Winter Solstice
A piece of music for the longest night and the shortest day.
Three days later, the rising sun can be seen to move northwards again from its most southerly rising point in the south-east.
The returning light in the darkness.
Bryn Celli Ddu
This music was composed at and designed to be played within and around Bryn Celli Ddu. The piece first premiered at the site on the summer solstice 2024.
GWREIDDIAU / ROOTS was the 10th year anniversary of the Bryn Celli Ddu landscape project, based at the internationally important 5,000 year old passage tomb, Ynys Môn.
Think Creatively worked in collaboration with Cadw, Manchester Metropolitan University, GeoMôn, Galeri Caernarfon, Oriel Môn, Stone Club, Anglesey Druid Order, Rhys Mwyn and supported Welsh artists to deliver a series of workshops, walks, talks and excavations.
Released October 31, 2024
Tales of Cushendall
Caught by the River spent 2023 sentencing writers and artists to time in a tower in a far corner of these islands. Matthew Shaw, the seventh person to have served time in the Curfew Tower, shares two audio relics from his residency…
A Journey To The Stones
Limited edition CD in 4 panel Digipak, shipping out on or around September 6, 2024
Walking ancient Trackways.
Each place contains its own atmosphere, each stone its own resonance. Stones of Kernow and an old favourite ancient dolmen in Dorset provided the inspiration and locations for the recordings you will hear within this album. Stone circles, standing stones, ancient trackways, quoits, carns, cairns, hillforts and sacred springs have all contributed to the sounds within. Places such as these have long provided inspiration for me over the years but never before have I so literally composed a collection of music in such a dedicated way.
After recordings were collected and sampled the resulting compositions were sculpted and formed in an old granite cottage in Penryn. Granite is ubiquitous in Cornwall, its lithic presence along with quartz and lichen. Moss and leaf moulds that grow, rest and settle on the stones themselves.
Matthew Shaw, beneath the Tor, Glastonbury, July 2024
GWREIDDIAU
Recorded for and first played at the neolithic burial chamber Bryn Celli Ddu as part of GWREIDDIAU.
GWREIDDIAU / ROOTS was the 10th year anniversary of the Bryn Celli Ddu landscape project, based at the internationally important 5,000 year old passage tomb, Ynys Môn.
Think Creatively worked in collaboration with Cadw, Manchester Metropolitan University, GeoMôn, Galeri Caernarfon, Oriel Môn, Stone Club, Anglesey Druid Order, Rhys Mwyn and supported Welsh artists to deliver a series of workshops, walks, talks and excavations.
released August 2, 2024
Composed performed and produced by Matthew Shaw.
Featuring in order of appearance;
Gwydion
Oliver Smith
Tristan Rhys Williams
Chunky Dancer
Ciaran Hodgers
Pat Davies
Rik Warren
Anghared Evans
Manon Prysor
Pages
Verdant Brewing Co alongside Track Brewing and Beak Brewery (Manchester & Lewes) are proud to announce: Pages - A Literary Event.
Pages will bring together three of the country's leading craft breweries alongside three of the most exciting publishers and authors. Verdant Brewery based in Penryn Cornwall have built a relationship with White Rabbit publishing over the past 12 months after a chance meeting with editor Lee Brackstone at Seachange Festival in Totnes.
Joining Verdant on the night will be David Keenan. David Keenan is the author of five critically-acclaimed novels; the cult classic This is Memorial Device, which won the London Magazine Prize; For the Good Times, which won the Gordon Burn Prize; The Towers The Fields The Transmitters, Xstabeth and Monument Maker, which was a Rough Trade Book of the Year. He lives in Glasgow, Scotland, and has recently completed a new work called Magic Is Real: Magic, Creativity, Love and Resurrection in Literature.
Joining Verdant on the night will be David Keenan. David Keenan is the author of five critically-acclaimed novels; the cult classic This is Memorial Device, which won the London Magazine Prize; For the Good Times, which won the Gordon Burn Prize; The Towers The Fields The Transmitters, Xstabeth and Monument Maker, which was a Rough Trade Book of the Year. He lives in Glasgow, Scotland, and has recently completed a new work called Magic Is Real: Magic, Creativity, Love and Resurrection in Literature.
