Ratskin Records and Pro Arts Gallery are proud to present the Oakland stop of Jeff Carey’s “Imaginary Network Topologies” Virtual Tour.
10/24/2020. 8 PM PST / 11PM EST
MATMOS
matmos.bandcamp.com
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.
WIZARD APPRENTICE
wizard-apprentice.com
wizardapprentice.bandcamp.com
WIZARD APPRENTICE (pronouns: she and/or they) is a music producer, live performer, and video artist. As a highly sensitive introvert, her multimedia projects are strategies for managing an overwhelming world. Her music is a combination of lyrical precision, minimalistic composition, and technically-amateurish charm. She creates media that takes advantage of user-friendly technology, skipping time consuming learning curves to focus on inventing highly relatable language for subtle personal experiences. She’s not a gear-head, rather, a digital folk artist who vividly and simplistically expresses her inner world using resourcefulness and honesty. Her video work incorporates green screen graphics, digital puppetry, and compositing to produce imagery that’s cerebral, campy, and hypnotic. She combines song and video to create multimedia live performances that explore intimate emotional themes.
“Carter’s singing harkens to that of a Catholic psalm or some sort of postmodern plainsong. Comparisons to Laurie Anderson would be appropriate. Although where Anderson confronts culture with a sideways glance, carter is entangled and entranced in the eccentric minutiae of her own psyche.” - The Wire, November 2018
DAX PIERSON
daxpierson.bandcamp.com
ratakin.org/artists/daxpierson.html
Dax Pierson is a musician/producer who has called the East Bay home for 20 years. He was co-founder of the bands Subtle and 13 & God, a touring member of left of center hip-hop group Themselves and an associate of the Anticon collective. In 2005 Subtle encountered black ice in the middle of the country while on tour and flipped over, leaving Dax with a spinal cord injury in the 5th and 6th vertebrae. Since his individual fingers are now paralyzed, Dax has switched to using a laptop controlled with iPad apps in order to produce. The last 12 years have been spent exploring the possibilities that technology could offer, often with time-consuming learning curves. His work is currently informed by limitations, college radio segues, hip-hop, ‘90s post-rock, odd time signatures, new techno, ambient drones, bobbing head beats and sentimentality.
JEFF CAREY
http://jeffcarey.foundation-one.org
https://jeffcarey.bandcamp.com
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
CORAL REMAINS (ritual for JSun)
coralremains.bandcamp.com
CORAL REMAINS (formerly Styrofoam Sanchez) is a post industrial sound and sculptural installation personifying the trash island in the pacific gyre. Spawning from a hybrid of human DNA and trash, CORAL REMAINS is a dystopian, amalgamated magnification of failed civilizations, spliced rogue technologies gone awry spawning dark pulses of technological neurosis and inner psychosis . When fish put fin to sand then you'll understand, fish can carry guns. CORAL REMAINS represents the last molecule before total conversion of humans into futuristic trash receptacles. Human, your skull will be in a museum.
DJ HEADBOOGLE (intro & outro)
headboggle.bandcamp.com
Derek Gedalecia, a.k.a. Headboggle, has been performing electronic keyboard-based soundscapes for several years in the Bay Area in over a hundred local performances at venues ranging from GTK to YBCA. Incorporating lowbrow with highbrow art, music, and comedy, Head Boggle’s intent is to fuse together a new ecstatic improvisational performance style with a carefully crafted musical underbed. In his formative years, Gedalecia studied classical and ragtime piano from noted ragtime composer/revivalist Dr. Brian Dykstra. .
Streaming Link:
youtube.com/c/proartsgalleryofficial
Will also be linked on Ratskin.org
We will also be showing a trailer of the Ratskin Records Mixed reality Festival co produced by Sharmi Basu and Tieraney Carter.