Kaffe Matthews

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The Marvelo Project, 2008. Photograph © Thierry Bal

Title: The Marvelo Project
Location: 91 Sandgate Road

“Created in collaboration between Folkestone Academy year 7 pupils and Kaffe Matthews, the Marvelo project is a sound collage made for bicycles to be performed by visitors to the Triennial. The Marvelo group explored routes of Folkestone, mapping personal histories within the context of the town. New sound pieces have been scored from their stories and encounters and from marking and drawing on local maps, all of which replace notes written on a traditional musical stave. The resulting 'opera' is to be experienced by cycling on specially adapted bikes housing a GPS tracking system, computer and two speakers. The cycling participants become performers of the opera and passers-by accidental audience members.

Translated text about each of the artworks into French, Turkish and Slovak can be found on the events page or from the visitor centre

About Kaffe

Photo: Kevin Altamirano Zuberia

Born in U.K, 1961. Lives and works in London.

Kaffe Matthews has been making and performing new electro-acoustic music since 1990. She is acknowledged as a leading figure and pioneer in the field of electronic improvisation and live composition, making on average 50 performances a year worldwide.

Recent solo shows include

Sonic Bed_Shanghai, Xuhui Art Museum – Shanghai, China 2006
This is for you, work for chaise longue, Arnolfini Gallery – Bristol 2005
Three Crosses of Queensbridge Rd, Sounds Like Drawing, Drawing Room – London 2005
No-one here but us chickens, The Starr auditorium, Sound of Heaven & Earth Symposium, Tate Modern – London 2005

Significant Collaborations

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

Karen Kilimnik Ballet, Sleeping Beauty & friends, New PlayersTheatre, London 2007, made & performed score.
Merce Cunningham Dance Co, John Paul Jones, Philip Selway, Steve Montague, Barbican, London 2005
Sounding Architecture + Lynn Cox + vision impaired adults. Directed the making and performance of Damp Under, 8 channel work for Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, London, by Siza and de Moura.
George Lewis Ensemble, Baden-Baden, SWR2, Neue Music, Germany 2004
Weightless Animals. Online sonic space cartoons & 12” picture disk .2 yr NASA research.

In February 2006 Matthews was made an Honorary Professor of Music, Shanghai Music Conservatory, China. At present she is Director & Founder of field 61, promoting monthly Live Digital Music events, currently on Resonance FM, and Artistic Advisor to STEIM, (electronic music studios) Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Her 2004 collaboration Weightless Animals was awarded a BAFTA, she received a NESTA Dreamtime Fellowship (2005-06) and an Award of Distinction at Prix Ars Electronica 2006 for the work Sonic Bed_London.

Hear Kaffe Matthews work
www.kaffematthews.net

Explore the Marvelo project
kaffematthews.net/wiki/Marvelo