Matthew Grouse

“I’m a composer, originally from Yorkshire (UK), currently living in Copenhagen and studying in Aarhus (DK). I often work at an intersection between music for instruments and voices; electronic sound; text; video; and performance. Recently, my work has engaged with a re-contextualisation of everyday sounds, objects, spaces and automatic social and physical behaviours.

My pieces have involved, amongst other things, documentary techniques; self-reflexivity; repetition; quotidian speech and small-talk; custom-built, tactile electronic instruments like paintbrush synthesizers; staring contests; quotation and disfigurement of pre-existing music; instrumentalised light and scenography; YouTube comments sung by a choir and a virtual singer soloist; and spatialised orchestral music performed on top of mountains, in train stations, in swimming pools, and in remote communities in the Scottish Highlands.

I am a member of Aarhus-based composer-performer group Current Resonance, regularly contributing to meticulously curated intermedial events..”