KAFFE MATTHEWS.                                                                                                   curriculum vitae

 

Formal Education

1990-1991                  Master of Art, Music Technology, (Distinction).  University of York, UK.

1980-1983                  BSc Honours, Zoology. University of Nottingham, UK.

 

Significant Solo Commissions                     regularly makes live sound works all over the world including :-

2008

“Sonic_Bed_Marfa”  with 12 channel work from “cactal ”: The Ballroom Sessions, Marfa, Texas, USA.

“ men being butterflies”  work for GRM acousmonium, PRESENCES électronique, Salle Olivier Messiaen, Paris.

“ the Marvelo Project”     work for GPS linked audio systems, bicycles, local kids, Folkestone Sculpture Triennial.

 

2007

“ Sonic Bench_Mexico” concrete Sonic Bench, Transitio-Int.MX-02, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City.

“ Viewing_1” for roaming wireless headphones,the World Financial Plaza, New York, a Roulette commission.

“ Laura”  for headphones and walking a route, Loughborough town centre, a Radar commission.

“ Sonic Bed_Scotland”          with 12 channel work “sleeping song”, Le Weekend, Tolbooth, Stirling, Scotland.

“ Body Abiding” with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Jonathan Harvey, City Halls, Glasgow, Scotland.

“ Sonic Bed_Quebec”   with 12 channel work “melt inevitable”, Avatar, Le Mois Multi, Quebec City, Canada.

             

2006

“ Sonic Bed _Taipei” with 12 channel “Bending”, ETAT, Xingshin Hall, Digital Arts Festival, Taipei, Taiwan.

“ Sonic Bed_Shanghai with 12 channel work, “Horn” British Council, Xuhui Art Museum, Shanghai, China.

 

2005

“ Sonic Bed_London ”       with 12 channel “Bend”, Her Noise, South London Gallery, London.

“ This is for you”           text and chaise longue at Playing John Cage, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK.

“ Three Crosses of Queensbridge Rd”           bicycles+radios, Sounds Like Drawing, Drawing Room, London.

“ Environmental cleaning moments”    installation, deSchone Kunsten galerie, Haarlem, The Netherlands.

“ No-one here but us chickens” for 8 instrumentalists, Sound of Heavan+Earth, TATE Modern, London.

 

2004

“ Snow over Feline, Sometimes Tiny” 4 day live installation, cellar & theremin. Transmediale Festival, Berlin.

“ Anyware”             Livecast. London to 11 countries & the Kitchen, New Sound New York Festival, New York.

“ Played Bare”     quad performance for wooden hall+theremin. Sonic Arts Network Commission. Uni.Leicester.

 

2003

“ dashes from a small room”    for headphones, glass chamber& theremin.The Moderns, Castello di Rivoli, Turin.

“ Radio Cycle 101.4FM”     7 day Radio Station + works for sonic cyclists. Interference Public Art, London.

“ Out with the Cold”       quad performance for wooden loft & theremin. Experimental Intermedia, New York.

 

2002                                                                                                         

“ drop time” for Red Chair and travelling train resonances. Reading Station,Reading. City Stages commission.

“ pan* not pon* ” 12hrs live for Radio. AVATAR/An Excavation sonoré  commission. Québec City, Canada.

“ 23’ 40” performance, plastic room + theremin. The Baltic Arts Centre, Gateshead. BBC Radio3 commission.

“ wap side up” for headphones, gallery-studio telephone processing. A GAIN commission, Apex Art, New York.

 

2001.

“ pink house”  performance, marble hall & theremin. Museum of Contemporary Art Serralves, Porto, Portugal.

“ Concerto for Kaffe Matthews & dry ice”  performance & dry ice. High Zero Festival commission, Baltimore.

 

2000

“ located b”            work for foyer. Sonic Boom exhibition, curator David Toop. The Hayward Gallery, London.

“ located”             work for headphones. A VOLUME commission. PS1, Queens, New York.

” Red Chair”  with “de cardiac bass”, DON’T WORRY, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital Commission, London.

“ take a guide”  work for Red Chair from chauffeuress Limo journey, Beckett Time Fest, Tramway, Glasgow.

 

1999

“ absolute zero” 6 channelled live installation,water,10ft ice figures,dancers.The Dome, Brighton Arts Festival.

