Music made using custom-built cracked electrical
devices (including fly catchers, light bulbs, toys, dimmers and
strobes), often with a visual element, to create electromagnetic
signals that are rendered into sound, drawing on the immediate
situation/radio space of the performance.
Released June 10, 2024
Solo trumpet. LP 2024.
CD publication of 2008 solo trumpet recording.
John Butcher - saxophones
Angharad Davies - violin
Matt Davis - trumpet
Dominic Lash - double bass
Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga - zither
Recorded at Cafe Oto 2017
Engineered by Shaun Crook
Mixed and Mastered by John Butcher
EBR007
2002
"The music is so rare and so calm, so deliberate and yet unpredictable in the evolution of its textures and events, including the organically arising passages of near-silence, that it might be the sacred music of an unknown creed, the state music of a eutopia, the dance music of an unknown species."
Stuart Broomer
Double Bass – Dominic Lash
Guitar, Electronics [Amplifier] – Matthew Grigg
Trumpet – Matt Davis
Mixed By, Mastered By – Matthew Grigg
Recorded live at Cafe Kino, Bristol
2017
tape cassette
Side A - Ghost (25 mins)
Side B - Light (25 mins)
Electromagnetics, light bulbs,
fly catcher, radios.
Recorded straight to tape, no edits.
Cornwall, UK. 2012
Matt Davis / Phil Durrant / Mark Wastell (2014)
(confront collectors series ccs 24)
Matt Davis & Mark Wastell
Derby 11.05.2002 / Liverpool 10.05.2002 (2011)
(confront collectors series ccs 16)
Old School series
James Tenney
CD zkr0010
Distributed by Broken Silence
1| Munkisi Munkondi 05:04
2| Nzambi Ia Lufua 02:43
3| Scapegoat 04:30
4| Fairground Muscle Twitcher 02:34
5| Bia Mintatu 06:53
6| The Avalanche 04:19
zeitkratzer
directed by Reinhold Friedl
|| Frank Gratkowski < clarinets || Matt Davis < trumpet || Hilary Jeffery < trombone|| Reinhold Friedl < piano || Rhodri Davies < harp || Maurice de Martin < drums, percussion || Burkhard Schlothauer < violin || Anton Lukoszevieze < violoncello || Ulrich Phillipp < double bass || Ralf Meinz < sound ||
rehearsals and mixing in collaboration with William Bennett [WHITEHOUSE]
All music recorded at Festival Les Musiques GMEM Marseille, France, May 14, 2009
CD zkr0007
matt davis - trumpet & field recordings
matt milton - violin
bechir saade - bass clarinet & flute
Another Timbre at12
2008
rhodri davies - harp
matt davis - trumpet & electronics
samantha rebello - flute
bechir saade - bass clarinet
Another Timbre at04
2007
Matt Davis - field recordings, electronics, trumpet
Phil Durrant - software synths and treatments
Mark Wastell - amplified textures
Erstwhile 032
2003
matt davis - trumpet
rosa muñoz - dance
produced by Liba Villavechia, Barcelona, Spain.
Field CDR
2002
Broken Consort
Matt Davis
Rhodri Davies
Mark Wastel
Quakebasket CD 24
2005
Core Anode
(Meenna, meenna-332) (Japan) (CD)
1. 19th September 2002, Kid Ailack Art Hall, Tokyo (20:41)
2. 14th July 2006, Stubnitz, Copenhagen (27:00)
3. 15th December 2006, ICA Theatre, London (22:22)
‘seen’
matt davis - field recordings
ben lancaster - electronics/synthesisers
Field CDR
2004
joel stern: concrete sound, feedback, electronics
matt davis: trumpet, elecronics
l'innomable
2003
‘Ura’
Ruth Barberán - trumpet
Matt Davis - trumpet
Alfredo Costa Monteiro -accordion
Creative Sources cs006
2002