Matt Bryden is one of the six recipients of the RSL's inaugural Literature Matters Awards. He discusses his time in residence at Bristol Temple Meads train station’s Lost Property Office which he is using to inspire him to write a new collection of poetry.

Matt Bryden - RSL Literature Matters Interview With Molly Rosenberg

Founded in 1820, the RSL acts as a voice for the value of literature, honouring and supporting emerging and established writers whilst creating a bridge between authors and audiences of all backgrounds and experiences to engage as many people as possible with the wealth of literature in the UK.

This is high dynamic range music. Just raise the volume knob, you will be surprised...

Flaub, composer, performer and visual artist mainly orientated to avant-garde, experimental and ambient music.

With the aim of compiling sonic substance and creating new devices from old industrial machines and recycled scrap, I spent several years living into an abandoned factory reconditioned as a sound laboratory. Besides those post-industrial quests I use to travel around the world documenting sonic and visual material. Combining all that stuff with the research of new synthesis methods, this music not only describes pictures, it will transport you to a sort of surreal and Sci-Fi scenarios, images that are quite difficult to define.

Fernando Laub (Argentina, Austria)

“POZO” is a guitarist and multi-instrumentalist of world music, jazz, blues, rock, electronica, trip hop and fusion. He has performed in New York City and toured in the U.S. and Latin America as the opening act of several main stream artists such as Aterciopelados, Jaguares, Rata Blanca and Autenticos Decadentes among others. 

POZO has garnered a large following of fans all over the world for his sultry and dramatic approach to experimental and world music genres . He was the main guitarist and songwriter for the New York-based band Sonido Secreto, with three albums under that band name: Eternal Jam (2004), Voodoo Sonico (2008) and Circulos (2011). 
 In 2012 he released his first solo instrumental album “In the Cage” – a psychedelic 13 track blues & rock album in which he fuses blues and electronica. In 2013 he released “The Last Caravan at the Silk Road” – a sonically smooth journey across the musical styles of India and Europe with ethnic musical atmospheres textured in electronic sound canvasses. 
His album “Thoughts of the Way of Sorrow” (2014) and his single “Pozo de Pecados” (2016) both won the AKADEMIA Award for Best Instrumental Blues Album and Best Funk/Fusion Single, respectively. In NYC he has performed at Webster Hall, The Highline Ballroom, SOB's, The Knitting Factory, The Ritz Theater and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center among other main venues.

Matt Bryden - RSL Literature Matters Interview With Molly Rosenberg

Royal Society Literature