Charles Matthews has been played on NTS in shows including Fractal Meat On A Spongy Bone, featured first on 22 November 2016. Songs played include 89º.

There is more than one artist working under this name.

1) Oxford born Charles Matthews started working under the name of Ardisson as an industrial techno/noise project while living in Yokohama, Japan in 1997. Following a series of limited CDs on his own Ether Wins Purity label, he moved to London where he was taken by the sound of clattering snares and sub bass, cutting his teeth with a late night DJ slot at pirate-turned-internet radio InterFACE.

2) Born in 1966, Charles Matthews studied at the Royal College of Music, London, and was an organ scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge. His teachers have included Beryl Tichbon, Gwilym Isaac, David Pettit, Patricia Carroll, Nicholas Danby, Charles Spinks and Dr Richard Marlow.

Charles pursues a varied career as pianist, organist, harpsichordist, composer and teacher, performing and broadcasting for radio and television within the UK and internationally. He has won numerous awards, perhaps most notably the first prize in the 1999 Franz Liszt Memorial Competition in Budapest. His recordings have been issued by Olympia, Priory, Guild and Touch; he has also composed a collection of pieces for flute and piano, recently published by Schott.

In recent months Charles has performed in a variety of venues in the UK, including the Royal Albert Hall, as well as in Austria, France, Israel, Spain, Switzerland and China.

Charles is organist of St Catharine's Church, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire; he also works extensively with children, is an organ tutor at Birmingham Conservatoire and contemporary music coach on the annual Curso Internacional Matisse at San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain.

Charles is married with three children.

For further information please see www.charlesmatthews.co.uk