Hello all!
I know this is way early, but, I couldn't wait to post this. These
guys are one of the reasons I started composing electronic music. I am
so
stoked for this!
...and it's at The Triple Door no less....
anyway, here are the details.... I would buy your tickets soon. this
is sure to sell out!
have a great weekend!
cheers.....
Wake Up, Sensory Effect, Decibel, and the Earshot Jazz series present
an evening with
MATMOS (live--matador records-SF)
WALTER KITUNDU (live-CWF-SF)
Saturday-- October 21, 2006
The Triple Door
216 Union St. Seattle, WA
21+
6p doors
8p show
$20 adv.
$25 dos
here's a bit about our guests....
MATMOS
Matmos is an experimental electronica duo from San Francisco on the
Matador Records label. M. C. (Martin) Schmidt and Drew Daniel are the
core members, but they frequently include other artists on their
records
and in their performances, including notably J Lesser. Much of their
work could be classified within the musique concrète genre.
In 1998, Matmos remixed the Björk single Alarm Call. Subsequently,
Matmos worked with Björk on her albums Vespertine (2001) and Medúlla
(2004), as well as her Vespertine and Greatest Hits tours. In November
of
2004, Matmos spent 97 hours in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts as
artists in residence, performing music with friends, musical guests and
onlookers. The live album Work, Work, Work, essentially a "best of"
collection of the session, was released as a free download from their
website.
Schmidt busies himself working in the New Genres Department at the
San Francisco Art Institute. Daniel is working on his dissertation on
the
literary cult of Melancholy, and a personal dance music project, The
Soft Pink Truth. He is also a contributing writer to the online music
magazine Pitchfork Media. Both Schmidt and Daniel appeared in the Sagan
music DVD filmed by Ryan Junell.
The name Matmos refers to the seething lake of evil slime beneath the
city Sogo in the 1968 film Barbarella. Matmos' private record label
Vague Terrain is a reference to the publishing company and bookstore in
Paris that originally distributed the comic book upon which the film
was
based
WALTER KITUNDU
Raised in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Walter Kitundu is a San Francisco
Bay Area-based musician, instrument building, and artist whose
innovative work has done much to further turntable artistry. He was
introduced
to music in 1991 through Chicago hip hop turntablist Alton Heraldon.
Playing the turntable percussively, he found a whole range of sonic
possibilities and soon discovered that a tin can held to a stylus
produced a
clear tone rather than a thud. Realizing that the turntable had
potential as a receptive amplifier, he built a family of instruments
called
Stylophonessingle stringed instruments that resonate the stylus of the
phonograph. In time this led to the development of a stringed
turntable, or Phonoharp, the first completed in 2001. Kitundu now has
fouteen
versions of the Phonoharp, with more on the way.
Walter has also recently been collaborating with The Kronos Quartet
on a piece called "Cerulean Sweet", which is a tribute to the legendary
Charles Mingus
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