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previous artist: shock headed peters		there are 3 titles featuring matt shoemaker in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: shogun kunitoki

$9.43

new to stock as of
february 25th, 2009

threads:
field-recordings
electro-acoustic-composition
musique-concrète

ferns (france) #rhizome 06 cd

matt shoemaker “mutable depths” three inch compact disc

mutable depths (20:01)

february 2008 release ; impeccable rumbling field-events & circuit-bent squawk from matt shoemaker ...

ferns press release...

limited to 500 copies.
packaged in mini, gatefold paper sleeve.

ferns_rhizome_06

$12.61

back in stock as of
september 16th, 2011

first in stock on
june 17th, 2009

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
field-recordings
jewelled-antler
musique-concrète
minimalism-drones
analogue-synth

the helen scarsdale agency (usa) #hms 015 cd
helen scarsdale agency (usa) #hms 015 cd

matt shoemaker “erosion of the analogous eye” compact disc

erosion a (17:17)
erosion b (23:46)
the analogous eye (25:28)

june 2009 release ; a trio of deep, void-oriented pieces, constructed largely of analogue synth timbres ... immersive work, some of the best i’ve heard of shoemaker’s ...

the helen scarsdale agency press release...

hms015

matt shoemaker
erosion of the analogous eye
cd

release date: june 2009

the studio of matt shoemaker is alive with electricity. impossibly complex wirings channel signal in and out of analog synth modules, an array of curious aluminums boxes with unmarked knobs, slinkies strung from ceiling to floor creating a set of giant spring reverb units, accelerometers attached to consumer electronic errata, and even a few conventional tools like guitar stomp boxes and a bruised computer. for all of the convoluted engineering that goes into shoemaker's equipment, the resulting mesmerism in sound appears effortless and strangely organic.

shoemaker has enjoyed a semi-obscure career through his polymath activities that bridge such electronic experiments with a choice library of globe-trotted field recordings and a broad knowledge of avant-garde cinema. for erosion of the analogous eye, shoemaker waves his hands about his laboratory to construct an ever-evolving album for mutant dronemuzik. his electrical seas of synthetic bristling undulate with placid regularity, only to find shoemaker contorting these brain-melting psychedelics into cancerous, atonal bellows. out of his allotropic shifts, one can find swells of irradiated static transform into the graceful chime of temple bells; and electrical phase patterns slip into deep forest murmurings dotted with narcoleptic birds calls. on one hand, this album is prescient of the revival for progressive electronics currently underway in the flood of us post-noise projects; it's easy to triangulate this between emeralds and heldon. but on the other hand, erosion of the analogous eye is the continuation of where shoemaker had begun with his early work on trente oiseaux with its grotesques exaggerations of field recording into this beguiling piece of art.

the artwork on erosion of the analogous eye features unique hand-dyed abstractions mounted onto letterpressed paper. this has warranted a very small pressing of 300 copies.

$12.61

back in stock as of
september 16th, 2011

first in stock on
june 26th, 2007

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation
minimalism-drones

the helen scarsdale agency (usa) #hms 010 cd
helen scarsdale agency (usa) #hms 010 cd

matt shoemaker “spots in the sun” compact disc

... (1) (6:04)
... (2) (17:57)
... (3) (7:00)
... (4) (16:46)

the helen scarsdale agency press release...

hms010

matt shoemaker
spots in the sun cd

matt shoemaker pulled his chin away from his hand after several ponderous moments, positing that the title to this electrically charged opus of encrypted drone holds at least two entry points. the most obvious reference for spots in the sun would be the astrophysical study of sunspots with all of the allusions to earthly disturbances triggered by events millions of miles away. yet, on the other hand, shoemaker also proposed an earthbound reference to regions of the world that only exist – perhaps literally, perhaps psycho-geographically – under the intense glare of sunlight. he then shrugged his shoulders, hoping for an ideal situation in which his audience will confront his work as a vacuum and allow personal references to be drawn from within.

in simplest terms, spots in the sun is a grotesque, sonic landscape with details exaggerated out of proportion and narratives folded upon themselves in a magnificent abstraction of electro-acoustics, rarified field recordings, and particulate matter plucked from ether. shoemaker works in monochrome, shaping his gray tonalities into rhizomes of shadow which occasionally erupt in brilliance of hyper-realized clarity. while the familiar sounds of encircling birds, turbulent weather, and temple bells litter shoemaker's recordings, the sonic topography describes a vulgar and hostile landscape where fits of delirium and circadian arrhythmia are common human responses. shoemaker achieves these complex metaphors through labyrinthine drones spiralling through irradiated fog and glassine vibrations, punctured by the scars of a landscape in perpetual revolt. in many ways, shoemaker's spots in the sun could be mistaken for bernard parmegiani at his most focused or even john duncan at his most gracefully brutal.

shoemaker has two previous recordings for bernhard günter's seminal trente oiseaux label of lowercase sound, and he currently resides in seattle.

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shock headed peters

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next artist:
shogun kunitoki