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Matt Dalby
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Unsightly vox-goblin lurking in Manchesterland. Makes noise and other things. Diagnosed autistic AF. They/them or he/him. Transphobes fuck off.
Listen to this, it's good.
December 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Snippets of two dreams last night: diagnosing billionaires as developing 'Phineas Gage Syndrome' by driving wealth through their brains instead of iron rods; a group of people hiding on a train from billionaires trying to murder them.
December 11, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Tear Fet: The River Dreams of Rain

This week's longform vocal sound improvisation premieres on Friday (12 December) at 21:30 UK time.

Recorded en route to Warrington and it's a good one.

youtu.be/UV3jGKiEloo
Tear Fet: The River Dreams of Rain
YouTube video by Matt Dalby
youtu.be
December 10, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Tear Fet: Imagine If You Bled - vocal sound improvisation

This short is very good, even if I say it myself.

youtube.com/shorts/WQvSs...
Tear Fet: Imagine If You Bled - vocal sound improvisation #improvisation #vocalimprovisation
YouTube video by Matt Dalby
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December 10, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Sharing this principally because it's funny given I've been subscribed for about a week so far and watched 6 films on Mubi in that time. That said, the top three are all excellent films.
December 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Some light and dark photos from this evening.
December 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Tear Fet: Things You'll Never Know - vocal sound improvisation

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Tear Fet: Things You'll Never Know - vocal sound improvisation #improvisation #vocalimprovisation
YouTube video by Matt Dalby
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December 8, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Reposted by Matt Dalby
careful what you wish for, Joe
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.

“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.

This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:

www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Tear Fet: Waking - vocal sound improvisation

Iggy’s the star.

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Tear Fet: Waking - vocal sound improvisation #improvisation #vocalimprovisation
YouTube video by Matt Dalby
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December 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I'm certainly starting with value for money from Mubi and BFI Player. In a week I've watched The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, Broadway by Light, The Celluloid Closet, M, Hundreds of Beavers, Pink Narcissus, The Epic of Everest, Blank Narcissus (Passion of the Swamp), and The Image Book.
December 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Tear Fet: Antisocial Contract

My latest longform vocal sound improvisation premieres at half past the hour.

Filmed on the lovely Marsden Moor.

youtu.be/ddox0lhgazc?...
Tear Fet: Antisocial Contract
YouTube video by Matt Dalby
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Tear Fet: Antisocial Contract

This week's longform vocal sound improvisation premieres tonight (Fri 5 Dec) at 21:30 UK time.

It's intermittently good, last week's was better.

youtu.be/ddox0lhgazc
Tear Fet: Antisocial Contract
YouTube video by Matt Dalby
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Obviously, Wes Streeting is vile ghoul. And as a person with an autism diagnosis who's experienced anxiety and depression and seen psychologists and psychiatrists he can absolutely fuck right off with this.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Streeting orders review into mental health and ADHD diagnoses
The health secretary says the aim is to tackle a rising demand for services and pressure on the NHS.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The culturally ubiquitous sign of cock and balls drawn in a car windscreen's condensation.
December 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Tear Fet: City / Death / Capital - vocal sound improvisation

A short improvisation in three chapters. Because I'm a pretentious wanker, and I thought it would be funny to do something unnecessarily inscrutable.

youtube.com/shorts/f2gSc...
Tear Fet: City / Death / Capital - vocal sound improvisation #improvisation #vocalimprovisation
YouTube video by Matt Dalby
youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Tear Fet: Inescapable City - vocal sound improvisation

Second of three today after missing Sat and Mon. It's okay, but I'd go listen to Blow Up from earlier instead.

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Tear Fet: Inescapable City - vocal sound improvisation #improvisation #vocalimprovisation
YouTube video by Matt Dalby
youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Tear Fet: Blow Up - poem + improvised sections

Caution: sweary.

The first of three today because I didn'tposton Saturday or Monday.

youtube.com/shorts/g4uqZ...
Tear Fet: Blow Up - poem + improvised sections #improvisation #poetry
YouTube video by Matt Dalby
youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Finally got round to cancelling a lot of subscriptions and the like, including Netflix, saving plenty of money. Even better it's given me headroom to subscribe to mubi and BFI Player meaning there are masses of films I actually want to watch.
December 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Tear Fet: There Is No Contradiction.

Friday's 15-minute vocal sound improvisation.

I'm confident this is one of my best.

youtu.be/9pEQ03cj0gQ
Tear Fet: There Is No Contradiction
YouTube video by Matt Dalby
youtu.be
December 1, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Today on Marsden Moor and one above Ashton-under-Lyne on the way home
November 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Currently working on a follow-up poem to this. I'm gathering ideas, words, phrases, images, and thematic strands to talk about the systemic and capitalistic violence that affects us all.
A new poem. The proper text this time.
November 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
A new poem. The proper text this time.
November 28, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Tear Fet: There Is No Contradiction

My latest longform vocal sound improvisation premieres at half past the hour.

I think this is one of my best recently.

youtu.be/9pEQ03cj0gQ?...
Tear Fet: There Is No Contradiction
YouTube video by Matt Dalby
youtu.be
November 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
New delivery from Broken Sleep Books
November 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Blindboy The Land of Slaves and Scholars, the documentary that won Blindboy nest presenter at last week's Grierson awards. You should probably crank up your VPN and watch it on RTE Player rather than this version.

youtu.be/q-s4VLpcrvA?...
Blindboy The Land Of Slaves And Scholars
YouTube video by Hibernia
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November 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM