Name: Matmos & Jennifer Walshe
Start: 2024-11-25T20:00:00+01:00
Location: KM28

Matmos & Jennifer Walshe reunite after making their trio debut at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival last year.
Mon Nov 25 | Doors 20:00 | Concert 20:30
KM28, Karl-Marx-Straße 28, Berlin
Matmos is Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt, auteurs in the world of electronic music and sampling culture whose very first album sampled highly unusual sound sources such as the amplified nerve tissue of crayfish. Ever since, they have made music out a wildly heterogeneous set of objects and sources, including the sound of the pages of bibles turning, water hitting copper plates, liposuction surgery, cameras and VCRs, chin implant surgery, contact microphones on human hair, rat cages, tanks of helium, a cow uterus, human skulls, snails, cigarettes, cards shuffling, laser eye surgery, whoopee cushions, balloons, latex fetish clothing, rhinestones, Polish trains, insects, life-support systems, inflatable blankets, rock salt, solid gold coins, the sound of a frozen stream thawing in the sun, a five-gallon bucket of oatmeal, snails interrupting the path of a laser and altering the pitch of a light sensitive theremin, a PVC police riot shield, silicon breast implants, and their own washing machine.
Jennifer Walshe is a composer and performer whose recent projects include TIME TIME TIME, an opera written in collaboration with the philosopher Timothy Morton, and THE SITE OF AN INVESTIGATION, a 30-minute epic for Walshe’s voice and orchestra, commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland. Walshe has worked extensively with AI. ULTRACHUNK, made in collaboration with Memo Akten in 2018, features an AI-generated version of Walshe. A Late Anthology of Early Music Vol. 1: Ancient to Renaissance (Tetbind 2020), her third solo album, uses AI to rework canonical works from early Western music history.
photo by Point of View