http://cargocollective.com mcollingsmusic Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:44:36 +0000 http://cargocollective.com en http://mcollingsmusic.com/The-Third-Mind http://mcollingsmusic.com/following/mcollingsmusic.com/The-Third-Mind Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:44:36 +0000 mcollingsmusic 5266470 <img src="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/5266470/IMG_0221_resized.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/5266470/IMG_0221_resized_o.jpg" data-mid="28325678" border="0" align="left"/> The Third Mind Created by composer Matthew Collings and visual artist Erik Parr, The Third Mind is an interactive audio-visual app, performance and installation that explores the idea of ‘algorithmic cinema’. The project is an interactive space that combines cinema, music, 'foley' and live action performed by Matthew Collings (guitar, electronics, prepared amplifier, live foley), Christos Michalakos (percussion, electronics) and Erik Parr (visual processing). The project was premiered at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow, March 5-6th 2013 in association with Cryptic Nights. It was supported by an Alt-W Production award from New Media Scotland. - - - PRESS: 'a special brew well worth experiencing' METRO 'a strange and quite stimulating thing..a digitally-distressed garble ricocheting around our heads in surround sound...until image and audio were a hypnotic blur' THE SCOTSMAN - - - - - - - - <img src="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/5266470/image_ensemble.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="1200" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/5266470/image_ensemble_o.jpg" data-mid="28325589" border="0" align="left"/> The Third Mind - CCA Promo from matt collings on Vimeo. The Third Mind - Performance @ CCA Glasgow from matt collings on Vimeo. <img src="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/5266470/performance_colour_audience_above.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="1200" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/5266470/performance_colour_audience_above_o.jpg" data-mid="28325599" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/5266470/IMG_0222_resixed.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/5266470/IMG_0222_resixed_o.jpg" data-mid="28325753" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/5266470/christos_electronics_02.jpg" width="670" height="1005" width_o="800" height_o="1200" src_o="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/5266470/christos_electronics_02_o.jpg" data-mid="28325556" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/5266470/image_plus_foley_rezised.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/5266470/image_plus_foley_rezised_o.jpg" data-mid="28325758" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/5266470/matt_jag_spotlight_02.jpg" width="670" height="1005" width_o="800" height_o="1200" src_o="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/5266470/matt_jag_spotlight_02_o.jpg" data-mid="28325594" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/5266470/matt_erik_desk.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="1200" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/5266470/matt_erik_desk_o.jpg" data-mid="28325592" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/5266470/performance_bw_great.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="1200" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/5266470/performance_bw_great_o.jpg" data-mid="28325600" border="0" align="left"/> LIVE FOLEY: <img src="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/5266470/foley_scrape_b-w.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="1200" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/5266470/foley_scrape_b-w_o.jpg" data-mid="28325469" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/5266470/foley_feet_action.