London 1970
Working mainly in improvised and experimental music - using trumpet, electronics and field recordings.
‘Field’ is a live art/performance project, operating since 2003.
What
Music/sound as a tool for improvisation, not improvisation as a (musical) compositional tool.
Improvisation as the creation of a Situation: a space of un-predetermined encounter, occurrence, clash, dialogue and potential (to be experienced)….. for something to happen...... or not:
music/sound not as the projection of a reducible concept but a space (place) which can be entered conceptually, politically, critically or otherwise, depending on your needs or perspective.
Space as an ‘ongoing contemporaneity of crossing trajectories’*. Space as a non-hierarchical, always-being-made matrix of realities, thoughts, histories or concepts.
Improvisation as a composition of social relations - an activity as an antidote to, or rejection of, the subversion of human relations, time, identity and creative doing to commodity value.
(*see ‘For Space’ Doreen Massey, Sage 2005)
Contact
matt at f-i-e-l-d.co.uk
Biography
Hastings Field 2006