Mattin
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Mattin is a Basque artist working mostly with noise and improvisation
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Mattin also has written about improvisation, free software
and against the notion of intellectual property. In 2001 Mattin formed Sakada with Eddie Prévost
and Rosy Parlane
. He has over 70 releases in different labels around the world. He runs the experimental record labels w.m.o/r and Free Software Series, and the netlabel Desetxea. Mattin publishes his music under the no-licence of Anti-copyright
.
With Anthony Iles, he has edited the book Noise & Capitalism.
Other projects include; Deflag Haemorrhage/Haien Kontra, NMM, Billy Bao, La Grieta and Josetxo Grieta
.
, Taku Unami, Emma Hedditch, Margarida Garcia, Xabier Erkizia, Karin Schneider
, Oren Ambarchi
, Dean Roberts
, Bruce Russell, Campbell Kneale, Tony Conrad
, Taku Sugimoto
, Matthew Bower
, Philip Best
, Drunkdriver, Ray Brassier
and Junko
.
Improvisation
Improvisation is the practice of acting, singing, talking and reacting, of making and creating, in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one's immediate environment and inner feelings. This can result in the invention of new thought patterns, new practices, new structures or symbols, and/or...
.
Mattin also has written about improvisation, free software
Free software
Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...
and against the notion of intellectual property. In 2001 Mattin formed Sakada with Eddie Prévost
Eddie Prévost
Edwin Prévost is an English drummer and percussionist.Prévost began as a jazz drummer before branching out into entirely improvised music. He was a co-founder of the group AMM, and remains its only constant member...
and Rosy Parlane
Rosy Parlane
Rosy Parlane is an electronic musician from New Zealand, based in London since 2000. He was in the New Zealand trio Thela, then went on a solo career, as well as co-founding the Sigma Editions record label.-Overview:...
. He has over 70 releases in different labels around the world. He runs the experimental record labels w.m.o/r and Free Software Series, and the netlabel Desetxea. Mattin publishes his music under the no-licence of Anti-copyright
Anti-copyright
Anti-copyright refers to the complete or partial opposition to prevalent copyright laws. Copyright is known as the owner's right for copies to be only made by the owner or with his/her authorization in form of a license....
.
With Anthony Iles, he has edited the book Noise & Capitalism.
Other projects include; Deflag Haemorrhage/Haien Kontra, NMM, Billy Bao, La Grieta and Josetxo Grieta
Josetxo Grieta
Josetxo Grieta is a noise rock band formed in Bilbao on 2006. The members are Josetxo Anitua from the band Cancer Moon, Iñigo Eguillor from Gringo, and Mattin from Billy Bao, Deflag Haemorrhage/Haien Kontra, Sakada, and NMM...
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Collaborations
Mattin has collaborated with other artists including; Dion WorkmanDion Workman
Dion Workman is a musician from New Zealand. Throughout the mid 1990s he was a member of the trio Thela with Rosy Parlane and Dean Roberts. After Thela dissolved in the late 1990s, Workman and Parlane moved to Melbourne, Australia, and recorded under the name Parmentier, as well as founding the...
, Taku Unami, Emma Hedditch, Margarida Garcia, Xabier Erkizia, Karin Schneider
Karin Schneider
Karin Schneider is a Brazilian artist. She was born in Rio de Janeiro.Schneider lives and works in New York since October, 1996. In 1997, Karin created together with the artist Nicolás Guagnini an experimental film company called Union Gaucha Productions...
, Oren Ambarchi
Oren Ambarchi
Oren Ambarchi is a multi-instrumentalist who in major plays electric guitar and drums, with longstanding interests in transcending conventional instrumental approaches. He was born in Sydney, Australia in 1969 to a Jewish family originally from Iraq....
, Dean Roberts
Dean Roberts
Dean Roberts is a musician from New Zealand. During the mid 1990s he was a member of the trio Thela with Rosy Parlane and Dion Workman. After Thela disbanded, Roberts recorded 3 solo albums under the name White Winged Moth, followed by a series of releases under his own name.Along with Martin...
, Bruce Russell, Campbell Kneale, Tony Conrad
Tony Conrad
Tony Conrad is an American avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician/composer, sound artist, teacher and writer...
, Taku Sugimoto
Taku Sugimoto
Taku Sugimoto is a Japanese guitarist.He initially gained attention in the late 1990s for his restrained, melodic playing, unusual in the world of free improvisation. Critic Bruce Russell describes this era of Sugimoto's music by writing: "Sugimoto is perhaps the pre-eminent stylist on the guitar .....
, Matthew Bower
Matthew Bower
Matthew Bower is a British musician, active since the early 1980s, with a vast collection of collaborative and solo work behind him.-Skullflower:...
