Matthew Lee Knowles

Teaching piano today and looked outside to see hand-shaped clouds

My friend Moira made me a white chocolate birthday brain 😂

He’s one in a dozen for sure!

Cannot believe I have this on my wall. A score of John Cage’s, signed by John Cage. One of the most generous gifts I have ever received!

Thank you Andrew Toovey, I will never forget this and I will treasure it for the rest of my life 🥹

I think I’ll get this framed 🥹

The names of the 75 composers who contributed a bar to "I Hate Suitcases" for piano, darts and caller.

We performed it on the 8th September and now hope it will be taken up by others!

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[Composers, if you spot an issue with your name/bar, let me know and I will fix]

absolutely thrilled to be turning 40 on Monday

You star! I loved talking to everyone! You should have seen me on Sunday night though after 19 hours of non stop talking 😂

Thank you for coming, it means so much to me and Kat 🥰

Thank you to the hundreds of people who came; I spoke with as many as I could + heard so many interpretations + opinions that I could probably write a book 🤪

Thank you to Heath Street Baptist Church for letting us take over the church + trusting me with the keys!

Thank you to Frey Lawler + Pablo Baxter for sitting with Kat the whole time shaping the piece with their interferences on the stops.

"For Samuel Beckett" was premiered at Heath Street Baptist Church across the last weekend in August by organist Kat Farn who played for a total of nineteen hours!

There are no appropriately grandiose words to describe how grateful I am to her for taking on this enormous monster!

Can you share this? 🥹

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Name a single composer that does not look exactly like this, I’ll wait.

Ugly and beautiful at the same time 🧐

It’s playing tricks on my eyes!

What am I looking at? 🧐

I remember when I first learned that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness and just thinking how wild that was!

- fnghhfhnnfhfnfhfnf *GASP*
- not to worry, just clearing your throat

I no longer wish to be known as a composer, from this day on please refer to me only as a soundshitter.

If you don’t have a David Shrigley bookmark, do you even read bro?

YouTube video by Heath Street Arts Introducing Organist Kat Farn [For Samuel Beckett]

Organist Extraordinaire Katia Farn talking about the organ she will play For Samuel Beckett on, alongside her own journey and experiences and how to approach such a long composition 🫠

When you start a new novel and there’s a sentence which ignites in you the feeling that the author:

1) knows exactly what they’re doing
2) has written the book just for you

Would love to hear your own examples of this!

YouTube video by Heath Street Arts Introducing 'For Samuel Beckett' with composer Matthew Lee Knowles

I was interviewed about "For Samuel Beckett" and the compositional process that led to it.

Hope you enjoy the part at the end where I get overrun with hundreds of puppies and kittens ^_^

- will I be able to play the piano after this? 🥺
- yes! Definitely! 😊
- great, because I couldn’t before! 😀
- you… you said you were a piano teacher 😕
- please don’t spoil my joke 🤨

Rosie and Jim shortly after seeing some serious shit go down