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Shake

admin — Sat, 04 May 2013 19:51:59 +0000

Here’s a track I’ve been working on, a cross between dubstep & drum’n'bass (must be drumstep?). It’s a work in progress at the moment, so may emerge later in a different form…

I hope you enjoy listening listening to it. Feel free to leave a comment in the player if you’re into Soundcloud…

Soller Tramrider – Single Shot Film

admin — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:42:29 +0000

Here’s a single shot film experiment made in Soller, Majorca. The film captures the tram journey from the Port de Sóller travelling around the bay and into the town of Sóller.

The playback speed of the recorded footage was increased 400%, with the recorded sound transformed into an ambient soundscape using reverb and delay, building to a crescendo.

Dungeness

admin — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:10:49 +0000

Dungeness is an extreme landscape on the south coast of England. Part nature reserve, part fishing community, and home to a steam railway and a nuclear power station. I’ve wanted to visit for years, and to use footage of the area in a film.

The film aims to explore the juxtaposition of environments at Dungeness, showing different usages of land, and the effect of man in a natural environment.

So fast forward to a blustery, snowy and freezing cold April and I find myself there with my camera. What you see here is the result. I hope I have captured the mood of this barren, isolated, and intriguing landscape…

Dungeness from Matthew Greasley on Vimeo.

X5 – Cambridge to Bedford Stop Motion Video

admin — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:52:53 +0000

I’ve recently been spending a lot of time travelling between Bedford and Cambridge on the X5. At the same time, I’ve been playing with an iPad app called iStopMotion (from Boinx). Put them both together and this is what you get…

In making this I filmed the journey from Cambridge to Bedford from both sides of the coach (not on the same day). The resulting footage was then re-assembled in Adobe Premiere, sided by side, and one time-stretched to even up the lengths . The film was completed with the addition of a music track I created for the movie, improvised within Ableton Live.

And so here’s the audio track:

Website Commission – Lavender Fields Emporium

admin — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:58:58 +0000

Lavender Fields are a Yorkshire-based events company that have recently expanded and opened a retail outlet & tea room in Keighley, West Yorkshire. I was commissioned to develop a new site for them using the WordPress framework, with the ability to integrate an E-commerce facility as the business and website expands…

Required was a site that was free of clutter and easy to navigate, allowing the end user to update as and when necessary. I’ve worked closely with Lavender Fields to integrate the site effectively into their marketing strategy. An important requirement of the site was to efficiently inform customers of events held by Lavender Fields. This was achieved through scheduled updates of posts fed via RSS to an email service.

Some demo tracks…

admin — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:00:28 +0000

Here’s a few tracks that I’ve been working on recently…

Games Without Frontiers is an update of a remix I created a few years ago. Once Again is an update on a track recorded with the singer songwriter Kay Elizabeth around 5 years ago. Bombs is a track using a UK government anti-terrorist recording as it’s inspiration.

Enjoy…

Murder & Mutilation…

admin — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:57:54 +0000

Here’s a little something made to check out the video sequencing in Ableton Live. All the sound is from the original video clips, taken from a Troma film and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Enjoy!

Glorious

admin — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:02:48 +0000

An experimental track made with the ‘Weird Sound Generator’ and an analogue drum synth. The choir was found in a monastery in Majorca…

Feather Hammer (2012)

admin — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 19:10:15 +0000

Feather Hammer was an audio visual project with composer and producer Leah Kardos, based on her album of the same name released through bigo & twigetti

Through a series of improvised rehearsals we created a performance featuring live music and improvised visual content. Performances were held at venues including The Wilmington Arms, the Sssh! Festival, Bedford Esquires, and a performance at the National Portrait Gallery.

The visual improvisations were created using Modul8 (by Garagecube) combined with MIDI control (Akai APC40) to manipulate the video footage in real time. Below are some demo videos created which capture the essence of the process.

Concentrate, You
Music by Leah Kardos
Video by Matthew Greasley

Core
Music by Leah Kardos
Video by Matthew Greasley

The Waiting
Music by Leah Kardos
Video by Matthew Greasley

Three Gigs

admin — Thu, 24 May 2012 10:54:07 +0000

Saturday 16th June – Holy Molys @ Esquires, Bedford

This will be the final performance of the Feather Hammer project with Leah Kardos and will also feature material from the My Lithium & Me project. As well as VJing with Leah I will also be performing an audio-visual DJ set to round off the evening.

Saturday 21st July, The Picturedrome, Northampton

This gig is in aid of the charity Always A Chance and will feature me VJing alongside An Army of Lights, in The Picturedrome, Northampton, a great little venue converted from an old cinema…

Friday 27th July, South Bank Arts Centre, Bedford

Kain are a band with a unique mix of Grunge, Classic and Stoner Rock, Metal and Thrash but with a sound wholly their own. I will be VJing alongside Kain for the first time as part of the Bedfringe Festival. This should be an interesting collaboration!