“ call me”  8hr performance, violin, telephone, caller & 12 city telephone boxes. Metronom Gallery, Barcelona.

 

1998

“ the living room” 12hr live installation, Stoke Newington Festival commission, Builders Merchants, London.

“ for doris whincopp” for sonic armchair. Pensioners musical box, processing. Norwich Arts Centre, Norfolk.

1997

“ squarespout”   installation, 25 channels.Trafalgar Sq.fountains to LYD-Galleri, under City Sq., Copenhagen.

“Sonic Armchair” playing “Aral”, flying Boeing 737+Glaswegian pensioner PlacemadeMobile,London & Glasgow.

 

Significant Collaborations.             With Shri and live with Christian Fennesz, Pan-Sonic, Eliane Radique, agf, Sachiko M, Ikue Mori, Granular Synthesis, Ryoko Kuwajima, Zeena Parkins, David Muth, Andy Moor as well as: -

2007               Sleeping Beauty & friends Karen Kilimnik Ballet, , New PlayersTheatre,London, made & performed score.

2005    Merce Cunningham Dance Co, John Paul Jones, Philip Selway, Steve Montague, Barbican theatre, London.

Sounding Architecture + Lynn Cox + vision impaired adults. Directed the making and performance of Head in a Sauna, Feet in a Cloud,  8 channel work, Serpentine Gallery Pavilion,by Siza & de Moura, London.

2004    George Lewis Ensemble, Baden-Baden, SWR2, Neue Music, Germany.

Weightless Animals. Online sonic space cartoons & 12” picture disk .2 yr NASA research.BAFTA award.

2003    Lifting Concrete Lightly. Directed 3 hour work for MIMEO. Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, Oscar Niemeyer.

            Data Knitting. perf+Sadie Plant, Brian Duffy.DEAF, Dutch Electronic Arts Fest 2003, V2, Rotterdam.

2002    The Lappetites, with “Desk to the water cooler”.  live proposals for opera. The Kitchen, New York City.

2001             Drop,Hop,Drone,Scratch,Slide & A for Anythinglive Marina Rosenfeld, Whitney Museum, New York City.

            Rothko slab & inbetween.  24 hr continuous performance, MIMEO. Musique D’action Festival, Nancy.

2000    Fiber Jellies.Optically interlinked perf+Nicolas Collins, Alvin Lucier, Scanner, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany.

1999    Syzygy.                       Bruce Gilchrist, Jo Joelson, kites & weather,.‘weather made’. Sanda Island, Scotand

            Wired in the outback. Taut wires, red rocks, uplinking, 1 month + Dr. Alan Lamb, W.Australian desert.

1998    Mobile Home. Virtual living space , short film , Mandy McIntosh.  A Sonic Arts Network commission.

1997    The Suit.     Live with Hayley Newman. Galleria 1997. Oszi Festival ,Budapest. 

1996    Behind the Gap. Live processes, drums+violin,Charles Hayward.LMC fest comm., Conway Hall, London.

                     Conduction. Butch Morris. Improvising Orchestra. UK Tour ,Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.

1995    The Brood.            Director Susan Stenger. Live performance Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.

1994             Voiceover.   interactive violin & image projection+Simon Biggs. Trumans Brewery, Brick Lane, London.

1993    HOPE.          MIDI violin score, live+ text. Desperate Optimists. Barclays New Stages Award.  London.

 

Significant posts held.

May 2007                     Panel, commissions for CyberSonica Festival, Kinetica Gallery, London.

February 2006              Honorary Professor of Music, Shanghai Music Conservatory, China.

January 2006            Director of music for bodies, www.musicforbodies.net, terrestrial and virtual research into new ways of making and listening to music, London.

August 2005                Director of Vision Machine, Audio-film collective, London.

May-Sept 2003             Teacher. Sound to music composition, Haggerston School for Girls,Hackney, London

May-Sept 2003.             Teacher. Sound to music composition, Central School for Girls, Bow, London .

2002-2006                      Director & founder field61’. Promotes monthly Live Digital Music events,London E8 +Resonance Radio,104.4FM.

2001 to present Artistic advisor to STEIM, (electronic music studios).  Amsterdam, NL.

