Matt Beswick is a tall, quiet graduate student who began singing in 1989 and took up piano in 1993, and who crept into the filk music scene in 2007. Alleged sightings at Harmuni 3 that summer and at 2t0nic in Feb 2008 sparked a rumour that he could play piano - and maybe even sing at the same time - and this was confirmed at aXXIdental in the cold, snowy Feb of 2009. Soon after, he began to learn the guitar, and life will never be quite the same again...
Matt can often be found at late night circles and SWiGGLes, or on Filknet IRC as Soir, LJ as raimei or Twitter as soiry. or by email (in no-spam-o-vision) at:
soir _a@t_ fuzzysock _d.o.t_ net
Soir-Lilac Blackwing, or more simply Soir, is an incorrigible familiar-spirit, a fuzzy white dragon who has written an eternity's worth of fabulous songs and placed them within a number of secret books, which he never lets anyone read because he doesn't know if anyone - not excluding himself - is quite ready for them yet. Sometimes, he slips up and leaves this book open for perusal, and in these desperate few moments, a certain tall, quiet someone sneaks a glance...
... and often, music results. (The rest of the time, things aren't very interesting, and it is not this author's place to bore you with minutiae.)
last update: 2010/feb/09