Matthew Lee Knowles
@MatLeeKnowles
(I've written a novel, it's called 36) Experimentalist, composer, poet, pianist, teacher, joker. Horror/whiskey/cosmology 🏳️🌈
I Can See Your Daemon Friday 21st February 2025 Lauderdale House Matthew Lee Knowles and La Chiva Photos by Richard Thomas




Haiku (Drops) The Agony and The Ecstasy of Dandelion Acid [La Chiva & Matthew Lee Knowles] Live at Lauderdale House February 2025
I once burned a bunch of my scores and presented them in an exhibition at oxford university

"But it’s a change of muck. And if all muck is the same muck that doesn’t matter, it’s good to have a change of muck, to move from one heap to another a little further on, from time to time, fluttering you might say, like a butterfly, as if you were ephemeral." - Molloy

Throwback to when I had run out of ideas for graphic scores so just chewed the edges for five minutes

-273°C is absolute zero 273 seconds is 4'33'' So here's John Cage as Mr. Freeze in Batman & Robin

When Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church died in 2014, I wrote a song for him and performed it with Michael Finnissy at the piano and I still can't believe this happened 😂
Debussy said that music is the space between the notes. Good luck with that...

Dirac [string quartet, 2014] full video youtube.com/watch?v=S35Zkn…
How’s this for a coincidence? Cycling/singing a new song I’m working on and stopped at the traffic lights as I sang the line “a long time since, in 1993” then looked down and saw this 🤯
