Space Oddity Recollection #8

February 2020

MARC MATTER

Original music produced by Marc MatterGerman sound artist, explorer and former member of the art group, Institut fuer Feinmotorik and of The Durian Brothers. She collaborated with many artists, including the poet Dagmara Krausthe performer Veridiana Zurita and visual artists Haseeb Ahmed and Tris Vonna-Michell. Interested in manipulating the sounds of voice and speech and searching for semantic collisions, which he presents live and in recorded performances, as well as for radio compositions.

The mix contains pieces from the artist's solo sound projects and collaborations, which include:

SOLITARY WORKS

* Marc_Matter_-_NACHRICHTENTSTELLT_(SWR_Radio_2016)_final_passage
The final passage of my radio composition NACHRICHTENTSTELLT, an electroacoustic gluing of sampled radio news.

* Marc_Matter_-_Weni_Woun_(2016)
A short piece consisting of short samples taken from radio news, reworked on a CDJ player with the knob back and forth to make palindromes, resulting in a kind of imaginary language.

* Marc_Matter_-_Could_Change_(No realizado_2019)
A word composition using fragments of news headlines voiced by voice synthesis, played on a sampler. Akai MPC.

* Marc_Matter_-_Another_Great_(work in progress 2019)
Another word composition, still in progress, using more fragments of news headlines, voiced by voice synthesis, played on a sampler Akai MPC.

* Voiceover_-_Breakthrough_(tanuki_2014)
Side B of a seal tape Tanuki based in Brussels, manipulated voice composition, abstract sound poetry.

* Voiceover_-_L_Oeil_Ecclatante_(Chocolate_Monk_2013)_Extract1
An excerpt from the CDr produced by the label Chocolate Monk based in Brighton, recordings of my own voice manipulated with turntables, mixer and effects.

* Voiceover_-_L_Oeil_Ecclatant_(Chocolate_Monk_2013)_extract2
An excerpt from the CDr produced by the label Chocolate Monk based in Brighton, recordings of my own voice manipulated with turntables, mixer and effects.
Collaborations

* - _/_Dagmara_Kraus_-_Entstehung_dunkel_(SWR_Radio_2014)_excerpt1
A radio composition excerpt, written and composed together with the poet and translator Dagmara Kraus, abstract sound poetry.

* Marc_Matter_/_Dagmara_Kraus_-_Entstehung_dunkel_(SWR_Radio_2014)_extract2
Another excerpt of radio composition, written and composed together with the poet and translator Dagmara Kraus, abstract sound poetry.

* Marc_Matter_/_Robert_M_Ochshorn_-_Propagation_de_nouvel_alphabet_lettrique_(2012)
Realization of an interactive web-based application of the letterist alphabet, originally formulated by Isidore Isou in 1947 - Voice & electronic manipulation: Marc Matter; software engineer: Robert M Ochshorn

* Marc_Matter_/_Stefan_Roemer_-_Deconceptual_Voicings_-_A_Child_Of_Pop_And_Music__(Slimvolume_2019)
The opening track of the LP with music made up of artists' voices, taken from interviews from the essay film "Conceptual Paradise".

Music of groups in which he has participated:
* The Durian Brothers - Planete Sauvage (2009)
youtube.com/watch?v=QOxX9ZRAY64&list=PLTBTOdOdmKaUgRdAtrY9lPhE-QBGj5x8g

* The Durian Brothers - Weggeputscht (2014).
youtube.com/watch?v=1NXORvgZuNk

* Insttut für Feinmotorik - ...Ja das ist Kunst! (2002)
youtube.com/watch?v=OhBKDbvciCs&list=OLAK5uy_mRbgjPzeAD_fw3DkRn3nJ-LfKKCmYPv5Ek&index=7

* Institut für Feinmotorik - Rufen Sie die Polizei (2002)
youtube.com/watch?v=2QsAC7CA2bI&list=OLAK5uy_mRbgjPzeAD_fw3DkRn3nJ-LfKCmYPv5Ek&index=4

Enjoy the mix. February 2020. Produced by monikapich.