Matthew J. Saunders


Matthew J. Saunders is an English composer, mastering engineer, and visual designer. During the first decade of the 21st century he was signed to 4AD Records — a British major independent label home to The Pixies, Cocteau Twins, Scott Walker and many others. He records and performs as Twilight Sequence, Magnétophone, The Assembled Minds, Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. and also runs the record label Patterned Air Recordings.
On 4AD, as one half of the art-rock electronic band Magnétophone, he released two albums, three EPs and a 7" single. It was an unusual signing for 4AD, Magnétophone's first album being almost all instrumental, and this departure piqued the interest of journalists and fans of the label and band equally. The band were the first signing after the corporate restructuring of 4AD when co-founder Ivo Watts-Russell departed and the album was seen as a signpost of where the newly reinvented label might be heading
Before signing to 4AD, Saunders released records on several influential record labels including Static Caravan Recordings, Earworm Records, Spaceage Recordings and Ochre Records. He has recorded two Peel Sessions for BBC Radio One, two sessions for BBC Radio One's Rob da Bank, as well as sessions for BBC Radio 3 and XFM.
Saunders has collaborated on record with significant artists such as rock legends Kim Deal and Kelley Deal, Scottish folk legend and Mercury Music Prize nominee King Creosote, infamous drone rock band Spacemen 3's Peter Kember, Scottish folk singer/songwriter James Yorkston and others — all tracks that appeared on Magnétophone's second 4AD album, The Man Who Ate the Man or related 12" releases.
He is currently releasing records as "Twilight Sequence" and is signed to Castles in Space Records where he has released a 7" single on the subscription library, an etched 12" with artwork by Zeke Clough, and a vinyl album.
He is also known for his solo electronic recordings as The Assembled Minds, having released two albums and numerous singles and remixes on a variety of record labels, gaining critical acclaim from magazines such as The Wire and Self-Titled Magazine, from music author and journalist Simon Reynolds, and numerous national radio plays on stations such as BBC Radio 6
Saunders worked on the feature documentary film Valentino: The Last Emperor and is a credited composer on IMDb. He has also had music synced by BBC World News in daily continuity pieces and Sky in cross-network adverts. According to the official website, he is currently composing music for media in addition to running mastering house 808 Hz, where he has mastered albums by artists such as Wire front man Colin Newman, Eva Bowan, Malka Spigel, Anthony Reynolds, and Jon Thorne
In 2007 Saunders contributed a Magnétophone track to a prestigious arts project by New York publishing house Visionaire, a work called Visionaire No. 53: Sound, which saw him appear on record alongside artists such as Yoko Ono, Michael Stipe, U2, Liza Minnelli, Lalo Schifrin, David Byrne, Ad-Rock, Courtney Love and others. Each artist was asked to provide a unique piece of music which was then pressed across five pieces of vinyl and a cd, was housed in a large dome receptical and supplied with a record player in the form of a battery powered car.
WWW Official Site

Discography

; Albums
Twilight SequenceA Travel Companion for the Avid Field Recordist, CD Outline of Nature, LP Trees In General: And the Larch, 12" Looking at Lifeforms, 7" Analogue Studies at Dawn and Dimmity, digital
Assembled MindsDirty Workshop Magick, digital Psychogeographic Audio Explorations Along the A303 Vol.1, 8" vinyl Tomorrow Curves, Assembled Minds, CD Creaking Haze and Other Rave Ghosts, CD
The Matthew Machine
  • auto-autumnal generative soundwave bath, digital
; MagnétophoneI Guess Sometimes I Need to Be Reminded of How Much You Love Me The Man Who Ate the Man Promo Phone 1
Singles, EPs, and various
  • "You Should Write Music"
  • "Air Methods"
  • "Box Flow"
  • "Lights in the Eye"
  • "Temporary Lid" EP
  • "The Science Must Continue"
  • "Lubeecha" Lathe Cut
  • "Eve Transmission"
  • "Little Boy's Acorn"
  • "Come on the 'Phone" EP
  • "Relax, It's the End of Electronica"
  • "I Hear Blonde Falcons"
  • "Kel's Vintage Thought"
  • "...And May Your Last Words Be a Chance to Make Things Better"
  • "...And May Your Last Words Be a Chance to Make Things Better"
  • "Systems Thinking Business Modelling Consultant"
  • "22 Calibre Family"
  • "Much Less Than A Day"
  • "Much Less Than A Day: Edit"
  • "The Old Silver In and Out"
; Remixes of Matthew J Saunders / Magnétophone
  • "Kel's Vintage Thought Outhud Remix"
  • "MNPLIE4AD Lost in Edit by JM Lapham" Remix
  • "Benny's Trip Sonic Boom Remix"
; Remixes by Matthew J Saunders / Magnétophone
  • "Run From Safety"
  • "Antiphon"
; DJ mixes of Matthew J Saunders / Magnétophone
  • "Kel's Vintage Thought Outhud Remix"

Radio sessions

Film