Matthew Grouse


I’m a composer and performer, originally from Yorkshire (UK), currently living in Copenhagen, and studying in Aarhus (DK). I often work in interdisciplinary settings, at an intersection between music for instruments and voices; electronic sound; text; video; staging and performance. My work regularly engages with a re-contextualisation of everyday sounds, objects, and automatic, repetitive behaviours to reveal the latently musical in the mundane.

Recent pieces have involved, amongst other things, documentary techniques; self-reflexivity; audience participation; repetition; instrumentalised office-technology; custom-built, tactile electronic instruments like paintbrush synthesisers and vibrotactile transducers; sound visualised in fire, sand, salt and rice; quotation and musical disfigurement; and staring contests.

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

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