Matmos

Matmos is M. C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel. Currently based in Baltimore, the duo formed in San Francisco in the mid 1990s, and self-released their eponymous debut album in 1997.

Marrying the conceptual tactics and noisy textures of object-based musique concrete to a rhythmic matrix rooted in electronic pop music, the two quickly are known for their highly unusual sound sources: amplified crayfish nerve tissue, the pages of bibles turning, water hitting copper plates, liposuction surgery, washing machines, chin implant surgery, contact microphones on human hair, rat cages, tanks of helium, a cow uterus, human skulls, snails, plastic objects, cards shuffling, laser eye surgery, whoopee cushions, balloons, latex fetish clothing, rhinestones, insects, life support systems, inflatable blankets, rock salt, solid silver ingots, the sound of a frozen stream thawing in the sun, a five gallon bucket of oatmeal. These raw materials are manipulated into surprisingly accessible forms, and often supplemented by traditional musical instruments played the group’s large circle of friends and collaborators.

Dr. Drew Daniel is an associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University in the Department of English Literature and Schmidt is a homemaker.

Their most recent album is entitled The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form, and was released on Thrill Jockey Records In August of 2020. It involves 99 collaborators and it’s tempo is entirely at 99 Beats per Minute and is around 3 hours long.

A good introduction might be here, with a video made entirely by Matmos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S71q3vNBK4E

If you’d like to talk to them, they are on twitter at @lordmcess for Schmidt and @DDDrewDaniel for Daniel.

website: http://vague-terrain.com/

merch: https://matmos.bandcamp.com/

Jeff Carey

Jeff Carey makes synthetic noise music with an physically controlled software based instrument of his own development called ctrlKey. His music is abstract and sculptural, full of shapes and gesture, colored by noise bursts, percussive glitches and shifting resonance. In recent work, he has incorporated lighting projection to explore the space between visceral and the external embodiment of sound. He builds physically controllable custom software synthesis instruments and is interested in exploring immediate and flexible sound production with virtuosity in electronic music.

"He's acting on raw instinct here - he refuses the clinical approach to programming software or composing music, and strives to throw himself bodily at his machines, replacing all mechanical moving parts with human flesh, blood, and bone. In pursuit of this all-organic goal, virtually everything else is jettisoned, starting with recognizable notes or melody." – Sound Projector magazine editor Ed Pinsent

He is an active member of Baltimore's music scene. He organizes local concerts for touring electronic musicians and is a co-curator of the High Zero Festival for improvised and experimental music and for the Diffusion Festival for electronic multichannel music.

Index[off], released on July 3rd is only available via https://jeffcarey.bandcamp.com/album/index-off

website: http://jeffcarey.foundation-one.org

merch: https://jeffcarey.bandcamp.com

Abstract Black

Abstract Black (Jayve Montgomery) is a Nashville sound artist and multi-instrumentalist of the Chicago school of free, creative and improvised music, Sonic Healing Ministries sector. This performance features woodwinds and bells processed through a chain of abyssal granularity. He will be performing on Shawnee//Yuchi//Cherokee East land.

artist statement:

epigenetic tendency
towards (to waves)
exploring being relative
to someone who has listened to, been,
the sounds at the bottom of a
  slave ship
and rewarded in this afterlife by being purchased for animal husbandry and other common tasks of human livestock...

website: jayvemontgomery.com

merch: https://abstractblack.bandcamp.com/

Dream Chambers

Dream Chambers is the name for singer song-writer Jess Chambers' experimental electronic transformation. From a background in delicately orchestrated folk music, she has embarked on a journey into the world of music technology. Her sound - actualized through a mass of synthesizers, sequencers, and vocal processors - counterpoints heavy sub-bass with crystalline granular synthesis, and vocal harmony rooted in gospel and folk traditions.

merch: dreamchambers.bandcamp.com/

Roger Melon

Roger Melon uses evolving natural landscapes, digitally mangled and juxtaposed upon modern architecture, in company of generative arpeggiations.

Instagram: @msp_aint