly so apologies for the short notice!

Earth Monkey Productions are beginning a run of limited edition 3″ cd releases with ‘Clutter vs Susan Matthews’ in June 2008. Limited to 80 copies the EP will be available via Earthmp

More news soon

DARK MATTER on FORTHCOMING COMPILATION

The phenomenally talented Rainier Lericolais is curating a compilation cdr Paste Modelling Silence which will include Dark Matter a new composition by Susan. More information soon. Visit Rainier here

MATTHEWS/LERICOLAIS AT MYSPACE

Susan and Rainier Lericolais have set up a new Myspace page in support of their ongoing collaboration. The pair recently released Homothetique Ricochet on Siren Wire Recordings and are currently working on new material.

Visit their Myspace here

50/50 COMPILATION RELEASE

Earth Monkey Productions are celebrating reaching 50 releases with the new download only compilation 50/50 The release pulls together tracks from many Earth Monkey regulars and includes Susan’s piano based composition Moon Tremors No release date yet but it will be available some time in June 2008

Visit Earth Monkey here

AXIS VEIN FIRST REVIEW

Dan Schaffer has posted his thoughts on Susan’s upcoming solo album Axis Vein on his LiveJournal. It’s worth a look, if only because it’s one of the most beautifully written reviews we’ve ever read.

Dan Scaffer

‘Susan’s soundscapes touch on something close to a common nightmare. They begin beneath the surface of domestic ordinariness and descend into sorrow, distrust, madness, and abstraction. It’s at the bottom of this pit, where she scrapes her fingertips seductively against the edges of the unknown, that her style becomes stunningly unique’

Dan’s Live Journal is here

THE SILENT ARCHITECT and WONDERFUL WOODEN REASONS

Issue 18 of Wonderful Wooden Reasons includes a short but very sweet review of The Silent Architect.

Visit Wonderful Wooden Reasons here: http://wonderfulwoodenreasons.homestead.com/

Ian’s review has also been added to our own reviews page.

NEW ‘HOPE-BOUND’ REVIEW

‘… a collection of out-there explorations in which ambience and narrative, found sounds and lost noises are somehow hauled together to make something that will stir the thoughts inside your head even as it flicks you round the ear’

A new review of Hope-Bound from Nemesis-To-Go issue 5, has just been added to the reviews page.

PRE-ORDER ‘DREAMSCAPES’ and ‘HOMOTHETIQUE RICOCHET’

The two new cds are available for pre-order. ‘Homothetique Ricochet’ is already dispatching (as of 4th April) and ‘DreamScapes’ should be ready after the weekend.

!!! TWO NEW RELEASES !!!

‘DreamScapes’ BROADCAST DATE & CDR RELEASE

Details of the DreamScapes radio debut have been confirmed. It will be broadcast on Friday 11th April 2008 during the Garden Of Earthly Delights radio show.

The show can be heard over the internet via http://www.gardenofearthlydelights.com or on CRMK 89.8FM in the Milton Keynes (UK) area.

Track listing:
A Pig Shaped Hole In The Universe*
My Name Is Safe In Your Mouth* (new version with Nick Grey)
Lifelore
Splinters*
On A Theme Of Falling
Prague Soundtrack 2
Broken*/Are You In My Comfort Zone?*
Keel (Combined) (new mix)
Sanctuary
Breech Wretch*
Grieving Naid

The mix features a lot of new material (marked *) including a number of tracks from Susan’s forthcoming solo album Axis Vein

DreamScapes will be available on CDR from 11th April. Purchase details on the BUY CDs page.

HOMOTHETIQUE RICOCHET CDR RELEASE

(UK Sleeve)

Susan’s collaboration with Rainier Lericolais will (finally!) see the light of day on the 11th April 2008. Purchase details on the BUY CDs page.

There will also be a limited edition (same music, alternative packaging) which will only be available in France

(French Sleeve)

Dan Schaffer was the first to mention Homothetique Ricochet in his LiveJournal way back in September. This is what he had to say:

I heard the Rainier collaboration last week and it’s fantastic. Rainier coerces Susan’s music and vocal samples towards a more European, sometimes jazzier sound, but without losing the intense personal nature of her work. While some of these mixes embellish her sound with a more extravagant style, others are sparse and get even closer to the bone, the different angle tapping a new vein and taking us deeper into Susan’s intimate psychological soundscape, and closer to Susan herself (or the projected idea of what she represents within the music). For any collaboration, you’ve got to admit that’s pretty remarkable.

Track Listing:
Introduction de la Performance
Un Silence Dysfonctionnel
Pas Encore la Verite
Passionee de Vous (edit)
Un Silence Dysfonctionnel (a/capella)
Passionee de Vous
Un Silence Dysfonctionnel (Instrumental)
Une Performance de Leurre
Un Long Silence Dysfonctionnel
Verite

‘DREAMSCAPES’ ON THE RADIOSusan’s 40 minute exclusive radio mix is scheduled for broadcast on April 11th 2008. Created in March 2008 DreamScapes will feature new material, rare tracks, an unreleased remix and one or two selections from Susan’s back catalogue. The mix will be aired during the Garden Of Earthly Delights radio show and will also be released on CDR soon after the broadcast. More details soon.

SUSAN’S SANCTUARY

Earth Monkey Productions have announced the release of The Resting Bench Remix Project Vol.1 The project involved encouraging an eclectic mix of artists to remix music from Clutter and Ann Wilson’s The Resting Bench.

