Matthew Houston

Matthew Houston (b. 1989, Maine, USA) composes and performs music and other sound-work, both solo and in groups. He uses traditional instrumentation, computer music processes, and field recordings. He sings and plays guitar, bass, and banjo. He works with electronics, tape machines, digital and analog synthesizers, and computer music software like Pure Data and SuperCollider. He has played in punk bands since childhood. His music education was in free improvisation and 20th Century Western compositional practices. He performs Javanese gamelan with the National Concert Hall Gamelan in Dublin, Ireland. He makes abstract, minimal electronic music. He studies American fingerstyle guitar and the Irish uilleann pipes. Before emigrating he was contingent faculty in Music and Philosophy at the University of Maine at Farmington and an IT administrator in rural Maine. Now he lives in Dublin, Ireland, preparing to begin PhD work in philosophy.