| Description | Matthews discusses her background and musical beginnings, her early influences from
the Fabulous Dirt Sisters to John Zorn. She relates the development of her embodied
playing technique from a trip to Senegal. Discusses early sound engineering work in a
field where she was the only woman and the steep technological learning curve that
included happy accidents. Reintroduction into her practice of the violin, her time at
Dartington College of the Arts and STEIM where she developed her practice to include
performing with midi violin and how the technology changed her playing technique, her
desires to extend gesture to enable listening rather than the audience focusing on the
visual aspects of her performance. Discusses performative practice, identity as
musician/composer, beginnings of the Lappettites and her move into sound installation.
Discusses the Her Noise commission in 2002 to make the Sonic Bed. see alsoUNEDITED
MINI DV INTERVIEW. INTERVIEWED BY IRENE REVELL & EMMA HEDDITCH |