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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.
Tear Fet: Domestic Suspensions - vocal sound improvisation

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Tear Fet: Domestic Suspensions - vocal sound improvisation #improvisation #vocalimprovisation
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November 16, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Tear Fet: Accidents of Practice

This week's longform vocal sound improvisation premieres at half past the hour.

The first half may be the stronger.

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Tear Fet: Accidents of Practice
YouTube video by Matt Dalby
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November 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Reposted by Matt Dalby
Trump Denies Writing 36-Volume Comic Titled ‘Don And Jeff: Time Pedophiles’ https://theonion.com/trump-denies-writing-36-volume-comic-titled-don-and-jeff-time-pedophiles/
November 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Tonight at 21:30 UK time. I'll post another reminder nearer the time.
Tear Fet: Accidents of Practice

My next longform vocal sound improvisation premieres Fri (14 Nov) at 21:30 UK time.

My usual vocalisations near a wet Dunham Massey and reflections on interpretative practices of art and more.

youtu.be/Sn3rxQwMdPQ
Tear Fet: Accidents of Practice
YouTube video by Matt Dalby
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November 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Reviews of some new folk releases and the (relatively) recent tribute concert to Martin Carthy.

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Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Autumn, by Patrick Clarke | The Quietus
The room that is now Dalston’s EartH Theatre first opened as a cinema in 1936, five years before the birth of Martin Carthy. In the decades since both man and room have endured swings in fortune. One ...
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November 13, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Tear Fet: Manchester Rot - vocal sound improvisation

I'm not sure about this one. Vocal sound improvisation and inarticulate complaints about Manchester and Salford's attempts to become a shittier Singapore-on-Mersey.

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Tear Fet: Manchester Rot - vocal sound improvisation #improvisation #vocalimprovisation
YouTube video by Matt Dalby
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November 12, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Tear Fet: Accidents of Practice

My next longform vocal sound improvisation premieres Fri (14 Nov) at 21:30 UK time.

My usual vocalisations near a wet Dunham Massey and reflections on interpretative practices of art and more.

youtu.be/Sn3rxQwMdPQ
Tear Fet: Accidents of Practice
YouTube video by Matt Dalby
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Tear Fet: Smell of Damp and Mushrooms - vocal sound improvisation

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Tear Fet: Smell of Damp & Mushrooms - vocal sound improvisation #improvisation #vocalimprovisation
YouTube video by Matt Dalby
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November 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Reposted by Matt Dalby
Tear Fet: Timeplace

Yesterday's longform vocal sound improvisation. Vocal noises & inconclusive spoken reflections on politics as mediated through news, and on art, emphemerality, perceptions of time, and the meaning of these things.

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Tear Fet: Timeplace
YouTube video by Matt Dalby
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November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Just delivered, a pre-loved copy of The Great Gatsby. Plugging a gap in my reading. And I'm sure has no contemporary resonance whatsoever.
November 10, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Sunday, near Dunham Massey and on the Bollin Valley Way
November 10, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Tear Fet: The Impossibility of Art - vocal sound improvisation

Should have been yesterday, but wasn't able to record then.

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Tear Fet: The Impossibility of Art - vocal sound improvisation #improvisation #vocalimprovisation
YouTube video by Matt Dalby
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November 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Scenes from Saturday's walk
November 9, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Tear Fet: Timeplace

Yesterday's longform vocal sound improvisation. Vocal noises & inconclusive spoken reflections on politics as mediated through news, and on art, emphemerality, perceptions of time, and the meaning of these things.

youtu.be/c5L6wO9b6u4?...
Tear Fet: Timeplace
YouTube video by Matt Dalby
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Tear Fet: Timeplace

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

youtu.be/c5L6wO9b6u4?...
Tear Fet: Timeplace
YouTube video by Matt Dalby
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I can't see Tesla achieving the valuation for Elon Musk's worth to reach $1tn.

And reports need to stop saying things like "If [he] delivers on the ... milestones". His workers will deliver. Musk will continue tweeting fascist horseshit from a K-hole.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Tesla shareholders approve $1tn pay package for Elon Musk
Chants of ‘Elon’ erupt after compensation plan approved despite opposition from several high-profile investors
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:52 AM
TITS! Fairfield Street, Manchester.
November 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
In which I rant about fireworks and the noisiest fucking species in between my usual obnoxious vocalisations.
November 6, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Tear Fet: F***ing Bang-Bang Night - vocal sound improvisation

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Tear Fet: F***ing Bang-Bang Night - vocal sound improvisation #improvisation #vocalimprovisation
YouTube video by Matt Dalby
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November 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
There are hats, and there are 'look at my fucking hat' hats.
November 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Tear Fet: Timeplace

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

Cunning sounds in a tiny dell close to a couple of footpaths. Walking, art, and politics.

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Tear Fet: Timeplace
YouTube video by Matt Dalby
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November 5, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Good riddance to another war criminal. Dick Cheney dies aged 84

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Dick Cheney, vice-president and giant of Republican politics, dies aged 84
Cheney, who served under presidents from Nixon to George W Bush, will be remembered for key role after 9/11
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November 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Tear Fet: Autumn Colours - vocal sound improvisation

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Tear Fet: Autumn Colours - vocal sound improvisation #improvisation #vocalimprovisation
YouTube video by Matt Dalby
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November 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Sunday 2 November, photos from Hopwood Woods.
November 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I'll share this again later with the other photos from today, but I love this flower with two ladybirds on top of a pile of bricks.
November 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM