In February 2025 after three years of working together, "The Agony & The Ecstasy Of Dandelion Acid" (Matthew Lee Knowles & La Chiva) presented 18 of their songs in a sold out event at Lauderdale House

Dandelion Acid live at Lauderdale House (21/02/25)

The Unnamable
concerto for orchestra, celesta, crotales and baritone
May - October 2022
Matthew Lee Knowles

"Lies, lies, mine was not to know, nor to judge, nor to rail, but to go"
-Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable (1953)

SCORE
https://www.scribd.com/document/612052358/The-Unnamable

The Unnamable (2022)

Vocals: Michael Wookey
Lyrics: Lew Furber
Music: Matthew Lee Knowles
Visuals: Daniel Adams

MUSIC VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl0ldz48XMk 

An Afternoon In Paris

For Ben Nobuto
Composed by Matthew Lee Knowles
Performed by Kat Farn

SCORE VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siw1_THfkVU 

For Ben Nobuto

a musical portrait of someone I met recently

SCORE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk4nRIXxqJc

For Alexander

For Roderick Chadwick
May 2025
performed by Matthew Lee Knowles

SCORE VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlFRpN-aIk4

For Roderick Chadwick

A piece to celebrate the joint birthdays of a pair of fabulous friends and fabulouser composers: Jobina Tinnemans & Christopher Fox

SCORE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYwp1EjwPrA

Happy Birthdays Jobina and Christopher!

performed by Kerry Waller

SCORE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVGgRFD3pLM

Happy Thirtieth Birthday Daniel Derakhshan!

FOR REASONS UNKNOWN
French Horn Quartet
Matthew Lee Knowles
2025


Play once as written, then repeat, permanently removing a single note from any part
Keep repeating and removing until the 80th section contains only one note
An average performance will last 67 minutes
Each section should have a randomly chosen MM between crotchet=30 and 300
This realisation is only one of a potential 10^311 unique performances which would take 10^307 years to hear in full

In Lucky's speech in Beckett's "Waiting For Godot", the phrase 'For Reasons Unknown' is spoken ten times. 


SCORE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlHdtsJGjHk

For Reasons Unknown

In February 2025 after three years of working together, Dandelion Acid (Matthew Lee Knowles & La Chiva) presented 18 of their songs in a sold out event at Lauderdale House

PLANNING PHASE

WE NEVER HAD A BALL

BIRDSONG

THE CHOSEN

THE DAEMON SONG

WOUNDS AND REMAINS

FISH STORY

AMBI-VALENT

BIG HANDS

DANDELION ACID

MASADA

PARTNERS SHOVE

YOUR STAR

UR FEMININE

CLAW IT BACK

NO MAN'S LAND

MASTURBATING WHILST MEDITATING

HAIKU (DROPS)

Performed by Kat Farn

SCORE VIDEO
https://youtu.be/hpbAUZFg3pA?si=0wVVGI6TmGLlsmc9

Title from 'Secret Lives' by Siân Hughes

With my friends Mico N. Aquino and Yvonne-Nikola Fontaine we wrote a new piece every day!
Here are my submissions to the project and you can follow the links here to see all the videos with scores :-))))))))))))))))

https://www.youtube.com/@AnatoArchives/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@MicoAquinoComposer/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@MatthewLeeKnowles/videos

DAY SEVEN: TWELVE PICCOLOS AND A PIANO IN PALAWAN

DAY SIX: BLOSSOMS IN THE DUST/FOR MARSHA HUNT

DAY TWO: FIVE TROMBONES FIGHT OFF A METAL MONSTER

DAY ONE: LASER POINTER CAT PIANO

DAY THREE: PINK SKIES ABOVE A PINK PIANO

DAY FIVE: SIX BECKETTIAN FIDDLES

DAY FOUR: HAPPY-FASTY-LOUDY-SMASHY

Klaus Nomi 
The Cold Song / King Arthur
Henry Purcell + John Dryden [1691]

Matthew Lee Knowles
[2015]

Nomi died from AIDS aged 39 and Purcell suffered an even more premature end around 35.  I include Dryden's words here, because they parallel both Nomi's impending agony and Purcell's (possible) cause of death (long exposure to the cold after getting locked out.)

What Power art thou, 
Who from below, 
Hast made me rise, 
Unwillingly and slow,
From beds of everlasting snow!

See'st thou not how stiff,
And wondrous old,
Far unfit to bear the bitter cold.

I can scarcely move,
Or draw my breath,
I can scarcely move,
Or draw my breath.

Let me, let me,
Let me, let me,
Freeze again...
Let me, let me,
Freeze again to death!

Klaus Nomi/The Cold Song [MLK/REMIX:1691/2015]

I'll follow you back when SC lifts the follower limit (!)
Loving listening to everyone's music on here :-))))))))))

Matthew Lee Knowles

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