While in college, she joined the Fabulous Dirt Sisters, an acoustic band that she traveled and played with for four years.
[5] After her time with the band, she found a job as an engineer at an acid house recording studio in Nottingham.
However, she was interested in the computer glitches and accidents that would produce unexpected sounds rather than in the sampler’s capacity to create rhythmic music.
With the help of a GPS device, a Raspberry Pi and several loudspeakers the position of the bike determines what you are listening to.
Matthews has developed sonic bikes projects all over the world, for example in Berlin, Brussels, Kijkduin, London, Magdeburg, and Porto.