Matt Robin
TX: SUNDAY, 23RD NOVEMBER. FROM 8PM
A breath of bronze. A performance built from the resonance of bells, sampled, fragmented and transformed into continuous sound. Reverberations multiply into waves, rising, falling and rising again.
A bell functions as both signal and passage — a peal, a knell, a call, a marker of time. Here, its punctuation dissolves, focusing on the threshold between strike and silence. Its resonance becomes fluid, like water gathering into a river. Endless droplets swell into larger currents. From the tiniest particle of sound, vast textures and layers emerge.
Rhythms arise through repetition and flow. Past and present intermingle. Time circles back onto itself as memory decays and renews — merging, evaporating, evolving.
This work traces the transformation of a single sound source into multiple voices and shifting textures, where stillness and motion exist in a dynamic balance.
Matt Robin is a sound artist and composer working with electronics, field recordings, and percussion. His practice, both solo and collaborative, centres on exploring complexity through minimal means, using restraint to reveal sonic detail. Guided by curiosity, he explores the textures and tonal possibilities of acoustic and electronic tools through close listening and experimentation.
He is a member of NEY, a Glasgow-based trio whose work combines voice, (electro)acoustic instruments, electronics, field recordings, and live processing. NEY has released music on the label Somewhere Press, performed in Glasgow, London, and Berlin, undertaken a residency at Grabowsee in Germany, and collaborated with Colombian-born, Miami-based experimental sound artist Doris Dana.
Matt currently collaborates with artist Shola von Reinhold, weaving harp, percussion, electronics and voice. Their work explores delicate threads and sudden ruptures, where chaos coils around fragility and entanglement becomes both method and outcome.
Following his wonderful submission to our open call this year, ‘Petra hoc’h eus kavet? (what did you find?)’, a radio work reflecting on personal grief and cultural heritage, Matt is now working on a new radio production commission for Radiophrenia 2026.