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NEWS

5/4/12
Last week ended with the bittersweet end of post production on the short film I scored, C.B., which will be playing at SIFF.  The first showing is Memorial Day, May 28, 2012 at the Uptown in Queen Anne at 4pm.  This short was such a joy to work on and turned out really great.  It's always nice when a project is complete, but sad when you enjoyed working with everyone and really had fun with the creative process.  There's a chance there's a full-length in my future if the production's kickstarter reaches it's goal - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1083557099/the-anniversary-1/posts/220668?ref=email&show_token=ad9d62df5b761501. 
There may also be a new show in the near future, please check back soon.
Lana Del Ray just came up on my iPod, so that's all for now.  Thanks.

4/18/12
The show my band, Vinca Minor, is playing on 4/22/12 received a nice plug in the current issue of The Stranger:

Yards, Post Paint, Vinca Minor (Comet) The side project of Southerly's Krist Krueger, Yards essays expansive, elegant post-rock in the vein of genre standard-bearers such as Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Rachel's. He achieves a panoramic, orchestral grandeur that avoids the sometimes sentimental bombast of some others in this realm, like Explosions in the Sky and Sigur Rós. Vinca Minor (the artistic vehicle for Seattle-via-Detroit musician Matt Menovcik, ex-Saeta and Ms. Led) specializes in an eerie breed of minimalist loner-folk rock somewhere between early Red House Painters and Jandek. DAVE SEGAL


4/17/12
One of the shorts I scored recently, Zinka, by the Collin Joseph Neal will be showing at this year's STIFF on Thursday, May 10 at 8:00pm at the Grand Illusion Cinema in Seattle.  It's a really great short and I'm very proud to have been a part of it.  If you have a chance, please check it out.

4/11/12
Special thanks to Bob Smolenski for helping make the new site happen and for all of his great artist work.  I'm very grateful.
I have a show on 4/22/12 with Vinca Minor.  You can find more details on that on the shows page.
This weekend, I will be finishing up recording for the SIFF Fly Film Challenge film I am working on called I Like You.  I'm really happy with this score and very excited to have a live string quartet performing the pieces.  I'm especially happy with the song I wrote for the end credits, which was translated into and sung in French, by my extremely talented friend, Ines Andrade.  Her vocals really make the song.  Thanks, Ines.

4/10/12
I'm working on the construction of this new site.  Changes should be happening quickly.

Winter 2010 - 11
Current projects are working on a dance piece with Ines Andrade, still writing songs with Michael Halen, and working on new Vinca Minor music.

Spring 2010
- Sound designer for the film The Memory of Rain by Alex Gonzalez   

- Co-composer for the film Citizen Mayor by Koi Walker.  
www.citizenmayor.org

- Collaborating with a lyricist Michael Halen.

- Created a short film with footage from the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill. Sountrack is "Descent" from the Vinca Minor album. 
View it on youtube.com

Winter 2009
- Working on electronic ambient project called Vinca Minor. To be released Feb 2010

- Matt is very excited about his upcoming show with Kelli Rudick in Portland, OR on 10/2/09