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="1200" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/5266470/foley_feet_action_o.jpg" data-mid="28325494" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/5266470/foley_pebbles.jpg" width="670" height="1005" width_o="800" height_o="1200" src_o="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/5266470/foley_pebbles_o.jpg" data-mid="28325504" border="0" align="left"/> The Third Mind Created by composer Matthew Collings and visual artist Erik Parr, The Third Mind is an interactive audio-visual app, performance and installation... http://mcollingsmusic.com/Contact http://mcollingsmusic.com/following/mcollingsmusic.com/Contact Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:42:53 +0000 mcollingsmusic 2391337 General Inquiries: mlscollings (at) gmail (dot com) Subscribe to our newsletter Bookings: paul (at) sleepsoundagency (dot com) Thank you.<img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/2391337/lazer_matt.JPG" width="670" height="1005" width_o="2048" height_o="3072" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/2391337/lazer_matt_o.JPG" data-mid="13681811" border="0" align="left"/> General Inquiries: mlscollings (at) gmail (dot com) Subscribe to our newsletter Bookings: paul (at) sleepsoundagency (dot com) Thank you. http://mcollingsmusic.com/Dance http://mcollingsmusic.com/following/mcollingsmusic.com/Dance Wed, 28 Sep 2011 03:53:56 +0000 mcollingsmusic 2069049 MUSIC/SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS FOR DANCE MELoDEE (2010) - COMMISSION FOR NEON DIGITAL ARTS FESTIVAL, DUNDEE (Collaboration with Skye Reynolds, Jung-in Jung and guest artist Tamsyn Russell) For Physical Gestures and Gaming Technology (using 3 Gametrak Controllers/Max/MSP) A FIXED POINT IN TIME (2009) This was a structured improvisation with Nicolas Fishleigh (Dance) and Simon Barker (Poetry) at the Eymundsson bookstore in Reykjavik TRANSMISSION (2011) A number of pieces are currently being developed with choreographer Skye Reynolds and Composer Pippa Murphy, using Nintendo Wii Controllers to allow dancers to shape the sonic aspect of a performance directly from their movements. MUSIC/SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS FOR DANCE MELoDEE (2010) - COMMISSION FOR NEON DIGITAL ARTS FESTIVAL, DUNDEE (Collaboration with Skye Reynolds, Jung-in Jung and guest... http://mcollingsmusic.com/Film http://mcollingsmusic.com/following/mcollingsmusic.com/Film Fri, 13 May 2011 15:37:45 +0000 mcollingsmusic 1441922 Music and Sound Design for Film Carino Trailer (Sound Design and Mixer Matthew Collings) Cariño - main trailer from julian nicholson on Vimeo. Showreel - A Selection of Music and Sound Design by Matthew Collings Tohu Va Vohu - Animation Directed by Jamie Mills, Music by Glacis, Mixed by Matthew Collings Tohu Va Vohu / Trailer from Jamie Mills on Vimeo. 'Guilt', Original Music and Sound Design Matthew Collings From the forthcoming full-length soundtrack to 'Guilt': 2012 - Carino - Dir. Shaun Hughes, Sound Design and Mixing Matthew Collings 2011 - 'A Light Affaire', dir. Ansgar Hoeckh, Original Music, Sound Design and Dubbing Mixer Matthew Collings 2011 – Guilt, dir. Hákon Pálsson, Original Music, Sound Design and Dubbing Mixer Matthew Collings 2010 – The Invisibles (short film series commisioned by Amnesty International), dir. Marc Silver, featuring Gael Garcia Bernal, Music by Ben Frost, performed by Daniel Bjarnason, Borgar Magnusson and Matthew Collings 2010 - The Man with the Movie Camera, dir. Dziga Vertov (1929), Original Soundtrack Matthew Collings, performed by Matthew Collings and Frank Aarnick. Commissioned by Reykjavik Design Festival 2010 – Jungle Fever, dir. Hákon Pálsson and Ansgar Hoeckh, Music and Sound Design Matthew Collings 2010 – Lilith – dir. Rósa Ómarsdóttir, Music and Sound Design Matthew Collings 2010 – 'I love you Mum', Competition Short film, dir.. Yu Hsueh Lin, Music Matthew Collings ~ 'The Invisibles': 'Jungle Fever' : Jungle Fever from Hákon Pálsson on Vimeo. Hákon Pálsson Showreel Original Music Matthew Collings Music and Sound Design for Film Carino Trailer (Sound Design and Mixer Matthew Collings) Cariño - main trailer from julian nicholson on Vimeo. Showreel - A... http://mcollingsmusic.com/Sketches-For-Albinos