Track Brewing will be celebrating Rose Boyt (Picador).Rose is the author of Naked Portrait, a searing new memoir covering her relationship with her father, the renowned artist Lucien Freud. The book explores her experience of modelling for him from childhood until after her marriage, the power imbalance in their relationship, her adulation of him and how - years later - she worked it all out. It is a viscerally honest account of a very complicated father-daughter relationship.
Beak will be joined by Eliza Clark (Faber & Faber). Born in 1994 in Newcastle Upon Tyne, Eliza Clark is the author of Boy Parts (2020) and Penance (2023). In 2020, Boy Parts was Blackwell’s Fiction book of the year, and in 2022 Eliza was chosen as a finalist for the Women’s Prize Futures Award for writers under thirty-five. In 2023, she was named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. She also writes for film and television.
The talks will begin at 18:00 and continue until 20:00. All hosted by Stone Clubs Matthew Shaw. Matthew Shaw is an artist based in Cornwall working predominantly with photography, sound and film. Matthew has worked on performances and installations for a variety of places including Barbican, Charleston House, Barclodiad y Gawres, Glastonbury Festival, Sea Change Festival & The Social. Collaborators include Brian Catling, Shirley Collins, Jimmy Cauty & Jem Finer, The Pop Group, Jamie Reid, Richard Norris & Justin Robertson.
The evening and into the night will be coupled with a Tap Takeover of the Corner Bar with all three breweries beers. Justin Robertson will be providing the music until late. DJ, Record Producer, Author, Artist and Music consultant. Showbiz is a fickle game. Fashions change and genres evolve at a dizzying velocity. To stay at the cutting edge as a DJ, music producer, broadcaster, visual artist, & author requires an unshakeable passion and a restless urge to keep evolving. Justin Robertson has occupied that edge in one form or another for 35 years, remaining rapier sharp across all these diverse fields.
The bar will be open to the public until 00:00 and everyone is welcome to attend, the talks will be ticketed and attendees will receive a flight of beers to enjoy with the ticket price. Alongside a can of Beaks new IPA Biblio to celebrate the very first Pages event at the Tate Modern. Expect an evening full of magic, emotion alongside dancing and merriment. The team from each brewery will be in attendance on the night alongside the authors and publishers.
Druidic Passage
I have witten a new piece for Caught By The River about a pilgrimage to Iona.
“Along with fellow members of The Druid Order, Matthew Shaw makes a 556-mile pilgrimage to the Island of Iona.”
bloom
I have written about stones, landscape and gardens for the issue 16 of bloom. Taking in Ithell Colquhoun, Barbara Hepworth and Derek Jarman along the way
The Still Silence at the Centre
Six ambient compositions, recorded on the numinous pathways and modern roads around Britain. these pieces come from sacred sites and urban sites of intrique. Looking back into histories and mysteries, folklore and OS maps.
Those that Sparkle in the Sky was created thanks to funding from The Blue Heart Trust
Eternity and a day
An ambient composition inspired by the Avebury landscape
Ancient Pathways and Modern Roads
Thank you to Caught by the River for publishing this new piece I’ve written about ancient Dorset and deep time from the A35.
Beyond the touch of the living
A piano composition recorded in Firle, East Sussex.
Numinous Pathways
A new composition made on the pathways of ancient Britain, the resonance from the stones and the sounds of a moment captured.
Crwydro Cymru Hynafol
Crwydro Cymru Hynafol was recorded on a series of walks stopping at Bryn Celli Ddu Burial Chamber, Din Lligwy stone settlement, Gop Hill Cairn, Moel Arthur Hillfort
Resurgence & Ecologist
I have interviewd the artist Jeremy Deller for the November / December 2023 issue of Resurgence & Ecologist.
