room40 is proud to announce the release of the Matt Rösner record, Empty, Expanding, Collapsing.

Empty, Expanding, Collapsing was recorded in the months after the release of 2021’s No Lasting Form. Whilst No Lasting Form documented a return to the creative process after a long period away, Empty, Expanding, Collapsing comes from a more confident and assured place.

At the heart of this record is an upright piano, loaned from a dear friend for safe keeping. Built in 1898, the piano is heavy, laden with time, a resonant lead sound board and the carefully restored hammers and strings.

These pieces started as loose piano improvisations played in the early morning light to be later assembled alongside an array of guitars, electronics, synthesisers and percussion. Whilst the basis of the tracks started as tentative improvisations, the overdubbed parts were very much painstakingly written, rewritten and aged with sounds of the surrounding dune systems seeping through the wafer thin studio walls.

Empty, Expanding, Collapsing is due for release on March 4, 2023. In the meantime, check out the video for Ripples on Time and pre-order from Bandcamp.

West Australian experimental duo Gilded return with their second album, a release nine years in the making following on from their acclaimed 2012 debut Terrane.

Gilded are Matt Rösner, best known for his solo works on 12k and room40 and his long-running collaboration with Seaworthy, and Adam Trainer who has played in various Perth-based indie and experimental rock acts over the course of two decades.

The beautifully packaged Alden CD is available December 6 2021 through UK label Fluid Audio via Bandcamp.

The digital version will be release January 24 2022. Expect details on a special live show in Perth in late January to official launch the record.

In the meantime check out Forging Iron Amongst the Trees on Soundcloud and the video for the second track Denizen on Vimeo

All tracks written, recorded by Matt Rösner and Adam Trainer

Mastering by Ian Hawgood

Design by Daniel Crossley

Print design by Craig Tattersall

November 19 2021 sees the release of Snowmelt, the collaboration between Seaworthy and Matt Rösner. For all the details see the 12k website.

The digital version is available for pre-order now, with the beautifully packaged clear vinyl version shipping later this year as soon as copies become available.

Snowmelt was recorded during two field trips to Kunama Namadgi (Mount Kosciuszko) and captures the changing landscapes of Australia's Alpine regions, increasingly at threat from the changing climate, bushfire, droughts, feral species and pollution.

Mix and Mastered by Taylor Deupree and supported by the Australian Council for the Arts.

Traianos Pakioufakis, long time Matt Rösner collaborator, is currently exhibiting a large scale work at Melbourne's Substation Billboard Gallery. On display is a large scale print of the No Lasting Form cover image alongside other cover photos taken from the room40 catalogue. The exhibition runs September 14 through to November 14 2021.

Perth's RTRFM will feature an interview with Matt Rösner on this evening's Posted show. To stream the show or to listen to a recording, visit the Posted website.

Tune in to listen to hear an exclusive new track from the forthcoming Seaworthy and Matt Rösner record, Snowmelt, due for release in November 2021 on 12k.

The new video for Celestial has been released. The album, No Lasting Form, is due this Friday on room40

Check out Matt Rösner last interview with Cyclic Selects, picking his favourite records that have inspired his music over the years.

Cyclic Selects

No Lasting Form

April 2 2021

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A car on a desert highway at dawn. Half asleep at the wheel, gradients shift the sands, spiralling into the awakening sky. Distant transmissions, civilisation at its knees.

Trying to hold on, to set solid foundations or to cling to some precious debris. Impermanent in a constantly shifting frame.