http://mcollingsmusic.com/following/mcollingsmusic.com/Sketches-For-Albinos Fri, 13 May 2011 14:59:42 +0000 mcollingsmusic 1441803 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/1441803/fonsy lake myvatn.gif" width="600" height="543" width_o="600" height_o="543" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/1441803/fonsy lake myvatn_o.gif" data-mid="7024588" border="0" align="left"/> Sketches For Albinos Camped out somewhere in deepest, iciest Iceland Sketches for Albinos (aka Matthew Collings) makes music from the ends of the earth. ...I guess it all began with adventuring with tapes and things I had no idea how to do, but having a itch to scratch and a gap in my mind record collection that had to be filled... All music composed and recorded by Matthew Collings in appartments and empty spaces on Lo-fi and Sub-standard instruments and consumer electronics in Reykjavik, Iceland between 2004 - 2010. These are fleeting moments, unrefined and emotive -- leftover breeze at the end of a storm...with his balance of the sweet against the discordant, the mood is simply more primordial than primal...(Jambands.com) FORTHCOMING: 'FIREWORKS AND THE DEAD CITY RADIO' , Loki Records, 2011 LISTEN TO ' DAYS OF BEING WILD AND KIND', Nothings66, 2010 days of being wild and kind by sketches for albinos LISTEN TO '...that city is a liar', Ropeadope, 2007 ...that city is a liar by sketches for albinos FULL BACK CATALOGUE AVAILABLE COURTESY OF BANDCAMP - sketchesforalbinos.bandcamp.com DISCOGRAPHY 2011 – Sketches for Albinos - Fireworks over the Dead City Radio, Loki Records, UK 2010 - Sketches for Albinos – 'Days of Being Wild and Kind', Nothings66 records, Japan 2010 - Sketches for Albinos - ́Bedroom Eyes ́, featured on ́Duskscape not Seen ́ compilation, (CD, Album), Nothings66 records, Japan 2007 – Sketches for Albinos - ́Red ́, (Download, Album), Imoto Records, UK 2007 – Sketches for Albinos - ́...that city is a liar ́, (Download, Album), Ropeadope Records, USA 2006 – Sketches for Albinos - ́Let it Snow ́, featured on ́It ́s not like Christmas ́charity compilation, (CD, Album), Izumi Records, UK 2005 - Sketches for Albinos – Sketches for Albinos EP, (CD, EP, Ltd Ed.), Girlfriend Records, UK FACEBOOK: Sketches for Albinos<img src="http://badge.facebook.com/badge/101678153208848.1944.1436257657.png" width="120" height="226" style="border: 0px;" />Promote your Page too MYSPACE: www.myspace.com/sketchesforalbinos Sketches For Albinos Camped out somewhere in deepest, iciest Iceland Sketches for Albinos (aka Matthew Collings) makes music from the ends of the earth. ...I... http://mcollingsmusic.com/Installations http://mcollingsmusic.com/following/mcollingsmusic.com/Installations Wed, 11 May 2011 02:53:45 +0000 mcollingsmusic 1428363 2012 - 'Heartbeater' - Commission for NEoN Digital Arts Festival, Dundee - Audio-Visual Installation with Erik Parr Heartbeater from matt collings on Vimeo. Article about 'Heartbeater' in the Dundee Courier: <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/1428363/heartbeater_Article_dundeecourier_small.jpg" width="670" height="551" width_o="937" height_o="771" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/1428363/heartbeater_Article_dundeecourier_small_o.jpg" data-mid="29662920" border="0" align="left"/> 2011 - 'Music Impossible' - Light beams, Light sensors, Octaphonic Sound Glasgow City Halls, Glasgow, UK Music Impossible was a joint commission from the Glasgow Old Fruitmarket Gallery with Brendan Doyle, Jung-in Jung and Martin Parker. It was specially created for Glasgow's UNESCO City of Music family fun day. A light and sound installation for all ages, the installation is modeled on a 'Mission Impossible' style scenario, when you break the beams, you can trigger sound! The installation is based around a custom-made system of lighting, light sensors and computer software in Max/MSP. Pictures from Music:Impossibe (copyright Elin