Matmos
Matmos is an experimental band from San Francisco, founded in 1995 by musicians MCSchmidt and Drew Daniel (solo as The Soft Pink Truth ). The name Matmos refers to a living liquid from the 1968 science fiction film Barbarella . They mainly publish on the Matador Records label .
As producers Matmos draw for the album Vespertine by Bjork responsible. Matmos also produced some songs for their follow-up album Medúlla .
style
Many of her pieces can be found near the Musique concrète . In addition to conventional instruments such as keyboards and guitars , Matmos also use various noises , samples and field recordings . Are used surgical operating instruments, turning the page of Bible pages, electric guitars five dollars , contact microphones on human hair, helium tanks , skull , playing cards , cellos , violins , insects , ukuleles , falling onto a drum tablets , barking dogs, vorlesende people under the Salt crunching on your feet or ice thawing in the sun .
Discography
Albums
- Matmos (1998, OLE-380)
- Quasi-Objects (1998, OLE-381)
- The West (1999)
- A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure (March 13, 2001, OLE-489)
- The Civil War (2003)
- The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast (2006, OLE-677)
- Supreme Balloon (2008)
- Treasure State , with So Percussion (2010)
- The Marriage of True Minds (2013)
- Ultimate Care II (2016)
- Plastic Anniversary (2019)
- The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form (2020)
EPs
- Full On Night , with Rachel's (2000, Quarterstick)
- California Rhinoplasty (February 12, 2001, OLE-501)
- Rat Relocation Program (2004)
- For Alan Turing (2006)
- The Ganzfeld EP (2012, Thrill Jockey 315)
limited edition
- Matmos Live , with J Lesser (2002)
- A Viable Alternative to Actual Sexual Contact , as Vague Terrain Recordings (2002, Piehead Records)
- A Paradise of Dainty Devices: interludes, micromedia & sound edits (limited edition of 100, for their Wet Hot EuroAmerican Summer Tour, 2007)
- Polychords , promo single released on Matador Records
Web links
- Matmos website
- Matmos at Myspace
- Matmos at Discogs (English)
- Concrete pop music. On the influence of Stockhausen and Schaeffer on Björk, Matthew Herbert and Matmos (PDF file; 201 kB)
- "Elliptical Dialectics" in EVOLVER.at
Individual evidence
- ^ Forrest Wickman: It's Not Just Björk: Women Are Tired of Not Getting Credit for Their Own Music. In: Slate. January 21, 2015, accessed August 1, 2018 .