Bit Meddler
Encyclopedia
Bit_Meddler is the alias of experimental musician
Experimental music
Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-20th century, applied particularly in North America to music composed in such a way that its outcome is unforeseeable. Its most famous and influential exponent was John Cage...

 Matt Anderson. His musical compositions incorporate glitch
Glitch (music)
Glitch is a term used to describe a genre of electronic music that emerged in the mid to late 1990s. The glitch aesthetic is characterized by a deliberate use of glitch based sonic artifacts that would normally be viewed as unwanted disturbances reducing the overall sound quality and are thus...

 and mashup
Mashup (music)
A mashup or bootleg is a song or composition created by blending two or more pre-recorded songs, usually by overlaying the vocal track of one song seamlessly over the instrumental track of another...

 styles.

He worked for the design agency Soft Gold U.S.A. and performed at Pukkelpop
Pukkelpop
Pukkelpop is an annual music festival which takes place near the city of Hasselt, Belgium in mid-to-late August. It is held within a large enclosure of fields and woodland—between a dual carriageway called Kempische Steenweg—in the village of Kiewit, approximately 7 km north of Hasselt...

 2001 in Belgium.

A music video of his track "Cut" by Till Heim earned an honorable mention at the 2005 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, founded in 1954, is one of the oldest short film festivals in the world and one of the major international platforms for the short form...

.

Singles

  • Frustum / Dermetfak (7") Planet Mu
    Planet Mu
    Planet Mu is an electronic music record label run by Mike Paradinas . It was based in Worcester until March 2007, then moved to London and has recently relocated to Broadstairs, Kent...

      2001
  • Shitmix2000 (12") Planet Mu
    Planet Mu
    Planet Mu is an electronic music record label run by Mike Paradinas . It was based in Worcester until March 2007, then moved to London and has recently relocated to Broadstairs, Kent...

    2002

Remixes

  • Crunch 2 (CD) Bit_Meddler Mix (Toe Tac Tic) Colony Productions 2002
  • Crunch 2 (12") Toe Tac Tic (Bit_Meddler Mix) Colony Productions 2003

External links

  • Bit_Meddler's page on Planet Mu Records: http://www.planet-mu.com/artists/Bit_Meddler
  • Discogs: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Bit_Meddler
The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK