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| Matthew started off playing a French
horn when he was 11. This lasted for eight years. Then, after
a brief period of noodling harmlessly on acoustic and electric
guitars, he discovered a Turkish stringed instrument called
a 'baglama', or (more commonly) a saz. That was 1994.
He's hardly touched a guitar since, rather developing his
own (not particularly Turkish-sounding) way of playing a
saz.
The latter half of the 1990's were spent playing in conjunction with Inge's mandolin playing, and then, together with various members of the nomadic Dongas Tribe, in West Cornwall. Between 2001 and 2007, Matthew has been based in Exeter, heavily involved in the local improvisational collective Children of the Drone. He now spends most of his time in East Kent, but still drops by for occasional COTD sessions. In the spring of 2005, having returned from a 'musical
adventure', playing and recording with friends in England,
Ireland, France, Spain and Belgium, he launched an 'audio-blog'
called The Spring. This documents all of his current
musical activity, but the ongoing project has also involved
cleaning up and archiving various lo-fi recordings from
his past, mostly under the name A Tiny Window. In 2006, he started a semi-improvisatory trio in Exeter with Henry
and Keith from Children of the Drone, called
Orbis Tertius?. 
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