Dark Mountain - Eight Fires
I have written about stones and our connection to place, about moments of inner peace and silence for the latest issue of Dark Mountain.
This is a book of practices, testimony, tools, ceremony, stories, art and poetry, inspired by the 82 people who went into their local territories to make an embodied connection with the more-than-human worlds, and brought back its treasures. It has been created both by the ‘firekeepers’ who took part in the workshops, and by artists and writers who have responded to the ideas behind our collaborative practice. It is shaped around the eight fires, following the themes we focused on, with the opening of the practice at winter solstice, and a holding fast at the zenith of summer solstice, looking forward and back at the cycles of the year.
Gently Johnny Stone Club remix
The Stone Club Remix of Gently Johnny by Katy J Pearson & H. Hawkline
SEVEN ROOMS
Assorted Materials
from a “Paper Hotel”
Edited by Dominic J. Jaeckle & Jess Chandler
I have poems and photographs in this new collection published in Autumn 2023 in a limited edition—edited by Tenement’s Dominic J. Jaeckle, Prototype’s Jess Chandler, and designed and typeset by Traven T. Croves (Matthew Stuart & Andrew Walsh-Lister, of Tenement, Prototype, and Bricks from the Kiln)
HISTORIES & HAUNTINGS: AN EVENING OF SCREENINGS AND READINGS
EVENT: HISTORIES & HAUNTINGS: AN EVENING OF SCREENINGS AND READINGS
DATE: 19th October 2023 - 19th October 2023
TIME: DOORS OPEN : 6.30PM - 9.30PM
VENUE: SWEDENBORG HALL
PRICE: FREE TICKETS (BOOKING ESSENTIAL)
PARTICIPANT/S: CLAUDIA BARTON | RENCHI BICKNELL | JACK CATLING | ALLEN FISHER | ANDREW KÖTTING | MATTHEW SHAW | IAIN SINCLAIR
Scilly Isles, Late summer days
Diary entries and Fieldnotes for Caught by the River
“Matthew Shaw shares the tunnels, tombs, standing stones and seals documented in his notebooks on a recent trip to the Isles of Scilly”
The Hurdy-Gurdy Song Stone Club Extended Mix
The Stone Club Remix of The Hurdy-Gurdy Song by Local Psycho (Jem Finer & Jimmy Cauty)
Dividual Individual - Matthew Shaw Dub Mix
Resurgence & Ecologist
I have written a piece for the latest issue of Resurgence & Ecologist about stumbling on a way of creating not only a thriving and eclectic community, but also a new (ancient) inclusive space based on our shared reverence for and love of… well, old stones.
You can read the full article here
Painting of Men-an-Tol by Sarah Vivian
Ignota - Moon Journal
I have written a piece about my creative process for Ignota this month, incuding a never before heard piece of music from my Landscapes of Ancient Britain project. I write about West Penwith, Ithell Colquhoun, ancient scents and alchemical figures.
You can subscribe to Ignota here
Matthew Shaw's version of Spacemen 3's 'Mary Anne' from Glass Remade/Remodelled
“And here we are…. and so for the 40th Anniversary of the original
label wehave this collection of old songs made new by old friends
and new, for the kids, old and young. Many thanks to all who took
part and God bless us everyone.
David Barker Stoke Newington, London August 2022
Glass Records remains one of the great unsung British independent
labels of the 1980s. Founded and fronted by the charismatic rock
provocateur David E. Barker, Glass blazed a trail with seminal
releases by the likes of Jacobites, Spacemen 3, The Pastels and
many many more. They even became the first British label with the
good taste to domestically release a record by an obscure mid-west
American bar-band called TheReplacements. Salute.
Laurence Bell, Domino Records
I love Dave Barker for loads of reasons the main one is though he
knows music lives for music and breathes music.
Alan McGee, Creation Records”
I have new music available on the library music label FOLD as part of Mute library. Themed around Stones, the landscape and long walks.
Exhibition at The Social
Super excited to announce the first ever Stone Club exhibition; Stones of Kernow, a series of ancient sites in Cornwall photographed by Matthew Shaw. With a very special one of print by Brian Catling RA.
