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Matthew Lee Knowles

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Matthew Lee Knowles @matthewleeknowles.bsky.social · Apr 21

I have truly never been more excited to share anything with you stunning people in my whole life!

Click here linktr.ee/matthewleekn... to see the concert I gave in February with La Chiva of eighteen of our songs!

The show is called I CAN SEE YOUR DAEMON...

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Matthew Lee Knowles @matthewleeknowles.bsky.social · 5d

Teaching piano today and looked outside to see hand-shaped clouds

Matthew Lee Knowles @matthewleeknowles.bsky.social · 25d

My friend Moira made me a white chocolate birthday brain 😂

Matthew Lee Knowles @matthewleeknowles.bsky.social · 27d

He’s one in a dozen for sure!

Matthew Lee Knowles @matthewleeknowles.bsky.social · 28d

Cannot believe I have this on my wall. A score of John Cage’s, signed by John Cage. One of the most generous gifts I have ever received!

Thank you Andrew Toovey, I will never forget this and I will treasure it for the rest of my life 🥹

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Matthew Lee Knowles @matthewleeknowles.bsky.social · 28d

I think I’ll get this framed 🥹

Matthew Lee Knowles @matthewleeknowles.bsky.social · Sep 11

The names of the 75 composers who contributed a bar to "I Hate Suitcases" for piano, darts and caller.

We performed it on the 8th September and now hope it will be taken up by others!

drive.google.com/file/d/1Slgc...

[Composers, if you spot an issue with your name/bar, let me know and I will fix]

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Matthew Lee Knowles @matthewleeknowles.bsky.social · Sep 7

absolutely thrilled to be turning 40 on Monday

Matthew Lee Knowles @matthewleeknowles.bsky.social · Sep 4

You star! I loved talking to everyone! You should have seen me on Sunday night though after 19 hours of non stop talking 😂

Thank you for coming, it means so much to me and Kat 🥰

Matthew Lee Knowles @matthewleeknowles.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you to the hundreds of people who came; I spoke with as many as I could + heard so many interpretations + opinions that I could probably write a book 🤪

Matthew Lee Knowles @matthewleeknowles.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you to Heath Street Baptist Church for letting us take over the church + trusting me with the keys!

Matthew Lee Knowles @matthewleeknowles.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you to Frey Lawler + Pablo Baxter for sitting with Kat the whole time shaping the piece with their interferences on the stops.

Matthew Lee Knowles @matthewleeknowles.bsky.social · Sep 4

"For Samuel Beckett" was premiered at Heath Street Baptist Church across the last weekend in August by organist Kat Farn who played for a total of nineteen hours!

There are no appropriately grandiose words to describe how grateful I am to her for taking on this enormous monster!

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Matthew Lee Knowles @matthewleeknowles.bsky.social · Sep 2

Matthew Lee Knowles @matthewleeknowles.bsky.social · Aug 28

Can you share this? 🥹

buytickets.at/heathstreeta...

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Matthew Lee Knowles @matthewleeknowles.bsky.social · Aug 28

Name a single composer that does not look exactly like this, I’ll wait.

Matthew Lee Knowles @matthewleeknowles.bsky.social · Aug 27

Ugly and beautiful at the same time 🧐

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Matthew Lee Knowles @matthewleeknowles.bsky.social · Aug 27

It’s playing tricks on my eyes!

Matthew Lee Knowles @matthewleeknowles.bsky.social · Aug 27

What am I looking at? 🧐

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Matthew Lee Knowles @matthewleeknowles.bsky.social · Aug 27

Matthew Lee Knowles @matthewleeknowles.bsky.social · Aug 25

I remember when I first learned that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness and just thinking how wild that was!

Matthew Lee Knowles @matthewleeknowles.bsky.social · Aug 25

- fnghhfhnnfhfnfhfnf *GASP*
- not to worry, just clearing your throat

Matthew Lee Knowles @matthewleeknowles.bsky.social · Aug 25

I no longer wish to be known as a composer, from this day on please refer to me only as a soundshitter.

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Matthew Lee Knowles @matthewleeknowles.bsky.social · Aug 20

If you don’t have a David Shrigley bookmark, do you even read bro?

Matthew Lee Knowles @matthewleeknowles.bsky.social · Aug 20

Organist Extraordinaire Katia Farn talking about the organ she will play For Samuel Beckett on, alongside her own journey and experiences and how to approach such a long composition 🫠

Introducing Organist Kat Farn [For Samuel Beckett]

YouTube video by Heath Street Arts