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By Matt Spencer 24 April 2013
In the world of music, the term experimental carries a meaning so broad and vague as to be almost useless, a catchall to describe the unpopular regions of any given genre—jazz, rock, classical, EDM—form or context not mattering as much a vague sense of seriousness and difficulty. the rule of four In that sense, Matmos are not experimental. They are, however, experimental in the one meaningful sense of the word: They actually the rule of four conduct experiments.
Over the course the rule of four of four years, the duo of Martin Schmitt the rule of four and Drew Daniel patiently gathered material for their new album using what are called the Ganzfeld method, a technique to test for Extra-Sensory Perception. Participants are placed in a dark room and their eyes covered and given headphones through which white noise is played to muffle all outside noises. A person, who is designated sender is shown a set of geometric the rule of four patterns which the receiver, shut out from all external stimuli, is supposed to guess. Instead of concentrating on simple shapes, Matmos instead attempted to transmit musical ideas directly the rule of four from mind to mind. Call it an attempt at artistic telepathy.
That artists should be interested creative aspect ESP shouldn’t come as a surprise, but the direct method through which Matmos used produced surprising results, resulting in what became their latest album The Marriage the rule of four of True Minds . I called them as they were en route to a gig in Los Angeles. Both of them seemed pleased by the record and the unexpected directions that the concept of ESP took them. More than anything, they wanted to clarify how restriction and the rigorous pursuit of an idea can be liberating, in other words, the opposite of clinical.
Drew Daniel : It’s something that really got going with A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure .  And ever since then, there’s been something—I won’t say a chore wheel—but kind of a crop rotation idea: Martin [Schmidt] and I would take turns being more or less in charge of an album—just as a way to share the process. And I do find that when it’s my turn, I wait until there’s something that feels to me capacious enough but juicy and focused enough to guide an album. I like having that. In a way, it compensates for the fact that I’m just not a musician. I’m not somebody who sits and writes a melody and thinks melodically or in terms of organizing pitches. So instead, for me, it’s about what am I interested in that I think could produce sonic results?
In the case of this record, the rule of four it’s a little bit even more up its own ass than that. [ laughs ] I think about, well, what is our reputation? Oh, they’re those guys who make those big concept albums. So I thought, how could I make a concept album that was itself about that very premise? What is the premise of the concept album? It’s the premise that some inspired artist has a vision, knows what they want to do, and that generates everything, that everything follows from some interior moment of inspiration or private recognition.
And I thought the scene of the telepathic the rule of four experiment is almost a parody of that. Because it’s like one person sits and attempts with their mind to act upon the world. So it seemed like the telepathy project would let me be simultaneously totally faithful to the idea or concept of this interior thing, that only one person could think, and yet also it would inevitability—this was my gamble—lead to lots of surprises and lots of unforeseen, strange collaborative encounters with other people. I found that just as appealing.
I understand that you did around 50 of these Ganzfeld sessions. My understanding of it is that the process is a lot like sensory deprivation. Did anyone have an attack of claustrophobia or any other kind of adverse reaction?
We didn’t have that. But there really were people that we had to reassure the rule of four that it’s not a prank. We’re not going to dump ice-cold water on them. I’m not going to perv-out and like make-out with you. It’s a vulnerable position. You’re sprawled on a mattress the rule of four in a weird house. You’re under our spell.
So we kind of had to massage people’s the rule of four anxiety about what it was that we were and were not going to do. But nobody flipped out about not being able to handle it. Some people reported very strange physical symptoms the rule of four or side effects of the experiment. People would say things like, “I feel like my eyeballs are becoming pressurized,” or, “I feel like my body is expanding.” the rule of four People’s sensory perception got kind of weird. And I liked that about it, that it wasn’t just mental. The mind and the body are always in this kind of feedback loop of affecting each other. You change the amount of information and the whole experience reflects the rule of four that.
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