USEFUL CONSTRAINTS
Matilde Meireles

Limited edition, released by Tone Burst, December 2020

A very familiar journey. Two locations, Lisbon and Seixal. A river in between. A ferry crossing. A journey between north and south of the greater city of Lisbon in Portugal. These are the premises that envelope the project. Useful Constraints results from a detailed exploration of timbres and rhythms using various field recording techniques. The final project takes the listener on a journey between metal, water, and time.

This edition also includes two collaborations between Matilde and Tone Burst label. A silk print printed by Galdéria in Caldas da Rainha (Portugal), and a short audio/visual element — Follow the water. The silk print is a graphic exploration of the project’s useful constraints, while the audio/visual element is a conversation between Matilde, Phil and Barry using recordings of water from the various locations where each one of them was based: Lisbon, Munich and Belfast.