© 2025 Matthew Collings / Designed By Elin Svennberg
© 2025 Matthew Collings / Designed By Elin Svennberg
© 2025 Matthew Collings / Designed By Elin Svennberg
© 2025 Matthew Collings / Designed By Elin Svennberg
© 2025 Matthew Collings / Designed By Elin Svennberg
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About
Collings's work contrasts the crushed guitars and textures of My Bloody Valentine or Sonic Youth with structures more akin to contemporary classical composers like Steve Reich or David Lang.
In performance, he uses the amplifier as an instrument and the guitar as a control device for innovative digital processes.
Working across film, installation, and live performance, Collings creates immersive sonic experiences. His first feature-film score, On the Line was nominated for a Crystal Pine Award for Best Original Score (2023).
​A Requiem for Edward Snowden –an audio-visual opera with Jules Rawlinson, for strings, clarinet, electronics and real-time visuals was premiered to a sell-out crowd in October 2014. It has since been performed at Glasgow CCA, Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Made in Scotland Showcase 2015), Aberdeen Sound Festival and Utrecht's Gaudeamus Muziekweek (NL).
He received an ALT-W award from New Media Scotland in 2012 for The Third Mind, an algorithmic cinema performance and installation created with Erik Parr, which premiered to a sold-out audience at Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA).
He was also invited to participate in the 50th Design Biennial (Ljubljana, 2014)​
His work has been featured in installations at major venues including Glasgow City Halls, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Dundee NEoN Digital Arts Festival and Manipulate Festival.
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International presentations include Burning Man Festival, Chattanooga Gallery of Contemporary Art and Icelandic Academy of Arts.
"Deeply unsettling"
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- The Wire
"This is art-house ambience aiming to be something a lot different to the norm, and succeeding...in an era where everything seems a copy of a copy, his work has a freshness to it"
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- Metro
'"specially inspiring and stunningly crafted"
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- Edinburgh Guide
"'an elemental whorl of electro-acoustic (de)composition' "
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- BOOMKAT.COM
​"...he’s blazed his own path through contemporary music, recording an album that is as emotionally intense as it is complex"
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- A Closer Listen