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Biography
for|fictional place|Barbarella (comic book)Infobox musical artist|name = Matmos|image = Matmos Library TableSM.jpg|caption = left to right: M.C. Schmidt, Dr. Drew Daniel|image_size =|background = group_or_band|alias =|origin = San Francisco , United States|U.S. |instrument =|genre = Electronic music|Electronic , Glitch (music)|glitch , ambient techno , post-rock , Post-industrial (music)|post-industrial |occupation =|years_active = 1995 - present|label = Matador Records|Matador |associated_acts = Björk The Soft Pink Truth Disc (band)|Disc |website = http://www.brainwashed.com/matmos/ Official Site|current_members = M.C. Schmidt Drew Daniel|past_members = Matmos is an experimental electronic music duo originally from San Francisco but now residing in Baltimore signed to 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 as a pop version of the musique concrète genreCitation needed|date=May 2008. The name Matmos refers to the seething lake of evil slime beneath the city Sogo in the 1968 film Barbarella (film)|Barbarella .citation needed|date=February 2009 The name might also originate from Swedish, literally meaning "mashed food".
Notable work
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 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.
Matmos gained notoriety for their use of samples including "freshly cut hair" and "the amplified neural activity of crayfish" on their first album Cooper, Sean (2008). Allmusic|class=artist|id=p224164/biography|pure_url=yes "Matmos", AllMusicGuide.com and "recorded the snips, clicks, snaps, and squelches of various surgical procedures, then nipped and tucked them into seven remarkably accessible, melodic pieces of experimental techno" for their album A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure .Phares, Heather (2008). Allmusic|class=album|id=r523131|pure_url=yes "A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure", AllMusicGuide.com.
Personal life
M. C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel are also a couple, as stated in an interview in http://www.buttmagazine.com/? p=77 BUTT Magazine.
Schmidt formerly worked as a teacher in the New Genres Department at the San Francisco Art Institute .
Daniel has successfully defended his dissertation on the literary cult of Melancholy , directed by Janet Adelman at the University of California, Berkeley , and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of English at Johns Hopkins University . This brought the band to relocate their home base to Baltimore in August 2007. Daniel also has a personal dance music project, The Soft Pink Truth . He is a contributing writer to the online music magazine Pitchfork Media , and wrote an essay about the Throbbing Gristle album 20 Jazz Funk Greats for the Continuum Books series 33 1/3 . Both Schmidt and Daniel appeared in the Sagan (band)|Sagan music film Unseen Forces by Ryan Junell .
Discography
Albums
Matmos (album)|Matmos (1998, OLE-380)
Quasi-Objects (1998, OLE-381)
The West (album)|The West (1999)
A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure (March 13, 2001, OLE-489)
The Civil War (album)|The Civil War (2003)
The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast (2006, OLE-677)
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
References
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External links
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http://www.brainwashed.com/matmos Official Website
http://www.matadorrecords.com/matmos/ Matmos page at Matador Records
dmoz|Arts/Music/Bands_and_Artists/M/Matmos/
http://www.myspace.com/matmos1 Matmos at Myspace
http://www.furious.com/perfect/matmos.html Matmos at furious.com
http://www.xlr8r.com/tv/22 XLR8R TV Episode on Matmos
http://artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/performer.pl? ens=112 Art of the States: Matmos " Y.T.T.E. " and " The Stars and Stripes Forever " from The Civil War (album)|The Civil War (2003)
Interviews
Burns, Todd L. http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/matmos-who-needs-records Matmos RBMA video lecture session February 2010
Calvi, Danny and Jop van Bennekom http://www.buttmagazine.com/? p=77 Matmos Experimental Duo Makes Music and meets President at Hysterical Party.” Butt Magazine 5 (Autumn 2005).
Golden, Barbara. “Conversation with Matmos (Drew Daniels and Martin Schmidt).” http://cec.concordia.ca/econtact/12_2/interviews_golden.html eContact& #33; 12.2 — Interviews (2) (April 2010). Montréal: Canadian Electroacoustic Community|CEC .
Mudge, Alex. http://www.auralstates.com/2008/02/matmos-interview-drew-daniel-martin.html Interview with Matmos Aural States blog . February 20, 2008.
Sheridan, Molly. http://www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx? id=5715 Ultimate Concept: Deconstructing Matmos.” New Music Box — “People & Ideas in Profile.” Baltimore MA, September 14, 2008. Published October 1, 2008 (includes video).
Thorne, Jesse. “ http://www.maximumfun.org/blog/2006/10/podcast-your-brain-on-music-with.html Your Brain on Music with Matmos and Daniel J. Levitin.” The Sound of Young America , February 21, 2007.
Vivancos, Valérie and Rodolphe Alexis. “ http://www.vibrofiles.com/artists/artists_matmos.php#interview/Matmos We’re a Half-Breed Music Mutant Thing.” Vibrö . Paris, June 1, 2004.
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