Product Description

This album constitutes the entire musical part of a large-scale live audiovisual performance piece based around the actions and decisions of whistleblower Edward Snowden, with the visuals included as downloadable content. Matthew Collings is a Scotland-based composer who collaborates regularly with artists from all kinds of fields including Dag Rosenqvist from Jasper, TX and Denovali labelmate Talvihorros. He s responsible for several installations using custom-made software, which have been exhibited at Burning Man Festival in San Francisco and Glasgow s Centre for Contemporary Arts. His work for film includes a specially-commissioned live score for Dziga Vertov s 1929 silent classic, The Man with the Movie Camera, and an invitation to work on The Invisibles, a commission from Amnesty International.

Review

By turns politically muscular and poignantly nuanced, Collings excellent piece is a heartening reminder of the quality of new music being created and performed in Scotland today. --The Herald
A mix of organic instruments and processed tones, this album was pretty engrossing from the first listen. --Ghetto Blaster
Full of intricate details. --Headphone Commute