15 August 2022 - 26 September 2022
Featuring classic ancient Cornish sites, alongside lesser known but equally magical places. Shot in Black and White, capturing the atmosphere of ancient Kernow.
The exhibition will be on the walls of The Social in Little Portland St. and on the front of the building.It begins Monday 15th. Come. Enter the portal. Transport yourself.
New music recorded on the pathways of ancient Britain, released today for the summer solstice 2022.
Field recordings and compositions from Stonehenge, Sussex, Dorset, Cornwall, from Stone Circles, Fogou’s, ancinet churches, hillforts and fields!
Available on all digital platforms
A psycogeographical odyssey tracing the stones of Glasney around the ancient ancient Cornish town of Penryn. Lally and Matthew take a survey from the late 1970's on a walk and look at what remains and what has been lost and find a few new discoveries along the way including the Verdant Taproom, Penryn's latest and greatest evidence of regeneration. Why do you need this? Because 'ryners are winners!
Broadside Hacks - Barbry Allen (Matthew Shaw remix)
Download here
I am very excited to be part of EARTH / PERCENT’s Earth Day Campaign! Over 100 artists have contributed a combination of new, unheard, exclusive and archival tracks which you can purchase via the EarthPercent Bandcamp page.
Sales of these tracks contribute to the charity’s Grantmaking Fund, which supports organisations doing vital work to help tackle the climate emergency.
Head to the EarthPercent Bandcamp account to buy our track and help support this important cause. Each track is only available for a limited time, so act quick!
#EarthPercentEarthDay #NOMUSICONADEADPLANET
I wrote a new pamphlet for Stone Club titled London Stone.
The pamphlet includes my field notes from the one time I managed to get close to the stone from inside the building that houses it. Printed alongside photographs that link William Blake, Ithell Colquhoun, The Druid Order, Nicholas Hawksmoor, Londons lost rivers and WHSmith. Copies are limited and will not be reprinted.
“The first ever booklet from the Stone Club is available now.
In the first ever Stone Club: Fieldnotes pamphlet, Matthew Shaw (member no: 00) takes us on a journey to London Stone.
Illustrated with Matthew’s beautiful black & white photographs this is a Stone Club classic and will not be reprinted. Once they’re gone they’re gone!”
Piano compositions made over a weeks residency at Hawkwood from October 4th to the 8th 2021.
Composed and produced by Matthew Shaw
For more information abut Hawkwood and their artist residencies please visit Hawkwood
The Folk Archive:
A Haunt of Owls
A collection of musings on owls through poetry, music, field recordings and essays.
With words music and spoken word by Ithell Colquhoun, George MacBeth, Penny MacBeth, Kareni Lowes, Matthew Shaw, C.C.Vyvyan, Rupert White, and the owls of Ashridge, Greenbottom and Hawkwood.
A Table of Contents
Available to listen to now on Resonance Extra is A Table of Contents by Dominic J. Jaeckle, Polly Barton, Mason Lindahl & Matthew Shaw.
Holding Hands In The Dark
‘Holding Hands In The Dark,’ comes as a 2 CD, 6 panel softpack designed by Maria Makripoulias. The first 300 copies also include4 specially-designed postage stamps.
Featuring new tracks by Snowdrops, Matthew Shaw, The Leaf Library, D Rothon, Franck Alba, Mark Fry, Hilary Robinson, Angèle David-Guillou, Mücha, Glen Johnson, Oliver Cherer, Statues In Fog
‘Holding Hands In The Dark’ is available from the Second Language Bandcamp page
Crowlink EP
Today, Shirley Collins is pleased to release a new EP, Crowlink.
The EP is named after a particular hamlet in the Seven Sisters (a series of undulating hills on the Sussex coast) with a pathway that overlooks the English Channel which is one of Shirley’s favourite places to be.
