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Matthew Wright (UK, 1977)
Locked Hybrids (2020/2023) 30′
Matthew Wright music and film
Evan Parker saxophone samples
First commissioned by hcmf// for a live online broadcast as part of the 2020 festival, Locked Hybrids is an audiovisual work that sees composer and producer Matthew Wright remix his album of the same name. Now, Locked Hybrids receives its physical premiere as an installation at Dai Hall this summer.
Sound in the work is built entirely from samples of saxophonist Evan Parker, extracted from the album and cast into a continuous 30-minute study of fractured pulse and glitch. This approach is reflected through the use of fractured narrative and jumpcut techniques in the film, constructed from footage taken during Wright’s 2009 travels through Mongolia. Together, these elements present an absorbing recontextualisation of Parker’s musicianship, warped and transformed as the desert takes its toll:
“In the huge expanse of the Gobi, time feels different: the horizon is always out there in the future, the heat is ever present, and you are reminded of the past distances already travelled.”
Produced by hcmf// in partnership with Cultures of Sound