2001                            Jury ,  Digital Musics,  Prix Ars Electronica,  Linz,  Austria.

1998 -2000                 Visiting tutor.  Live electronic techniques. Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London,

1997                            Director, London Musicians’ Collective (LMC), London, UK.

1997 to present.            Director+founder of Annette Works label, studio making electronic music from acoustic sound via live exploitation of digital gadgets. 6 solo cd releases &  12” pic disk. 

1994 -1996                 Director, Sonic Arts  Network, London, UK

1991 –1996                           Lecturer, introduced Performance Technology course, Dartington College of Arts, UK.

1995                            ‘New Digital Instruments’ panel. Hypermusic Symposium, MIT conference,QEH London.  

1994                            Director, Computer Music Composition course. Dartington Int. Summer school, Devon.

 

Solo international residencies and awards.

September 2008    Artist in Residence, The Headlands, Sacramento, California.

February 2008              Artist in Residence, GRM, (Groupe Recherche Musicale), Maison Radio, Paris 16eme, France

May 2007                     Artist in residence, the Tolbooth, Stirling, Scotland.

February 2007              Artist in residence, Avatar, Nom de la Chose, Quebec City.

May 2006                     Award of Distinction, Digital Musics, ARS Electronica 2006, Sonic Bed_London.

Sept 2005-06              NESTA Dreamtime Fellowship,research “Music for  Bodies”. www.musicforbodies.net

April 2005                   Artist in residence, TOON Festival, Haarlem, Netherlands.

November 2004    BAFTA Scotland for www.weightlessanimals.com

December 2003    Artist in residence, directing new Lappetites project, STEIM, Amsterdam.

November 2002    Artist in residence , researching live sampling a room. AVATAR , Québec City.

April 2000                   Award of Honors,cd cécile, AWcd0003.  Ars Electronica, Prix 2000.

January 1996               Artist in residence, STEIM,Amsterdam.Working designing live sampling software LiSa. August 1995                Artist in residence,  5th  European Choreographic Forum. DISS, Devon.

May 1995                     Artist in residence, new live sampling instrument, LiSa. STEIM, Amsterdam.

January 1995               Artiste résidence, SONUS, Conserv.Superieure de la Musique Electronique, Lyon.                                                                                                                       

 

Selected Magazine Features.

2006            NEURAL:HACTIVISM, ELECTRONIC MUSIC, NEW MEDIA,http://neural.it.Interview Alessandro Ludovico.

2004            BOMB:ART AND CULTURE INTERVIEWS, New York. Issue no.89.  Interview by Anthony Huberman .

2003    The Wire. Issue no  September  ‘Kaffe Matthews’.  By Will Montgomery.

2002            Improvised Music from Japan. 2003-2003, IMJ 301.Tokyo. Kaffe  Matthews.

2001             Electronic Musician. San Francisco.  ‘Wired  up Women’. Feature.

1999            SKUG,Vienna . April.  ‘Kaffe Matthews’  by Heinrich Deisl.

1998    Revues et Corrigés.France.Iss.no.23. ‘Kaffe Matthews’  by Jerome Noetinger, traduit par Pascal Rivore.

1998    Fourth Door Review. Issue 3. ‘Cyber-fem on the edge of geo ambient’ by Oliver Lowenstein.

1997            MUTE,Digital Art . Winter, issue 7.   ‘Hub-Capped Diamond Studded Halo’ by Pauline van den Brouek.

1996    The Wire. Issue no December. ‘No Mean Fiddler’. By Clive Bell.

 

1995-now.  Seminars, workshops, lectures on her work and associated ideas to students at  :-

The University of Adelaide, Australia; The University of Maryland, Baltimore,USA;  Connection Barens, Kirkenees, Norway; Sound Studies MA, University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany; Bard College, MFA program, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA; Bath Spa University,UK;The CCA,Glasgow; De Montfort University, Leicester, UK: Camberwell College of Art,London; City University, London; The Guildhall, London; St Martins College of Art, London; The London College of Printing, London; RMIT, Melbourne, Australia; University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK; Oberlin Music Conservatory, Ohio, USA ; the Fine Art Academy, Oslo, Norway; Shanghai Music Conservatory; University of Western Australia, Perth, WA; University of Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA; University of Keele, Staffordshire, UK; Mixed Media Academy, Sydney, Australia; RPI, Troy, New York, USA.

