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Matt Carlson - Not to Weigh Down One's Thoughts With the Weight of One's Shoes
A 2003 piece of digital musique concrete composed using everyday sounds taken from around the immediate environment. The sounds were not processed in any way other than editing, mixing and amplification in order to retain their personal meaning.
Children of Mom - Debut!!!
Children of Mom (Kazutaka Nomura - electric guitar, Matt Carlson - drums) is an idea of a rock band. Children of Mom is about making the wrong choices. Children of Mom changes too often for rock and roll, but is too repetitive for Improvised Music. Children of Mom is Derek Bailey playing with a high school drummer. Children of Mom has only played 2 shows, but people left during both of them.
Out of Print. Originally released in May 2005 on Mado records. Limited 100 copies. 14 tracks, 24:21. Click above to download .zip file (20.5 MB) with mp3's.
Matt Carlson - Cloud
A composition for 8 electric guitars using my own just-intonation system and invented notation. It sound like a cross between Rhys Chatham and Javanese gamelan.
Portal - live in Everett
The semi mythical Mukilteo, WA band that was playing cheeze-infused 80's dance-pop back in '99. Word.
1. Zantopalous
2. Space Camel
3. Rad
4. An Evening at the Lighthouse
5. Charmer
6. Calculon
7. Hoops
10. West Coast
Mold - Clicking Music
Improvised electronic music performed on two identical Arp Odyssey analog synthesizers. A long (30 minute) piece playing with ideas of super-imposed tempos and the continium from rhythm to pitch.
Matt Carlson - They Want Me to Listen to Each Other
A musical/cinematic musique concrete piece that attempts to use narrative and the referential meaning of it's source material to tell a story with sound. Inspired by the work of Luc Ferrari.
Schlaze Cubed - live at the Rendezvouz
A (nearly) complete show from Seattle's neo-krautrock keyboard/guitar/drums trio
1. Sars Town
4. McDougall
5. Extensions
6. Merv Squared
7. 349786
8. Pissed Off Drunken Frat Boys
9. Kill a Man on Tuesday for M
Matt Carlson - The Passage of Time (performed by the St. Helens String Quartet)
A tonal piece using several methods of rhythmic development.