Matthew Shaw

Composer, musician, and artist Matthew Shaw has been releasing music since 2000 under his own name and as Tex La Homa, as well as with a variety of collaborations. As part of Sea Change Goes Online, we challenged him to create two short pieces with the Mute Synth 4.0.

He explains;

When It became clear that sea Change couldn’t take place in the physical world this year at first it was a real disappointment. Rarely a day goes by that Rupert and I aren’t on the phone coming up with ideas and suggestions of what else might work for the festival. Helping with High Cross House last year and playing in a version of The Pop Group was a unique experience, so how would it be possible to bring some of this to life using an online approach. Of course Rupert, Rough Trade Books and all of the artists and labels have gone beyond a simple live stream or one idea of what this could be, creating something truly festival like in a slightly surreal kind of way.

Here are two pieces of music I made this last couple of weeks that seemed right to be heard first and exclusively at Sea Change. Playing The Normal, Fad Gadget and Silicon Teens the same week has definitely rubbed off in the sound of these tracks. Not only did the early Mute 7”s get into my head, to make things more interesting I decided to create the music using only the Mute 4.0 synth. So here they are, two tracks from myself and the Mute 4.0

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Part One

Part Two

Mute 4.0 Synth
The new Mute / Dirty Electronics MUTE 4.0 SYNTH is a synth with inputs, a digital wavetable synthesiser, an analogue noise circuit, and programmable sequencer. These features can all be combined in an environment to experiment with sound. Being hand-held, battery-powered and with headphone and line out, the synth is ideal for music making on the move as well as in the studio. At a turn of a knob and press of a button, sequences, control voltages, and cut-up loops can be programmed; or listen to the Voltage Collection by Dirty Electronics.