Explore your vision through your ears
“One day I picked up the violin again and I played without any directions. It sounded incredible. I found out that through all my years of playing, I had never really listened to anything I was doing, I was just reading a score."
Matthews started playing classical violin as a child and was very passionate about it for years. Later, she got bored of the kind of music she played. Until the day she as a grown up picked up the violin and started playing after her own ears.
You can see her revolt against traditional ways of composing in her work for Struer Tracks too.
Sonic Bikes have an element of randomness and room for the cyclist to influence and play with the composition itself. If you bike fast, the composition will change more rapidly, if you choose a certain direction, you might change the pitch of the sound you are hearing, and Matthews will randomize some specific areas, so that the sound will change each time you go there.
“I haven’t looked back since,” Matthews concludes, “I knew that I wanted to play music to get people to listen and get their ears out. We are not just eye creatures - we can explore our vision through our ears.”