links

Me, elsewise

Soul Studios, My audio business
XPfree.org, my operating-system tweak-site.
My DeviantArt page
My Amazon wishlist
My idiotically-vacuous myspace page

Other projects

Matt's finger-art (oil paintings)
The VideoVST plugin for VST audio programs (now defunct).
O, the 1-hour music film
O2, a shorter 15-minute experimental music film

My Guides

• XPfree.org, incorporating:
  1. Windows XP fixup/speedup/performance-tweaking/explodifier guide
  2. Useful Windows XP/Vista/other Freeware list
  3. OS and System RAM limitations guide (includes info about the 3GB memory switch and PAE)
  4. Tracktion optimization and performance tips
  5. How to remove Windows Media Player from Windows XP - a guide
• Matt's guide to the top-ten best freeware games
• DVD-creation-guidey-type thing
• Homemade glyconutrient recipe (adapted for New Zealanders from the australian version at askdrbird.com
• Guide to installing and tweaking Freespace 2 SCP (source code project) for optimal visual quality and/or performance
• Guide to tweaking Serious Sam (and SE) for optimal visual quality and performance
• Guide to making Halflife 2 run well on older (mainly Geforce 2) graphics cards
• (Informal) Guide to New Zealand Dialup Internet Service Providers
• Doom3 performance-tweaking for ATI-graphics cards only

Other blogs/newspages you may be interested in:

Ian & Kristy Laidlaw
A couple of ex-Japan friends of mine dashing through the world at maddening speed. Very good writers, the both of them.

Other online musicians you may be interested in:

William Fields
This guy is great - brilliant ambient & twiddly electronic music.
Ochre
This guy kicks both your own and my ass's. IDM-ish melodic-electronica ala muziq/early autechre.
Mountain Goats
Chances are you haven't heard of this guy - great lo-fi pop music, occasionally recorded on tape recorder.
Porcupine Tree
I love these guys - at least, I love their progressive rock - not their 'modern rock' stuff.
Kiwifolk
A good site for New Zealand folk music.

Other stuff:

Fuzzyrealms
My friend Richard's website - 3D design and animation.
Weebl's stuff (Home of the infamous 'Weebl and Bob')
As well as a variety of other insane flash animations. Brilliant.
Bitey-castle
Home to the many atmospheric and imaginative animations which spring forth from the mind of one Adam Phillips.
Taoism.net
An interesting spiritual site.