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Darcy James Argue's Secret Society; London Sinfonieta/Matthew Herbert

5146 days ago
Guardian MusicVarious venues, LondonThe London jazz festival is to be congratulated for enabling two ambitious concerts that would otherwise fall through the cracks. But while One Day, the Sinfonieta's collaboration with Matthew Herbert was light on content, the L... more info

Sleeve Notes: The Beatles on iTunes? Why didn't anybody make a fuss?

5149 days ago
Guardian MusicThe Fab Four finally join the year 2010. Elsewhere, Neil Young's eco car explodes, and Swans are invited to play at the royal wedding (er, by Guardian readers)Five things we learned from the news•OMG, you can buy the Beatles on iTunes? Why didn't a... more info

Matthew Herbert turns the Guardian into music

5149 days ago
Guardian MusicHeard the news? Well you can do now – literally – since I have taken stories from an edition of the Guardian and turned them into musicThe bulk of readily accessible new music is concerned with little more than itself. It is no surprise that pop ... more info

ENSEMBLE 'Excerpts' (FatCat, 17th January 2011)

5155 days ago
Altsounds'Excerpts' is the gorgeous new record from Montreal resident Olivier Alary, the songwriter/composer behind Ensemble. Here, lush orchestration meets sophisticated pop to produce an atemporal sound that bears some comparison to the music of Matthew... more info

Matthew Herbert: How I made a concert out of the Guardian

5159 days ago
Guardian MusicVideo: The maverick musician talks through the ideas behind One Day, a composition inspired by the 25 September edition of the GuardianAlex HealeyMatt Hall more info

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5160 days ago
Guardian MusicSuperstar collaborator Matthew Herbert breaks the news, live on stage, in a musical composition of The Guardian printed on 25 September. Extra members can save £5 on tickets to a performance of the news on Saturday 20 November at London's Southbank ... more info

Finn Peters: Music of the Mind | CD review

5170 days ago
Guardian Music(Mantella Records)British flautist and saxophonist Finn Peters is no purist jazzer, despite possessing a tenor sound that spans the worlds of John Coltrane and the soul-jazz horn players. He's worked with Dizzee Rascal and Matthew Herbert and the c... more info

The wonderful women of the ancient world; and the Guardian goes musical

5188 days ago
Guardian MusicHeroines, harlots and harridans from ancient Greece and Rome; and Matthew Herbert's latest workA couple of pieces from the past few days, on classical women in fact and fiction; and on a new work inspired by the Guardian by experimental composer Matt... more info

The Guardian made music: 'found' sounds and food, chiffchaffs and Labour contenders

5191 days ago
Guardian MusicComposer Matthew Herbert will turn one day's paper into music at the Royal Festival Hall – with help from the chefsOn Saturday 25 September the Guardian was full of speculation about who the next leader of the Labour party might be. There was a rec... more info

Matthew Herbert - One Club

5205 days ago
DrownedInSoundAt some point, though, you have to ponder what purchasers will actually get from this album, once they’ve enjoyed the idle sport of identifying the sample source and chewed on all the parts which sound like a ‘regular’ dance record. Read ... more info

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