Clutter works between the fields of electroacoustic improvisation, ambient electronics and music concrete and has been doing this since 2001.
He has produced work for albums as well as installations, films, dance and theatre under the Clutter name and Shaun Blezard.
SOUND DONATIONS WANTED!!
I'm starting a new album and had an idea that I thought might be fun. What I would like is for people to donate pieces of sound to me for me to create the album with.
This may be a small instrumental piece, a field recording, some vocal stuff, anything as long as there is no copyright infringement involved and you are happy to donate the recording to me. I will release the album in some form and any monies earned will go back into my releases but you will get credited in any publicity and on the CD.
If this sounds fun and you would like to send a sound donation please email it to info@shaunblezard.com with the subject 'soundonation'
Read the SOUNDONATION BLOG for refections on the project as it progresses
Accidental Aversion by clutter
The first experiment from the Soundonation project is a sound collage called Accidental Aversion.
'Yellow Light Discarded review - 'the music on this EP reminds me more of Max Richters most out there experiments or Nurse With Wound at their most ethereal. Field recordings, strings and dubbed out noises all crop up filling this 3” CD with more ideas than some full length albums. A bold, innovative release that leaves me hungry for more. It’s a pleasurable 22 minutes.' — Was Ist Das Blog
'Holy shit. So how is it possible that you people composed the soundtrack for MY dreams? I should sue..... your music struck me hard within about 60 seconds.' - Kramer
'This album feels like a long lost dream interspersed with half remembered timeless memories. You don't just listen, you become immersed and enriched.' - Review of On Ha'Penny Bridge
'These are beautiful sounds you are creating...Your new record is brilliant. Like sleeping in plasma' - David Wright LaGrone
'simply wonderful... bizarre juxtapositions of different field recordings, elegantly put together to create this amazing and hypnotic sonic structure' - Emvelope Nine
'Slow Blizzard is my tonic for the eve... Lush guitar and echos from the day just past, as my muse lulls me into homely waters of freedom's thoughful bay... Languid yet upturned and spurned... Rawly savage, yet beautiful as a saint, still part of my yearly quota... Lust and love combine into a chemical desire to understand where the drug left off... Was it real? Who cares, as long as I felt it's touch reversed on my skin... Lovely. Pure sonical poetry, my good man' - Polynomial
Featured release
Yellow Light Discarded
Mini CDr version £2.50 + shipping with free download version - Download version £1.50 from Bandcamp
All tracks music by Shaun Blezard
- Yellow Light Discarded
- On Your Parade
- Pollen & Scatter
- The Edge Of Possible
Yellow Light Discarded is the new EP by Clutter - released on 14th June 2010. All tracks were improvised using laptop, iPhone, Nintendo DS and effects then edited and mixed to add the finishing touches.
Yellow Light Discarded features a field recording of rain on a balcony in Plymouth recorded in 2007. On Your Parade features a field recording of Dalton Parade from my back garden in 2010.
'Yellow Light Discarded review - 'the music on this EP reminds me more of Max Richters most out there experiments or Nurse With Wound at their most ethereal. Field recordings, strings and dubbed out noises all crop up filling this 3” CD with more ideas than some full length albums. A bold, innovative release that leaves me hungry for more. It’s a pleasurable 22 minutes.' — Was Ist Das Blog
Featured Film
Clutter - The Edge Of Possible
Next Gig
- 23rd July Aht-n @ Electroinc Organica VI Manchester
- 26th July orfeo 5 @ Manchester Jazz Festival Manchester
- 1st August Aht-n @ Kendal Calling
- 14th August Aht-n @ Radio Black Forest Festival Birmingham
- 2nd September Aht-n @ Dingo Barracks Barrow-in-Furness
- 23rd September Centrifuge @ Kro Bar Manchester
- 24th September Open Circuit @ Lanternhouse Ulverston
- 2nd November Aht-n @ Inclusive Improv Huddersfield
- 12th November Open Circuit @ Lanternhouse Ulverston
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