Svennberg) <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/1428363/beams_maze_kid_parent_small_01.jpg" width="400" height="600" width_o="400" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/1428363/beams_maze_kid_parent_small_01_o.jpg" data-mid="12104870" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/1428363/lazer_hands_small_01.jpg" width="640" height="427" width_o="640" height_o="427" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/1428363/lazer_hands_small_01_o.jpg" data-mid="12104820" border="0" align="left"/> 2011 - 'Concept Mixer' - Royal Society of Edinburgh, Edinburgh UK An audio-visual installation commissioned by the Royal Society of Edinburgh for the inauguration of new members, November 2011. Based around 39 keywords drawn from the research areas of RSE members, the installation attempts to create dialogue and the cross-pollination of ideas across a wide range of topics. These range from physics and bio-technlogy to new music composition and renewable energy. Changes are linked to a microphone which triggers a shift in theme and images related to these themes. A sound is also triggered, marking the change. This is done via an audio threshold inside the software, which when crossed by a sound of a certain volume (i.e. a handlap) produces a fresh, randomised collection of media. 2011 – ´The Acoustic Amplifier: Augmented Instruments/Audio Exertion' – For Guitar, percussion and multiple Found Objects, With Gareth Griffiths and Giorgios Aposkitis Alison House, Edinburgh, UK The Acoustic Amplifier is an Augmented Instrument, combining acoustic instruments and found objects. It uses an Electric Guitar as a controller for other sound-making objects (such as percussion and resonant metal) via custom-made computer software and vibrational sensors. When the guitar is played, the 'Acoustic Amplifier' creates an unexpected and unique soundworld, highlighting the expressive and physical qualities of performing on the instrument. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/1428363/matt_acousticamplifier_01.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="720" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/1428363/matt_acousticamplifier_01_o.jpg" data-mid="7025235" border="0" align="left"/> 'Acoustic Amplifier' Demonstration (2011) The Acoustic Amplifier (performance & demonstration) from TheAcousticAmplifier on Vimeo. Development Stills for 'The Acoustic Amplifier' <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/1428363/cables2.JPG" width="670" height="446" width_o="750" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/1428363/cables2_o.JPG" data-mid="7025277" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/1428363/gareth.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="750" height_o="563" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/1428363/gareth_o.JPG" data-mid="7025281" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/1428363/gear.JPG" width="670" height="446" width_o="750" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/1428363/gear_o.JPG" data-mid="7025282" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/1428363/piano.JPG" width="670" height="446" width_o="750" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/1428363/piano_o.JPG" data-mid="7025287" border="0" align="left"/> Other Installations: 2011 – Manipulate Festival – Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, UK 2010 – Intersection – Burning Man Festival, San Francisco, USA 2009 – Nesting – Video Installation by Linn Bjorklund, Sound by Matthew Collings, Reykjavik Art Musuem, Reykjavik, Iceland 2012 - 'Heartbeater' - Commission for NEoN Digital Arts Festival, Dundee - Audio-Visual Installation with Erik Parr Heartbeater from matt collings on Vimeo. ... http://mcollingsmusic.com/Live http://mcollingsmusic.com/following/mcollingsmusic.com/Live Wed, 11 May 2011 02:52:53 +0000 mcollingsmusic 1428357 LIVE PERFORMANCES AND TOURS <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/1428357/3guitarsdistance_01.JPG" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/1428357/3guitarsdistance_01_o.JPG" data-mid="10220358" border="0" align="left"/> 2013 20th Feb with Alex Mackay Glasgow City Halls Candleriggs, G1 1NQ Glasgow 20.00 28th Feb with Mikael Lind Mono Glasgow 6th & 7th March 2013 // The Third Mind (algorithmic cinema project with Erik Parr) Performances with Christos Michalakos CCA // Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 3JD, 20.