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

Kazumoto Endo

forthcoming

website: http://ka.zumo.to/

LIKE WEEDS

LIKE WEEDS is the industrial noise project from ex FACIALMESS and NIKUDOREI man Kenny Sanderson. Since its inception in 2018, LIKE WEEDS has released a series of tapes and one full length cd. Drawing influence from classic industrial music, harsh noise, minimalist dub and rhythmic brutalism. LIKE WEEDS aims to present the listener with the stark anxious sound of the machine and its correlation to the human condition.

website: https://soundcloud.com/dub-specialist-1

merch: https://likeweedsnoise.bandcamp.com/

HUH

HUH Freeform-freakout / Noise improvisation duo formed in July 2007 in Tokyo Jpn by Kyosuke Terada (guitar/voice) & Takuma Mori (drums/voice). They keep looking for melting points of the groove and noise, junk , no wave , punk , jazz by free form improvisation. Their gigs are the exploration in dozens of minutes. That's very fierce and ephemeral. They have various releases, that not limiter to the domestic,and regardless to the form. And, They plan a lot of independence events in Tokyo. They had 5gigs on EU tour 14th to 27th Jan 2017. They were Invited from "LSF" Experimental music festival in Taipei 9th June 2018. Their AUS tour was 6gigs in 14th to 19th Oct 2019.

website: http://huh.jimdo.com/

merch: http://huhjpn.bandcamp.com/

Yuko Araki

Yuko Araki is a multi-instrumentalist/composer based in Tokyo. She’s also part of the acid house duo YobKiss, of the oriental/tribal dream psych band Kuunatic and one of the founding members of the neo classical noise duo Concierto de la Familia. She’s currently collaborating with London based visual artist Daisy Dickinson on a A/V performance to premiere on a European tour in Spring 2021. In 2019 she released en EP "I" for Indonesian label Gerpfast record and her debut album "II" for Italian label Commando Vanessa, followed in 2020 by a collection of live recordings (from shows at London’s Cafe Oto and Tokyo’s Kagurane). Yuko Araki performed across Europe, UK and Asia including Jogja Noise Bombing festival in Indonesia, DAO XUAN International festival in Vietnam, Cafe Oto in London (UK), Kiezsalon in Berlin (DE), Soup in Tokyo (JP), etc. She was invited to perform at Kilbi festival 2020 in Switzerland and Saturnalia Festival 2020 in Milan (IT) then cancelled for Covid 19 pandemic.

website: https://yuko-araki.tumblr.com/

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△△△ (GROUNDCAOVER.) The experimental electro dub project by Ataraw. He has many projects, GROUNDCOVER. , VWVW, that is joined as leaders, DUB PUNISHMENTS (MUROCHIN + Ataraw), dubideb (Yana + Ataraw), APOCALYPTO (Ataraw x Miura Motom), etc.

website: soundcloud.com/ataraw

TSV

TSV (Trash Sugar Video) They are VJ team they collage a lot of videos for example erotic, human body anatomy, Live-camera etc… And, They have music projects called PUNSUCA and WUUUN.

website: http://punsuca.blogspot.com

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