Matt Dickey: Guitar, Guitar Synth, Keyboard Synth, Laptop, Loops, Samples, Triggers, LIVE Re-mixing, Manipulation
Zahra Hashemian: guest collaborator on Vocals (check out "Hafizeract Remix" and "Improv Squared 3" -- pieces that are essentially improvised remixes of improv sessions)
Tracey Kroll: collaborator on drums and rhythm tracks -- from late night "live looping" sessions. We sync our laptops, push record, and these pieces are part of what comes out of it! Hopefully more to come soon...stay tuned, and check out his page as well as his band Spinning Plates for some more great live electronics!
Influences
Anything that is worth listening to more than once...
Sounds Like
A dude with a guitar, laptop running Albleton LIVE, a guitar synth, a keyboard/MIDI controller, and many effects/control pedals. Infinite looping and interlocking parts/improvised ideas...
Check out this video shot by One Blue Monkey. It cuts in at the end of "String Theory" with a segway into "Eternal Jamnation." It is a good example of how In The Loop will go from one piece to another, with live looping and live re-mixing. Matt builds the groove from the ground up and eventually tears it down (although the video cuts out before that happens!). :
This video is something different -- Matt has been working on multimedia and computer programming, and this video is a demonstration of how he uses the MIDI data from his guitar-synth to control a custom made visualization patch:
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What is "In The Loop"?...simply put, it is a different concept in solo music performance. Equipped with an electric guitar, synthesizer and laptop, Matt Dickey interacts in real time with multiple layers of sound.
Blending mostly spontaneous electro-musical creations with some pre-arranged loops, he takes you on a unique sonic journey. Groovy funk, spaced out jazz, and improvised jams collide in an electronic realm where anything else might happen! In The Loop is a one-man-band with unlimited musical and technological possibilities - soon evolving to include multimedia and dance collaborations, as well as other audience-participation interactive technologies.
About the man behind the electronics:
Matt Dickey is a guitarist, composer/arranger and engineer based in NYC. As an undergrad, he studied with Dave Stoltz (of the Dickey Betts Band) and Bob Carabillo at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. Currently, he is a grad student in NYU's Music Tech program.
His musical influences are many, ranging from James Brown, Herbie Hancock and The Grateful Dead to many other jazz artists and classical composers such as Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Tito Puente, Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy, and many others. More recently, DJ Shadow, DJ Cam and Portishead have stuck out as inspiring musical forces.
His musical projects have included leading his own former band The Truth, sideman status with various NYC projects such as Dr. Bellows, Avatar, and Ekayani and The Healing Band, and frequenting as a guest with Hartford's own The Thang. He often plays guitar for Philadelphia based R&B Soul singer R.C. Holmes, and he has toured briefly with Big Sam's Funky Nation.
On the side, Matt has been delving into audio production, and over the past few years he has been developing his audio skills and adding more electronics, effects and technology as a creative approach. This unique combination of musical prowess and technological innovation now enables him to perform on stage completely by himself, as "the electronic one-man-band," In The Loop.
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Hello Matt,Excellent music! We're playing at the Towne Crier in Pawling, NY this coming saturday Nov. 24th. Stop out and see us! Jim Weider - Guitar Rodney Holmes - drums Mitch Stein - guitar Steve Lucas - bass
