Matmos October 9, 2006

MATMOS
with So Percussion

Two nights!
Sunday 8 October, 2006 @ 8pm
Monday 9 October, 2006 @ 8pm

Location: The Music Gallery at St. George the Martyr Church, 197 John St.

Tickets for each show:
$28 advance (on sale at Penguin Music, Rotate This + Soundscapes)

Matmos is M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel, aided and abetted by many others. In their recordings and live performances over the last nine years, Matmos have used the sounds of: amplified crayfish nerve tissue, the pages of bibles turning, a bowed five string banjo, slowed down whistles and kisses, water hitting copper plates, the runout groove of a vinyl record, a $5.00 electric guitar, liposuction surgery, cameras and VCRs, chin implant surgery, contact microphones on human hair, violins, rat cages, tanks of helium, violas, human skulls, cellos, peck horns, tubas, cards shuffling, field recordings of conversations in hot tubs, frequency response tests for defective hearing aids, a steel guitar recorded in a sewer, electrical interference generated by laser eye surgery, whoopee cushions and balloons, latex fetish clothing, rhinestones on a dinner plate, Polish trains, insects, ukelele, aspirin tablets hitting a drum kit from across the room, dogs barking, people reading aloud, life support systems and inflatable blankets, records chosen by the roll of dice, an acupuncture point detector conducting electrical current through human skin, rock salt crunching underfoot, solid gold coins spinning on bars of solid silver, the sound of a frozen stream thawing in the sun, a five gallon bucket of oatmeal. Matmos have also been the backing band for Icelandic electro-pop queen, BJORK.

For this tour, Matmos will be joined by So Percussion, a contemporary percussion quartet. So Percussion (Douglas Perkins, Adam Sliwinski, Jason Treuting, and Lawson White) is a captivating group, hailed for their "brilliant" and "consistently impressive" performances by the New York Times. Formed in New Haven, CT in 1999, So has already made a name as one of the most exciting young ensembles in the country. Recently, they've been featured at Carnegie Hall, the Bang on a Can Marathon, the BAM Next Wave Festival, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Miller Theatre, Joe's Pub, the Other Minds Festival, Merkin Hall, The Roundtop Festival, and on WNYC's New Sounds and Soundcheck.

So's continuing collaborations have already produced many new works, including David Lang's groundbreaking the so-called laws of nature, written in 2002. In the near future, this project will yield new pieces by Martin Bresnick, Paul Lansky, and Dennis DeSantis. So has received the Chamber Music America/ASCAP Adventurous Programming award for these efforts. They have also garnered acclaim for other creative projects, such as a collaboration with the electronic duo Matmos and the group’s own multimedia show 8 Incidentals.

So's educational initiatives have resulted in residencies at percussion programs all across the country, as well as with composition departments at Princeton, Harvard, and Columbia. So's first two albums are now available on Cantaloupe Music. So performs on Pearl drums and Adams musical instruments.