Picking up from Heart’s Ease’s finale, the Crowlink EP is a collection of songs sung by Shirley Collins and featuring field recordings from the edge of the cliffs at Crowlink, Firle Church and Etchingham recorded by Matthew Shaw. Shaw also produced the EP and played additional instrumentation across the EP’s five songs.
Alongside the Crowlink announcement, Shirley Collins shares “My Sailor Boy” from the EP, which finds Shirley singing over a moody, atmospheric fusion of sounds and demonstrates a more experimental side to the folk veteran. Elsewhere on the EP, Ossian Brown’s hurdy-gurdy rings through on “The Rose and the Briar” and the artwork is by author, painter, film maker & provocateur Brian Catling.
Crowlink at Charleston
Sold Out
We are pleased to announce that the concert will now take place on the outdoor stage at Charleston (subject to weather). Please note that this space is uncovered and in the open air, so please dress accordingly.
If you have tickets and are planning not to come along please do let us know, at the earliest opportunity, as we'd love to give others the opportunity to see this unique event.
A bus will leave Lewes station for Charleston at 6pm and return at 10pm. Places are limited so please book in advance by emailing events@charleston.org.uk. Tickets are £5 return.
Arrive from 6pm to explore the unique sound installation in the garden by sound artist Matthew Shaw features recorded words and poetry from Shirley Collins and Brian Catling, and many more luminaires. The performances starts at 7.30
Journey with us from Firle Church as we walk up over the Downs to the edge of the cliff at Crowlink 1.916. Looking out to sea, listening to the song of the skylarks, the wind whipping through the bent over trees, the waves crashing against the white cliffs, the pull of the tide across chalk, shingle and stone.
Shirley Collins leads us with her recital of the English folk songs collected over seventy years. With poetry from Brian Catling and Matthew Shaw and fragments of letters, diaries and prose from Virgina Woolf, Vanessa Bell and the Bloomsbury group in Sussex.
These poems and extracted writings voiced in order of appearance by by Shirley Collins, Hannah Peel, Jeremy Deller, Lally MacBeth, Benjamin Zephaniah, Heather Leigh, Laura Barton, Zakia Sewell, Peter Owen Jones, Amy Grantham, Matthew Shaw, Mark Fry, Sam Lee & Virginia Woolf.
All music performed by Matthew Shaw with special guests Ossian Brown on hurdy-gurdy and Penny MacBeth on recorders.
The garden sound installation will be on site for a further week following the Shirley Collins events.
Please be aware the gardens can accommodate only a limited capacity. Those wishing to promenade the grounds may experience a wait to allow the previous group to exit the gardens.
The café will be open, serving delicious Italian street food from Caccia & Tails, or feel free to bring a picnic to eat in the centenary gardens/by the pond.
The galleries will be open and free to ticket holders, subject to capacity, with exhibitions by Nina Hamnett & Lisa Brice.
Keep an eye on the facebook book page for further updates:
31st July 1st August
We are looking forward to seeing you at this unique event in the heart of the downs.
And finally...
Shirley will be in conversation with Stewart Lee on Wednesday 7 July at 7pm, giving a first-hand account of an extraordinary life. For more information and to book
Once the event is sold out/if you need to resell your ticket:
We would strongly recommend that if you are purchasing re-sell tickets that you buy through SEE tickets re-sell option than from a person directly. If you are buying re-sell physical tickets, previously bought at Resident record shop, send through an image to Melting Vinyl on messenger or an email of the tickets for them to confirm they are genuine (ticketing@meltingvinyl.co.uk). If you are unable to attend and have bought tickets through Charleston please get in touch with the box office directly.
Verse & Chorus
Listen & download here
An exquisite corpse of an "I” played out in a multiplicity of voices, VERSE & CHORUS is an experimental act of collaborative reworking that quilts cuts from two manuscripts into an imagined third object (collaging verses from Nadia de Vries' and Dominic Jaeckle's forthcoming poetry collections with Dostoyevsky Wannabe, respectively I FAILED TO SWOON and 36 EXPOSURES). Scored by found sounds, borrowed songs and original music from Matthew Shaw, Mark Lanegan and Duke Garwood, VERSE & CHORUS carries readings from Nadia de Vries; Cíntia Gil; Diamanda La Berge Dramm; Mark Lanegan; Stanley Schtinter; Becket Flannery; and Vilde Valerie Bjerke Torset in an exchange of ideas, images and allusions.
