Dot matrix music or the tragic, hopeless desire of the sounds you will never encounter.
This is an excerpt from a New Zealand show.
In it we meet a woman who seemingly spends alot of time making some of the absolutely most hauntingly beautiful music I have ever heard in my life through the medium of devices we usually see as producing only noise.
This woman has apparently received little or no international recognition from what I can tell from searching the internet for "Sue Harding", apart from a myspace site with nine friends. (suedotmatrix)
Why is this?
I get genuinely happy when I hear music like this. I want to know through details how it is made, why it is made and what it is made for. I absolutely love it and I can't understand anything of it, it is complex and it is perfect for nights where I have absolutely nothing to do but think about things that have happened and the future, to the point where i can just lie in my bed with my headset on and consume the sounds like a drug in an attempt to make sense of the rhytms and the notes. All I can understand with my nonexistant musical education is that it is harmonious and it inspires me in a very vague way. I want to create something beautiful.
It also makes me sad, however, to know that I might never have come upon these sounds. It terrifies me how there are so many people in the world creating absolutely beautiful sounds I will never hear because I do not know them.
So, in a sense, this also inspires me to go out and meet new people, to learn what makes them different and how they in their own way attempt to create something beautiful.