 

1996 – present.  Has made Live Solo Sound works from events and places in : -

Adelaide, Alberquerque, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Austin, Baden-Baden, Baltimore, Barcelona, Belfast, Belgrade, Berlin, Bern, Basel, Bordeaux, Bologna, Boston, Bridlington, Brighton, Bristol, Brno, Brussels, Budapest, Bydgoscz, Cambridge US, Cambridge UK, Cardiff, Chicago, Cleveland, Cologne, Copenhagen, Dartington, Detroit, Dublin, Eindhoven, Ely, Exeter, Faenza, Florence, Frankfurt, Fribourg, Gdansk, Geneva, Ghent, Glasgow, Hamburg, Helsinki, Ho Chi Minh City, Houston, Huddersfield, Krakow, Leeds, Leicester, Lisbon, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Ljubliana, Lucerne, Macerata, Malmo, Manchester, Melbourne, Meldola, Mexico City, Montreal, Munster, Nantes, Nancy, Newcastle, New York, Nickelsdorf, Norwich, Nottingham, Nove Zamky, Novi Sad, Oberlin, Oxford, Oslo, Paris, Perth, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, Porto, Poznan, Prague, Quebec City, Reading, Riga, Rome, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Seattle, Setubal, Schio, Singapore, Szczecin, Sheffield, Springfield, St Etienne, St Louis, Stirling, Stockholm, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoriaville, Vienna, Vilnius, Warsaw, Washington, Wels, Winnipeg, Zurich.

 

 

Selected discography.

2007                mount magnet.            Multichannelled work for DVD, Optofonica, Amsterdam

2005                Before the Libretto. The Lappetites. Quecksilber10.CD + agf, Ryoko Kuwajima, Eliane Radigue.

      Labo MTL.         Oral06. CD  + Martin Tetreault and Leon Lo, Montreal.

2004                INTERFERENCE:Public Sound. Double cd. IPS151217072/4: + Radio cycle mp3 mappings.

Lifting Concrete Lightly:                MIMEO(director +producer). Triple CD. Serpentine Gallery.

                       Environmental Cleaning Moments.             12” vinyl. www.stichtingmixer.nl. catno.:M12.07/2

Vigilare                               for Broken Channel.            DVD.CocosolidC1T1. cat no.csc 009.

2003                cd eb and flo.             Double CD Annette  Works. cat no. AWcd0005-6

2002                in case of fire take the stairs.   CD & SachikoM, A.Neumann.Tokyo.www.japanimprov.com

                        Weather Made.               CD. Annette  Works. cat no. Awcdr01

2001                cd dd.                         CD. Annette works . cat. no.AWcd0004

                        Locks                           CD with guitarist Andy Moor(the Ex) www.unsounds.com.Cat. no 02U

                        still a slapper.                        Double 7”vinyl. www.stichtingmixer.nl  catno.:M7.01/2

The Hands of Carravaggio.   CD  MIMEO.  www.erstwhilerecords.com 

Dish.                              Film soundtrack, Film 4 short. http://www.filmfour.com/dish

2000                pointy stunt,               CD with Hayley Newman. Audioview.  www.lowlands.nl

                        ELECTRIC,                     Double CD MIMEO. GROB.LC10292

A Clean Slate.                Film soundtrack,Feature, Meloni Poole.A New Millennium Commission.

1999                cd cécile.              CD.Annette Works .AWcd0003

this many planes.            7” vinyl. SSS52, Pittsburgh, USA.

                        Rude Mechanic,Double CD. Piano 200.(Collaboration+Pan_Sonic,Rude Mechanic)Beaconsfield.

                        96 Rice Kids,Female of the Species            Double CD, Compilation, Law and Auder records.

1998                cd Bea.                         Annette Works             AWcd0002

1997                cd Ann.                         Annette Works             AWcd0001

                        how many planes are there in the sky at any one time?         CD,Resonance,vol6.Res.CD6.2.

1996                Pink Noir.                CD with David Toop.

1995                soft boiled.             CD ‘The Soundworks Exchange’. + Shinkansen+Goethe Institute .

1994                a text of violin music. Video. Simon Biggs.

 

 

Kaffe Matthews. AUDREY, Annette  Works, 17B Ellingfort Rd, London E8 4QN. UK.