Matthew Houston

Matthew Houston (b. 1989, Maine, USA) composes and performs music and other sound-work both solo and in groups. He sings and plays guitar, bass, and banjo among other instruments. He works with electronics, tape machines, digital and analog synthesizers, and computer music software like Pure Data and SuperCollider. His approach to music is syncretic and eclectic. Since early childhood he has written and performed in punk bands. His music education was in free improvisation and 20th Century Western compositional practices. He performs Javanese gamelan with Gamelan Tatag at the University of South Dakota and recently with the National Concert Hall Gamelan in Dublin, Ireland. He makes abstract electronic music and studies American fingerstyle guitar. He was contingent faculty in Music and Philosophy at the University of Maine at Farmington and an IT administrator in rural Maine. Then he lived in Dublin, Ireland, for 3 years where he studied the playing and making of uilleann pipes among other things. Now he lives with his partner in South Dakota.