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CURRENT LIVE PIECES - Excerpt for performance at Sonica Festival, Glasgow. Live Video Streams from cameras fixed about two prepared amplifiers were projected onto a shop front in central Glasgow, as part of a live performance, with guitar and electronics Matthew Collings - Live at Sonica Festival. Glasgow from matt collings on Vimeo. Live set at Pilrig St. Paul's Church, supporting Tim Hecker - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ELYSIA For Guitar, Laptop, Compression, Prepared Amplifiers FLAGS OF A DEAD SHIP For Multiple Electric Guitars, Laptop, Prepared Amplifier and Room Microphones - Preview Video: 2012 LIVE DATES NOVEMBER 14th Glasgow -SONICA FESTIVAL - Hub Space, 14 Albion Street, Merchant City. 19th Bristol - Cafe Kino 20th Manchester - Kraak 24th Edinburgh - Wee Red Bar (Album release show) 25th Glasgow - Glad Cafe JULY July 7th with Neil Campbell and Mick Flower duo/Usurper Banshee Labyrinth Niddry Street Edinburgh MAY May 19th with Tim Hecker Pilrig St. Paul's Church Edinburgh APRIL TOUR WITH JASPER TX: April 10th Fox and Newt 9 Burley Street LS3 1LD Leeds, United Kingdom April 11th The Wee Red Bar Edinburgh College Of Art, 74 Lauriston Place EH3 9DF Edinburgh, United Kingdom April 12th Sacred Trinity Church Chapel Street, Salford M3 5DW Manchester, United Kingdom April 13th The Rude Shipyard 89 Abbeydale Rd Sheffield, South Yorkshire S7 1FE April 15th Cafe Oto 18 – 22 Ashwin St, Dalston E8 3DL London, United Kingdom LIVE PERFORMANCES AND TOURS 2013 20th Feb with Alex Mackay Glasgow City Halls Candleriggs, G1 1NQ Glasgow 20.00 28th Feb with Mikael Lind Mono Glasgow 6th &... http://mcollingsmusic.com/Recordings http://mcollingsmusic.com/following/mcollingsmusic.com/Recordings Wed, 11 May 2011 02:48:31 +0000 mcollingsmusic 1428295 'Splintered Instruments', released 31/01/13: PHYSICAL EDITION SOLD OUT DOWNLOAD EDITION CAN BE FOUND HERE: http://matthewcollings.bandcamp.com/album/splintered-instruments Splintered Instruments by Matthew Collings <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/1428295/MC21.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="1200" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/1428295/MC21_o.jpg" data-mid="25338863" border="0" align="left"/> Other examples of my recent work: SELECTED PRESS: The music on Splintered Instruments is both rough and beautiful. This is not about noise or the decibel levels (although I do recommend you listen to this album loud) – it’s about the sheer uncompromised approach to raw sound design…The final result is somewhat unclassifiable. Headphone Commute We can only raise a toast in gratitude that such music is being made despite its unfortunately underground status. A Closer Listen An album that is intensely emotional and sonically disturbing, but also creates a vein of melancholy and accessibility that ambient music rarely sees. The Death of CDs This is how you produce CDs in the modern age. Most impressive. Norman Records - - - - - - - - Video Promo (by Erik Parr, Timo Rychert and Matthew Collings): Splintered Instruments Promo from matt collings on Vimeo. - - - - - - - - - GRAVEYARD TAPES, (project with Euan Mcmeeken): 'Our Sound is Our Wound': Get the Record here: http://losttribesound.bandcamp.com/album/our-sound-is-our-wound 'WONDERLAND' with Dag Rosenqvist: Collaboration with Swedish composer Dag Rosenqvist, based around a series of images in Reuters of an abandoned amusement park in China. Wonderland by Matthew Collings and Dag Rosenqvist A THOUSAND PLATEAUS (collaborative EP with Talvihorros) 'This four track ep pushes both artist's sounds forward into new territory, creating a sound with as much in common with Tim Hecker's walls of noise as the delicate melodies of Talvihorro's previous work or Colling's Sketches for Albinos side-project… Melodies drenched in static ripped apart by a sub-bass