matt (at) f-i-e-l-d.co.uk
Matt Davis has been active in improvised music since the mid 90’s, playing throughout Europe and Japan in many different collaborations and small and large group ensembles including Zeitkratzer and La Sospechosa dance company.
From 2003-2008 he directed ‘Field’ - a live art/performance project, which investigated notions of space and collaborated with geographer Doreen Massey, author of For Space.
His sound/music work includes acoustic improvisation (trumpet and preparations) alongside an electromagnetic set up: performance based improvisations that use custom-built cracked electrical devices, often with a visual element, to create electromagnetic fields that are rendered into sound, drawing on the immediate situation/radio space of the performance. These elements are explored, improvised, as spatial and material phenomena and for their dubious potential as natural/constructed feral musical elements.
He is currently based in Bristol where he regularly collaborates with, amongst others, Phil Minton, Luigi Marino and Matthew Grigg.
Regular groups include Nodosus (with Angharad Davies, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Dominic Lash and John Butcher) and a trio with Rachel Musson and Mark Sanders.