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Artist
Wade Matthews
12+ albums
Field Recordingexperimentalfree improvisationfree jazzilse
about
American improviser, composer and author, Wade Matthews, has been living in Madrid, Spain, since 1989. Besides his solo concerts, he performs in duo with Toulouse-based dancer Valerie Metivier and with Norwegian percussionist, Ingar Zach, as well as one-offs with innumerable improvisers in concerts and festivals throughout the world (New York, Paris, Madrid, London, Berlin, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Beirut, Montevideo, Los Angeles, Oslo, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Toulouse, etc.). Recent activities include two performances at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, at the Annual Festival of the International Society for Computer Music, and at the Reina Sof’a Museum of Contemporary Art in Madrid. Electronic music influences all of his work, including his purely acoustic use of woodwinds, which he approaches as acoustic synthesizers, emphasizing the nature of sound as matter unto itself rather than as simply material from which to generate phrases. He is especially interested in the permeability of sound and sonic discourse to its surroundings and has extensively explored numerous aspects of site-specific improvisation, both musically and in his essays. His electronic work is generated purely through the use of synthesis, with no recourse to sampling, a decision based not so much on aesthetic criteria as on a particular sense of how he wants musical process to interface with instrumental praxis. Matthews earned his Doctor of Musical Arts from Columbia University in New York, where