arsenal with clarinet's wailing from an echo chamber on fire…a thousand plateaus.' - PRESS BIO a thousand plateaus by Talvihorros/Matthew Collings <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/1428295/tmc-tour-postcard-front.jpg" width="620" height="874" width_o="620" height_o="874" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/110198/1428295/tmc-tour-postcard-front_o.jpg" data-mid="10676602" border="0" align="left"/> 'Splintered Instruments', released 31/01/13: PHYSICAL EDITION SOLD OUT DOWNLOAD EDITION CAN BE FOUND HERE: ... http://mcollingsmusic.com/Bio http://mcollingsmusic.com/following/mcollingsmusic.com/Bio Wed, 11 May 2011 02:20:50 +0000 mcollingsmusic 1428284 ABOUT MATTHEW COLLINGS Combining the structures of minimal composition with avant-garde guitar music, Collings uses the amplifier as an instrument and the guitar as a control device for digital processes. Using numbers of 'prepared amplifiers', he coaxes unique sounds by placing bells, rice and wood directly onto the speaker cone and manipulating the physical vibrations with his fingers, producing a highly visual and physical performance. These approaches a viscerally demonstrated on his debut full-length release 'Splintered Instruments' (2013). This music is is textural, melodic and often sonically overwhelming. His work for films includes a specially commissioned live score for Dziga Vertov's 1929 silent classic, 'The Man with the Movie Camera' for the Reykjavik Design Festival (2010) and an invitation to work on 'The Invisibles' (2010), a commission from Amnesty International with Ben Frost, featuring Gael Garcia Bernal. His score for Hákon Palsson´s film 'Guilt' was recently performed at the opening of the Glasgow Short Film Festival. His work has also featured in Installations at Glasgow City Halls (2011), Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Dundee Neon Digital Arts Festival (2010, UK), Burning Man Festival (2010, USA), Chattanooga Gallery of Contemporary Art (2010, USA), Icelandic Academy of Arts (Iceland, 2009) and Manipulate Festival (UK, 2011). He has performed alongside many respected artists in his field, including Tim Hecker, Ben Frost, Chris Corsano, Nico Muhly and Jasper TX. Collings has already found considerable praise from the international community for his previous releases under the curious moniker Sketches for Albinos, releasing three full lengths albums in the US, UK and Japan. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SELECTED PRESS 'an elemental whorl of electro-acoustic (de)composition' BOOMKAT.COM 'creates a world of its own that envelopes the listener and provides a playground for the imagination, a theatre stage in surround sound' FLUID RADIO The music on Splintered Instruments is both rough and beautiful. This is not about noise or the decibel levels (although I do recommend you listen to this album loud) – it’s about the sheer uncompromised approach to raw sound design…The final result is somewhat unclassifiable. HEADPHONE COMMUTE “Collings’ hit the ground running approach lends weight, purpose and propulsion to his still controlled display of mood-led widescreen sound-shards…. At times the electronic stabs gallop along like a po-mo spaghetti western, at others, synthesised zithers and horns come on like a deconstructed noir as played by Godspeed You! Black Emperor." - THE LIST We can only raise a toast in gratitude that such music is being made despite its unfortunately underground status. A CLOSER LISTEN An album that is intensely emotional and sonically disturbing, but also creates a vein of melancholy and accessibility that ambient music rarely sees. THE DEATH OF CDS ́... on a par with anything that the mighty Sigur Rós have released ́ - RAWKSTAR.NET ON FACEBOOK: Matthew Collings<img src="http://badge.facebook.com/badge/114481790003.3796.1236737485.png" width="120" height="256" style="border: 0px;" />Promote your Page too PROMO FOR THE VIRGIN NETWORK: ABOUT MATTHEW COLLINGS Combining the structures of minimal composition with avant-garde guitar music, Collings uses the amplifier as an instrument and the guitar...