Kollodi, Seth Nehil, JACK Quartet, Bonnie Mitsch's composition class at Portland State University, David Hirvonen, James Sumner, Ted Holdt, Sara Mapelli, Carmen Rezendez, Jarratt Taylor, Jonathan Sielaff, Lindsay Kaplan, Mark Owens, Roger Norton, Charlie Copeland, David Abel, Joel Taylor, Joseph Bradshaw, Chris Piuma, Jesse Durost, Dan Senn, Brandon and Branick, Jean-Paul Jenkins, John Berendzen, Laurel, Andy Kennedy, Ray, Flo, Linda Austin, Ashley Edwards, peeps at Department of Safety in Ana Cortes WA, Bethany Wright and her Time Arts class at PNCA, John KneeCrash, Ben Kates, Tom Torston, Andrew Wilshusen
Influences
recently (june, '08) listening to... butch morris, bronius kutavicius, stevie wonder, jose maceda, eric dolphy, morton feldman, mary j. blige, hugh davies, guiseppe ielasi, julius eastman, kraig grady, pat waing, seth nehil, earl brown, olivia block, MIT lectures on crystallography, chaka kahn, vocal music of burundi, friends in town (jonathan seilaff, matt carlson, scott goodwin, tyler wilcox, jean-paul jenkins, bob jones, et al)...
M a t t M a r b l e (b.1979 Jackson, MS) is a composer/performer and writer/researcher living in Portland, Oregon. I have composed works for film, theatre, dance, c.d., stereo diffusion, multimedia performance, and instrumental ensembles. Currently and for the past 5 years I have been focusing on a practice of scored improvisation, which emphasizes collective self-organization, social and sonic geometry, and rhythmic elasticity. Exploring social e-motions without a predetermined or singular cultural ideology or aesthetic. Composing for nervous systems as much as sound. Also jamming alot with friends on prepared synthesizer.
I studied music composition at CalArts (w/Michael Pisaro) and music theory at Portland State University (blobbyblobblobby) and the University of Paris, VIII, St. Denis-Vincennes (w/Eugenia Duta). I received his B.A. in Speech & Hearing Science from Portland State University and currently work as a full time Research Assistant for the National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research (NCRAR) at the VA hospital in Portland, OR. There, I assist in studies pertaining to the "auditory blink" phenomenon, tinnitus ('ringing in the ears'), and word recognition tests.
In the fall of 2008 I will be happily moving to New Jersey to begin the graduate program in Music Composition at Princeton University.
MORE THINGS CAN BE FOUND AT THIS SITE... (or "I like Virb better than Myspace")
http://virb.com/memarble
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T O O L S O F M I N D
Edited by Matt Marble, published by FO A RM Magazine (see below)
The works gathered in this book reflect particularly the resource of their own path of origin - the mind. Each contribution offers a model, design, plan, or developmental process [...] Conjoining performance scores by international artists with diagrams from diverse fields of thought, this book takes form as mosaic imagery : a collectivized tool of intuition. (From the introduction by Matt Marble)
Featured Artists: David Abel, Peter Ablinger, Jonas Baes, Seth Cluett, Christian Keston, Pauline Oliveros, Adam Overton, Mark Owens, Michael Pisaro, REBAR Collective, Tara Rodgers, Phillip Schultze, Dan Senn, Craig Sheperd, Scott Smallwood, Yasunao Tone, Giancarlo Toniutti, Heather Watkins.
The book can be purchased here, via PayPal:
http://foarm.artdocuments.org/issues.htm
I was interviewed about the book for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona (MACBA) by Barbara Held for the premier of their new online radio series (Lines of Sight/Linies de Visio):
http://rwm.macba.es/ca/curatorial
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FO A RM MAGAZINE
With Seth Nehil, Bethany Wright, and Joseph Bradshaw, I co-edit FO A RM Magazine, a multimedia forum for arts and culture, emphasizing experimental sound practices and auditory culture. Our latest issue, Autonomy (5), features writings and/or audio by Michael Schumacher, Achim Wollscheid, Adam Overton, Arsenije Jovanovich, Barbara Held, Giancarlo Toniutti, et al. This issue also offers the first critical expose, in English, on Philippino composer/pianist/ethnomusicologist Jose Maceda: featuring writings/sound by Jonas Baes, Ramon Pagayon Santos, Subhash Kak, and Mat Marble -->
Angklung? Guitars? Zithers? Too much. These are wonderful pieces and the social aspect of the performances is tremendously inspiring. Thanks for adding me, Matt. Will return ..
What people most passionately want is living wholeness and living unison, not their own isolate salvation of their "souls." For us, the vast marvel is to be alive. For us, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. Whatever the unborn and the dead may know, they cannot know the beauty, the marvel of being alive in the flesh. The dead may look after the afterwards. But the magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone, and ours only for a time. We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. My soul knows that I am part of the human race, my soul is an organic part of the great human soul. In my own very self, I am part of my family. There is nothing of me that is alone and absolute except my mind, and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself, it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.
So that my individualism is really an illusion. I am part of the great whole, and I can never escape. But I can deny my connections, break them, and become a fragment. Then I am wretched.
What we want is to destroy our false, inorganic connections, especially those related to money, and re-establish the living organic connections, with the cosmos, the sun and earth, with family and humankind. Start with the sun, and the rest will slowly, slowly happen.
I like the way that your categories choice just says "other"- that fits well:) - I particularly like the way that the fragments of melody bleed through in Grant park cycles...
