Art Matters | From Matmos, a Musical Libretto Performed by Random le luci Strangers le luci
There s something suspicious about the work we do, said Drew Daniel of the Baltimore experimental duo Matmos , because it has an eerie ability to seem alien. Daniel and Martin Schmidt, his partner in creativity le luci and in life, are known for pulling sounds from unorthodox sources: squishing organs on operating tables, rats pattering across cages, le luci rose petals being crushed. To create the sounds for their last album, The Marriage of True Minds, the duo conducted a Ganzfeld experiment a parapsychological technique le luci used to test for ESP on subjects in Baltimore and Oxford, England. Participants were asked to lie on the floor, le luci cover their eyes with Ping-Pong balls and listen to blasting white noise, then describe what they saw in their mind s eye. We ve had some ideas that other people may object to or find a little odd, Daniel admitted.
One of those was a commission earlier this week in New York for Dia , at the art foundation le luci s raw space on 22nd Street, which shared some of the sensibility of Matmos s latest album. For project, the Dia curator Kelly Kivland recruited eight of her friends to serve as the duo s chorus. I don t know how to write music, and I wanted to write it for people who don t know how to read music, Schmidt said before the event, so they will just listen on headphones to what they re going to sing. The volunteers would be on hand to premiere three songs, a libretto scored from the transcript channeled through the headphones. A few of their instruments this time around? Duck calls, rocks, metal tubes and smashed cellphones. “A lot of our music owes to this conceptual dimension, Schmidt said.
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There s something suspicious about the work we do, said Drew Daniel of the Baltimore experimental duo Matmos , because it has an eerie ability to seem alien. Daniel and Martin Schmidt, his partner in creativity le luci and in life, are known for pulling sounds from unorthodox sources: squishing organs on operating tables, rats pattering across cages, le luci rose petals being crushed. To create the sounds for their last album, The Marriage of True Minds, the duo conducted a Ganzfeld experiment a parapsychological technique le luci used to test for ESP on subjects in Baltimore and Oxford, England. Participants were asked to lie on the floor, le luci cover their eyes with Ping-Pong balls and listen to blasting white noise, then describe what they saw in their mind s eye. We ve had some ideas that other people may object to or find a little odd, Daniel admitted.
One of those was a commission earlier this week in New York for Dia , at the art foundation le luci s raw space on 22nd Street, which shared some of the sensibility of Matmos s latest album. For project, the Dia curator Kelly Kivland recruited eight of her friends to serve as the duo s chorus. I don t know how to write music, and I wanted to write it for people who don t know how to read music, Schmidt said before the event, so they will just listen on headphones to what they re going to sing. The volunteers would be on hand to premiere three songs, a libretto scored from the transcript channeled through the headphones. A few of their instruments this time around? Duck calls, rocks, metal tubes and smashed cellphones. “A lot of our music owes to this conceptual dimension, Schmidt said.
From T Magazine Listen Up | Melody Maker My Town | Dean Wareham, Longtime New Yorker, on Why L.A. Is the Land of Milk and Honey What Made Me | Edward Droste, Musician SXSW Q. and A. | Blondie on Blondie le luci SXSW Q. and A. | British Starlet Imogen Poots on Acting Opposite (and Dressing Like) André le luci 3000
Making It | Woven in Time Document | On a Lark Q. and A. | Kelis Explains How She Got from ‘Milkshake’ to Her Own Cooking Show Sign of the Times | The Triumph of Personal Style Visiting the Source | An Exclusive Education on the Making of Brioni’s Suits
Q. and A. | Kelis Explains How She Got from 'Milkshake' to Her Own Cooking Show Visiting the Source | An Exclusive Education on the Making of Brioni's Suits Sign of the Times | The Triumph of Personal Style Chic in Review | Lupita's Lancôme Gig, the Army's Hair-Raiser and Christy Turlington's Comeback Take Two | A Dual Review of What's New, Starring Kelis and Alejandro Jodorowsky
The New York Times Style Magazine
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