The Electric Muse Revisited
Out now is The Electic Muse Revisited, with a section on Crowlink, the piece of music by Shirley Collins, Matthew Shaw & Ossian Brown.
First published in 1975, at the height of the folk-rock boom, the critically acclaimed Electric Muse chronicled the story of the folk movement, from roots to revival, featuring new interviews and photographs, this edition brings the fascinating narrative up to date.
Buy your copy here
There is an accompanying 61-track, 4-CD set which explores the experimental side of the British folk scene. This boxset brings together an extraordinary cast of great musicians for the first time, and tells the story of how British traditional music has been re-worked with influences not just from rock but from punk, rap, electronica, big band brass, and sounds and styles from around the world.
The first thre tracks on the album are by Shirley.
Sweet Greens and Blues 1964 (home recording) - Shirley Collins and Davy Graham
Gilderoy - Shirley and Dolly Collins
Crowlink - Shirley Collins
It’s in all good record shops and can also be ordered online here
Masstransfer: A Zinethology
There is a chapter in the new Masstransfer book by Ryan Andreson, which has just been published. “Take an indie trip through 25 years of dreampop, shoegaze, post-rock, ambient and electronic music with Ryan Anderson - musician and former editor of the music zine Masstransfer.”
Buy your copy here
Hotel #7
Shipping from today, with five poems from Matthew Shaw within, ‘Shell ... ‘Found’ ...‘Spells’ ... ‘Time’ ... Order here
Crowlink 0.5
Crowlink 0.5 a film and installation will appear with Shirley Collins and the Lodestar Band as part of the Barbican event on Sunday 23rd May.
Directed by Grant Gee, with sound installation by Matthew Shaw, poetry by Brian Catling, featuing the voices of Shirley Collins, Hannah Peel, Benjamin Zephaniah, Heather Leigh, Laura Barton, Lally MacBeth, Matthew Shaw, & Zakia Sewell. Hurdy gurdy by Ossian Brown.
Atmosphere of Mona
Audiobook
Released today is the audio book for Atmospbere of Mona, with recordings from the places I visited and wrote about in the book. The sounds of Anglesey, West Penwith, the Dorset Coast, the Sussex Coast and the Cheshire countryside
Shipping Forecast
by Dominic James Jaeckle & Diamanda La Berge Dramm & Matthew Shaw
Listen & download here
A utility amongst the swallows is their music;
they use it to avoid collision.
John Cage,
36 Mesostics RE: and not RE: Duchamp (1978)
Grounded in a book that collects a roll-of-film’s worth of co-dependent photographs and prose-poems by Hoagy Houghton and Dominic Jaeckle (36 Exposures, forthcoming from Dostoyevsky Wannabe), Shipping Forecast is a quilt of first- and second-hand reticulated reflections and ratiocinations—a ‘disembodied voice-over’ for a set of absent images, memories and other assorted totem poles—read and recorded by Diamanda La Berge Dramm (the anchor) and sunk in a veritable garden of noises, drones, field recordings and found sounds by Matthew Shaw (the ocean).
A new article about Matthew Shaw by Ryan Anderson on his Sonixcursions website. Read the full piece here
Shipping Forecast
Monday 22nd February 2021 18:00 - 20:40 GMT
A utility amongst the swallows is their music; they use it to avoid collision.
– John Cage, 36 Mesostics RE: and not RE: Duchamp (1978)
Anchored in a book that collects a roll-of-film’s worth of co-dependent photographs and prose-poems by Hoagy Houghton and Dominic Jaeckle (36 Exposures, forthcoming from Dostoyevsky Wannabe), Shipping Forecast is a quilt of first- and second-hand reticulated reflections and ratiocinations—a ‘disembodied voice-over’ for a set of absent images, memories and other assorted totem poles—read and recorded by Diamanda La Berge Dramm and sunk in a veritable garden of noises, drones, field recordings and found sounds by Matthew Shaw.
