FRIDAY April 23rd,
@ Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton NJ, 8:30 PM
***NOTE: CHANGE OF TIME AND VENUE!!!
**This event is produced in part with the symposium and conference “The Making and Marketing of Music in the Digital Age.” This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, the Department of Music, and the Center for Information and Technology Policy at Princeton University.
Mattin
Mattin is a Basque artist working with noise and improvisation. His work seeks to address the social and economic structures of experimental music production through live performance, recordings and writing.
Using a conceptual approach, he aims to question the nature and parameters of improvisation, specifically the relationship between the idea of ''freedom''and constant innovation that it traditionally implies, and the established conventions of improvisation as a genre.
Mattin considers improvisation not only as an interaction between musicians and instruments, but as a situation involving all the elements that constitute a concert, including the audience and the social and architectural space. He tries to expose the stereotypical relation between active performer and passive audience, producing a sense of strangeness and alienation that disturbs this relationship.
Mattin has published more than 60 records on different labels all over the world, alone and in collaboration. He also runs the label w.m.o/r which focuses on experimental works with a conceptual and minimalist approach. He also runs Free Software Series, a label dedicated to promote works that are realized using free software and the chaotic netlabel Desetxea, which has more than 150 references.
He also writes about improvisation, noise, culture in more general terms and intellectual property. His texts have been published in books and magazines such as: Work the Room (b-books, Berlin), Mute magazine (London), Soliloquio (Getxo), Gara (Bilbao), Arsenal (Londres), 3t (Bergen), The Wire (London) y MEM codex (Bilbao). Mattin has edited the book ''Bilbao Acabado'' dealing with role of culture in the regeneration process of Bilbao.
Mattin and Anthony Iles have edited the book titeld Noise & Capitalism that explores the relationship of experimental music with the economic system that we are living in. Noise & Capitalism is published by Arteleku-Audiolab (Donostia/San Sebastian). A collection of Mattin's writing will be published by Taumaturgia (A Coruna).
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