Collings, Matthew
Uzonia
After the release of Hello Darkness in 2017, a collaboration with Dag Rosenqvist, Uzonia is the fourth solo album of the Scotland-based composer Matthew Collings. His acclaimed 'audio-visual opera, A Requiem For Edward Snowden, for strings, clarinet, electronics and real-time visuals was premiered to a sell-out crowd in October 2014, and has been performed at Glasgow CCA, Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Utrecht's Gaudeamus Muziekweek (NL). Hes responsible for several installations using custom-made software, which have been exhibited at Burning Man Festival in San Francisco or Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Arts. His work for films includes a specially commissioned live score for Dziga Vertovs 1929 silent classic, The Man with the Movie Camera and an invitation to work on The Invisibles, a commission from Amnesty International.