Hotel #7
Hotel magazine are publishing five new poems by me in their next issue, accompanied by photographs.
Hotel #7 Includes
Adrian Bridget, , Antonio Tabucchi, translated by Elizabeth Harris, Helena Gomà, Nadia de Vries, Josef Winkler, translated by Adrian Nathan West, Greg Tate, Helen Cammock, Frederic Tuten & Andrzej Žuławski, Lily Hackett, Percival Everett, Alisha Dietzman, Joan Brossa, translated by Cameron Griffiths, Manuela Moser, Sam Riviere, Yasmine Seale, Jeffrey Vallance, Raul Guerrero, Mark Lanegan, Rebecca Jagoe, Daniel Pellizzari, translated by Rahul Bery, Matthew Shaw, Sam Buchan Watts, Nathan Salsburg, Willard Watson, Bessie Jones, Big Bill Broonzy, Texas Gladden, Margaret Barry & Eddie Sanger, Hélène Gaudy, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman, Stephen Watts, David Grubbs, & Luc Sante
More details and order
Nachtmusik
Matthew Shaw returns to Glass Modern, after working with Shirley Collins on one of the albums of 2020, with an instrumental tribute to Florian Schneider and Kraftwerk.
Pre order Here
Journey To Nutopia
Produced by The Cockpit as part of Cockpit Broadcast
Sunday January 31st 2021, 7pm LIVE ONLINE via Zoom, Tkts: £2
Book here
Montez Press Radio
A piece I have contributed music to will be broadcast at 12pm on January 29th; New York time.
An exquisite corpse of an "I” played out in a multiplicity of voices, "Verse & Chorus" is an experimental act of constellation and collaborative reworking that quilts cuts from two manuscripts into an imagined third object (collaging verses from Nadia de Vries' I FAILED TO SWOON and Dominic Jaeckle's 36 EXPOSURES; both forthcoming from Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2021). Scored by found sounds, borrowed songs and original music from Matthew Shaw (of Tex La Homa, the Pop Group and Shirley Collins fame), "Verse & Chorus" carries readings from Nadia de Vries; Cíntia Gil; Diamanda La Berge Dramm; Mark Lanegan; Stanley Schtinter; Becket Flannery; and Vilde Valerie Bjerke Torset (in order of appearance) in an exchange of ideas, images and allusions.
Dominic Jaeckle is a writer and editor. Jaeckle curates and collates the irregular magazine Hotel; and runs a minor publisher of esoterica and experimental literatures, Tenement Press.
Nadia de Vries is a poet and essayist from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is the author of the critical memoir Kleinzeer (Uitgeverij Pluim, 2019) and the poetry collection Dark Hour (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2018). Her second collection, I Failed to Swoon, is forthcoming with Dostoyevsky Wannabe in 2021. She is currently working on her first novel.
More detals here
Wyrd Britain
I have written this months 3 Wyrd things article for Wyrd Britain. I was invited to write about three oddly, wonderfully, weirdly British things that have influenced my work. I chose Shirley Collins, Ithell Colquhoun & Doctor Who. You can read why here
Shadows and Reflections
Today Caught by the River have published my Shadows and Reflections for 2020. You can see the piece on their website here
Hotel
Many thanks to Hotel for publising a selection of verse and images from Atmosphere of Mona today on their website. you can view here
Caught by the River
An exclusive extract from Matthew Shaw’s upcoming prose poetic / photographical ode to the annual cycle of seasons — with an accompanying track written and performed by Shaw and Mark Fry.
My Wakeup Call with Dr. Mark Goulston
In this episode I speak with poet, filmmaker, musician and author of "Atmosphere of Mona," Matthew Shaw, about his wakeup in needing to observe, understand and then using multiple media to share it with the world.