SHOEMAKER, MATT — The sunken Plethora consumes all
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"US sound artist Matt Shoemaker has surely a voice of his own in the experimental music scene...
Blending natural sounds (field recordings) with others sourced from various electronic apparatus (both analog & digital) or acoustic instruments, Matt drags out new sense from this friction...
Barely relying on models generated by his predecessors or current peers, he has chosen instinctive introspection & autarkic audio-scripts pushing forward their own world of rich abstraction...
Most of all, his sonic refined amalgams recontextualize and question the perceptual approach of our surroundings, processing by subdued psychogeographic strokes & allusions...
After acclaimed works for Trente Oiseaux, Helen Scarsdale Agency, Oblast, & Ferns, commissioned works for radio, art galleries, and various pieces for compilations, he shaped another aural wonder for MS...
Encircled,
Swayed by Nature's babbles,
a spectrum of infinite variations,
we seem abruptedly to feel for real,
beaming with primal energy,
intensely rooted in the Now...
-
Then, collapsing within, levels below,
searching for new foundations & emergences,
all motion interiorized,
we yield hidden recesses...
-
From the humming of a fly to the roaring of metal, the shortcut is gripping, a sea of contrasts...
like finding an impossible island...
"The Sunken Plethora Consumes All" is a quest for identity through gaining more focus... a personal exegesis...
MS53
cd-r ltd to 120 copies and numbered
sleeve design and artwork by Daniel Crokaert - source material + insert photo : Matt
Shoemaker"
[label info]
www.mysterysea.net
Blending natural sounds (field recordings) with others sourced from various electronic apparatus (both analog & digital) or acoustic instruments, Matt drags out new sense from this friction...
Barely relying on models generated by his predecessors or current peers, he has chosen instinctive introspection & autarkic audio-scripts pushing forward their own world of rich abstraction...
Most of all, his sonic refined amalgams recontextualize and question the perceptual approach of our surroundings, processing by subdued psychogeographic strokes & allusions...
After acclaimed works for Trente Oiseaux, Helen Scarsdale Agency, Oblast, & Ferns, commissioned works for radio, art galleries, and various pieces for compilations, he shaped another aural wonder for MS...
Encircled,
Swayed by Nature's babbles,
a spectrum of infinite variations,
we seem abruptedly to feel for real,
beaming with primal energy,
intensely rooted in the Now...
-
Then, collapsing within, levels below,
searching for new foundations & emergences,
all motion interiorized,
we yield hidden recesses...
-
From the humming of a fly to the roaring of metal, the shortcut is gripping, a sea of contrasts...
like finding an impossible island...
"The Sunken Plethora Consumes All" is a quest for identity through gaining more focus... a personal exegesis...
MS53
cd-r ltd to 120 copies and numbered
sleeve design and artwork by Daniel Crokaert - source material + insert photo : Matt
Shoemaker"
[label info]
www.mysterysea.net