Heroines of the U.S.S.R is the solo project of School of Unthink collaborator Matt Spokes. Heroines use(s) home made software, abused instruments (largely glockenspiel), and tiny fragments of found sound to follow soundscapes through cycles of decomposition and reformation. Most records follow a particular subject. Thus far, favourites have been: rain, ice, dark cities, imagined animals, books, ghosts. The most recent Heroines release, Spring Snow, takes as its starting points one Spring’s fall, a series of decaying tones, and a collection of manipulated, chimeric field recordings. …
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