[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":59},["ShallowReactive",2],{"projectsix-hours-west-2024":3},{"slug":4,"title":5,"year":6,"content":7,"image":8,"categories":10,"featured":39,"audio":40,"video":41,"media":42},"six-hours-west-2024","six hours west  ",2024,"\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwp.kaffematthews.net\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2026\u002F08\u002FScreenshot-2026-08-25-at-11.53.52.png\" data-project-media-index=\"0\">\n\u003Cp>Alchemical electronics, All Colours of Noise aka the Ripley, feeding re-feeding and feedbacking unknown and evolving audio spirals through Caput Draconis. Ouroboros. The tiniest of gestures, the wildest of outcomes. It plays with Matthews, she playing back, live with the crowd and the space through four channels of fat PA inc subs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp class=\"has-iframe\" data-project-media-index=\"1\">\u003Ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fw.soundcloud.com\u002Fplayer\u002F?url=https%3A\u002F\u002Fapi.soundcloud.com\u002Ftracks\u002Fsoundcloud%253Atracks%253A2269634762&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-project-media-index=\"1\">\u003C\u002Fiframe>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Six hours west and north on a fast train direct from Augsburg. North Rhine-Westphalia is further than I thought. Germany is huge. When the trains run as they should, they make for perfect traveling.  I am headphone immersed in fine tuning the corners of zones and audio files for the vast map growing for the soon to launch \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwp.kaffematthews.net\u002Fproject\u002Fcosmopoling-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003Cem>cosmopoling\u003C\u002Fem> \u003C\u002Fa> sonic bike opera the entire journey.  Emerging blinking into the evening light of Dortmund – pre World War II one of Germany’s most important coal and steel centres so it was bombed to pretty much nothing with 98% of its inner city destroyed – I am mute and gazing. Later on, strolling around in the hot summer air to land,  I find small friendly grocers, bars, take-aways, shisha shops and shops largely run by Turkish, Syrians, Poles, a mix of languages flying with little German in evidence at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwp.kaffematthews.net\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2026\u002F08\u002FScreenshot-2026-08-25-at-20.02.31.png\" data-project-media-index=\"2\">\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next day I am sound checking in the cool of the huge dark theatre, prepared and professional sound engineers giving me the quad space for 45 minutes to play and see how things sound and move. Joy.  I have been in sonic bike land for the last month.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Six hours later,  the hot audience arrive, and of course the resonances are different and I am ‘performing’ and the audio world that leaps out is thrilling and dynamic, and we’re flying and some unknown how did they appear? sub thuds appear, feedback caught? almost early drum & bass days,  later calming to electric lines then oceanic waves surging back and forth in layers of their own changing rhythms. Of course not all this can be caught in a stereo recording, but here we have an impression of what happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwp.kaffematthews.net\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2026\u002F08\u002FScreenshot-2026-08-25-at-20.01.27.png\" data-project-media-index=\"3\">\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the other noisy female performers, the strong women standing and walking all over this city, the kind and professional care and support at every level from the brilliant blaues rauschen team, it’s a strengthening trip.  Many thanks you all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fblauesrauschen.de\u002Fblaues-rauschen-2025\u002Fen\u002Fdomicil-en\u002F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blaues rauschen festival,\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cbr>\nFestival für aktuelle Musik, Performance & Klangkunst\u003Cbr>\nopen systems e. 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