95. Matthew Barley

Author: Seb Philpott and Verity Simmons
Published: Wed 22 Feb 2023
Episode Link: https://shows.acast.com/three-in-a-bar/episodes/95-matthew-barley

This week’s guest wins the award for most glamorous location for a live link up - It’s internationally renowned ‘cellist Matthew Barley and he’s in the rainforests of Brazil!

Matthew kindly took time away from his holiday to chat with Seb and Verity about his soon to be released album Electric. This album brings together a unique collection of works for cello and electronics from the last 40 years and features compositions by the likes of Anna Meredith, Joby Talbot, Jonathan Harvey and Oded Ben-Tal.

Matthew talks about the joys of being hands on through the editing process, how he grapples with letting go of imperfections whilst constantly striving for improvements. He also chats about his ‘Around Britten’ tour and the weird and wonderful venues he performed in - think caves, a lighthouse & a swimming pool amongst others!

They also discuss the conundrum of getting audiences into contemporary music concerts and Matthew’s excitement/trepidation at recording his own compositions for the first time….

There are classic Zencastr issues which present in the form of a healthy two second delay. Seb has worked his editing magic on it but there may be a few eggy moments which we can assure you are purely tech related….we hope!

Tracks featured in this episode:

Noticing Things: II. Replica - Jan Bang

Constant Filter - John Metcalfe

Falling - Joby Talbot

Moonmoons - Anna Meredith

Motion Detector - Joby Talbot

To read more about Matthew visit his website; https://matthewbarley.com/

Check out the first singles released from Electric here; https://music.apple.com/gb/album/electric/1667564338

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