Susan’s contribution is Sanctuary (aka ‘Susan’s Sanctuary’)
Download the entire album for FREE from http://www.earthmp.com/

NEW REVIEWS

Check the REVIEWS page for Igloo Magazine‘s thoughts on The Silent Architect and Silent Variations

FLEX at the ZEPPELIN FESTIVAL

FLEX a composition constructed around recordings of domestic appliances will be featured in this years Zeppelin Festival. The event takes place on 13, 14 and 15 of March at the Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Spain. FLEX is programmed for 5pm on the 15th March. More info from http://www.sonoscop.net

‘THE GARDEN MIX’ ON CDRThe live mix by Head Gardener Shane Quentin. Originally broadcast during his ‘Garden Of Earthly Delights’ radio show on CRMK 89.8fm, 30th November 2007 will be available on CDR from Monday 25th February.

The mix features over 40 minutes of music culled from four of Susan’s cd releases and was originally only available via download (it proved to be popular, receiving close to 100 downloads in 24 hours!)

Purchase details on the BUY CDS page.

‘THE CARTOGRAPHY OF FEAR’ AT THE SOUND CAFEThe programme for this years SOUND CAFE event in Jedburgh has been announced. The event will take place on 9 February at Jedburgh Community and Arts Centre, The Friars, Jedburgh, Scotland and will feature a number of listening posts and an evening concert.

Station 4 will feature a new work by Susan ‘The Cartography Of Fear’ – a noise composition for strings, piano and voice.

Venue: http://www.jcac.org.uk/index.html

THE GARDENING MIX AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD

On November 30th Shane Quentin undertook a live mix of Susan’s work as part of his weekly ‘Garden Of Earthly Delights’ radio show. Following a little bit of tweaking the mix is now available for download here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?5dwamwtxmme

If we can get the OK from Shane, a cdr release of the mix will follow soon.

WONDERFUL WOODEN REASONS

Swansea based webzine Wonderful Wooden Reasons have just published the first ‘Hope-Bound’ review of 2008. Read it in the reviews section here at sirenwire.com

Please visit http://www.wonderfulwoodenreasons.co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/wonderfulwoodenreasons

THE SILENT ARCHITECT – REVIEWED?

Check out the reviews section for a rather unusual ‘review’ of The Silent Architect by Fatea

Although there are arguably folk elements to Susan’s work, Fatea generally concerns itself with the more traditional proponents of the genre. It was something of a surprise then, when just prior to Christmas they contacted Siren Wire requesting a review copy of ‘…Architect’

We weren’t sure what they’d make of it and well…. judging by the ‘review’, they still aren’t sure themselves…

http://www.fatea-records.co.uk/magazine/releases.html

LISTS

Susan’s work has fared well in a number of end of year lists:

Noise Is A Friend (www.myspace.com/noiseisafriend) voted ‘Hope-Bound’ and ‘The Silent Architect’ 8th and 9th respectively in his top 30 albums of 2007.

He writes:
More dazzling abstractions of grace and beauty, these songs just floor me. Susan has the incredible gift of being able to convey very private emotions through song-forms that shouldn’t work at first glance. Yet she pulls this trick time and again. Think early-His Name Is Alive, but further adrift, and way better than any description I can muster. If 4AD ever got good again, Susan would be perfect for them.

‘Lost Sorrows’ and ‘Silent Variations’ are placed at a very encouraging 3rd and 4th in his top 30 singles of 2007.

Paul Lloyd contributing editor to Igloo Magazine recently voted ‘Hope-Bound’ and ‘The Silent Architect’ right at the top of his top ten of 2007 list for the mag (www.igloomag.com)

Finally Hydragenic (www.hydragenic.com) included ‘Hope-Bound’ in his recent Favourite Music Of 2007 – Sounds Of Silver Blog.

He writes:
…with every listen I realise that I’ve barely scratched the surface of these fractured, mesmerising, enigmatic and fascinating pieces of music….Hope-Bound is one of the most sophisticated expositions of her compelling musical world-view to date.

READER’S DIGEST VOL.2

This compilation cdr by Rainier Lericolais is now available. Track six is an otherwise unavailable mix of A Dysfunctional Hush (retitled ‘Un Silence Dysfonctionnel’) The CDR was compiled for last Autumns joint exhibition by Arturas Bumsteinas and Rainier Lericolais at Ecole Regioale des Beaux-Arts de Rouen. The release is limited to 100 numbered copies. Please contact Rainier for more details and/or to listen to his wonderful music.

http://www.myspace.com/lericolaisrainier

The mix provides an ideal introduction to Susan and Rainier’s forthcoming collaborative project Homotetique Ricochet which will be released shortly by Siren Wire Recordings

November 2006

..On A Theme Of Falling.. a new work for piano and voice is now available on the Earth Monkey Productions compilation ..Falling..
The compilation also features tracks from David Whitaker, Adrian Carter, 4th Alternative, The Cardboard Lung, 1000 Aeroplanes Crashing In The Night, The Weedhaven Laughing Academy, Dawn Salvia, Clutter, Des Slow And The Stop Pills, Species 8472, Andy Kirk and Cousin Silas
Download, free of charge here
For more information on Earth Monkey releases click here
..TINY GRIEF.. is finally hereA new 4-track ep which effectively bridges the gap between Susan’s two full length CDs ‘SirenWire69’ and ‘bruiser’

Track Listing:
‘hello…’, ‘Mbox’, Grieving Naid (Alt Ver), ‘Mbox2’

..Tiny Grief is available for free download from da73 or to purchase on CD from Siren Wire Recordings

Many thanks to Mark for another stunning CD sleeve and Wright at da73 for his kindness and support (and patience!)

…listen to his band 1000 Aeroplanes Crashing In The Night here

2005