, Philip Best
Philip Best
Philip Best is a pioneer of power electronics who formed the band Consumer Electronics in 1982 at the age of 14. He joined the group Whitehouse, led by William Bennett, in 1983...
, Drunkdriver, Ray Brassier
Ray Brassier
Ray Brassier is a member of the Philosophy faculty at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, known for his work in philosophical realism. He was formerly Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University, London, England.He is the author of Nihil...
and Junko
Junko
-Possible writings:Junko can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:*純子, "pure, child"*順子, "order, child"*淳子, "pure, child"*潤子, "enrich, child"*準子, "conform, child"*洵子, "truth, child"The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana....
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Discography
- Feb 2001 Mattin: Betzain CDr w.m.o/r 00 (UK)
- Mar 2001 Mattin: Tinnitus CDr w.m.o/r 01 (UK)
- Jun 2001 Mattin/Prevost/Parlane: Sakada CD w.m.o/r 02 (UK)
- Jul 2001 Mattin: Higu CDr w.m.o/r 03 (UK)
- Sep 2001 BI RAK (Mattin/Dennis Dubovtsev): Betzain CDr w.m.o/r 04 (UK)
- May 2002 Mattin/Rosy Parlane/Xabier Erkizia: Mendietan CD w.m.o/r 05 (UK)
- Nov 2002 Sakada: Undistilled CD Matchless Records (UK)
- Mar 2003 Mattin: Gora CDr Twothousanand (UK)
- Apr 2003 Mattin/Rosy Parlane: Agur 3” CDr Absurd Records (Greece)
- Apr 2003 Belaska: Vault CD w.m.o/r 06 (UK)
- Sept 2003 Sakada 3”CD Sound 323 (UK)
- Feb 2004 Radu MalfattiRadu MalfattiRadu Malfatti is an Austrian trombone player and composer. He was born in Innsbruck, in the province of Tyrol, on December 16, 1943. He has been described as "among the leaders in redefining the avant-garde as truly on-the-edge art." His work "since the early nineties.....
/Mattin: WHITENOISE CD w.m.o/r 07 (EH) - Apr 2004 Taku Sugimoto, Yasuo Totsuka & Mattin: Training Thoughts CD w.m.o/r 09 (EH)
- May 2004 Margarida Garcia & Mattin: For Permitted Consumption CDr L´imnomable (Slovenia)
- May 2004 MATTINBARNES: Live at Issue, NYC. CDr Quakebasket (USA)
- May 2004 Radu Malfatti, Klaus Filip, Mattin, Dean Roberts: Building Excess CD Grob Records (Germany)
- May 2004 Sakada: Never Give Up in the Margins of Logic 3"CD Antiopic (USA)
- Aug 2004 Sakada: Bilbao Resiste, Resiste Bilbao CDr Fargone Records (USA)
- Aug 2004 Junko & Mattin: Pinknoise CD w.m.o/r 13 (EH)
- Sept 2004 Mattin: Basque Rd CDr Document (Australia)
- Oct 2004 Mattin / Dion Workman: Via Vespucci CD Antifrost (Barcelona/Athens)
- Oct 2004 Mattin & Taku Unami: shyrio no computer CD w.m.o/r/hibari (EH/Japan)
- v 2004 Sakada: Askatuta CDr The Rizhome Label (Australia)
- Jul 2005 Billy Bao: Bilbo's Incinerator 7 ¨ w.m.o/r (EH)
- Jul 2005 NMM-No More Music at the service of capital (Lucio Capece & Mattin) CDr Why Not LTD (Malaysia) Rereleased by NO SESO (Argentina) in Aug 2006
- Sept 2005 Deflag Haemorrhage / Haien Kontra: Luxury CDr w.m.o/r (UK)
- Sept 2005 Mattin: Songbook CDr hibari (Japan)
- Nov 2005 Billy Bao: R'nR Granulator CD w.m.o/r (UK)
- Dec 2005 Dion Workman / Mattin: S3 CD Formed Records (USA)
- Jan 2006 Francis/Guerra/Stern/Mattin 7" cmr (New Zealand)
- Feb 2006 Billy Bao: Auxilio! CDr Herbal Live Series (Austria)
- Feb 2006 Mattin Songbook vol.2 CDr Ausaider Magazine (Ukrania)
- Feb 2006 La Grieta Hermana Hostia CDr w.m.o/r (UK)
- March 2006 Mattin & Cremaster Barcelona CDr Audiobot (Belgium)
- May 2006 Guionnet/Denzler/Unami/Mattin CDr Fargone Records (USA)
- May 2006 Mattin Songbook vol.3 Black Petal CDr (Japan)
- May 2006 Radu Malfatti / Mattin Going Fragile CD Formed Records (USA)
- June 2006 Josetxo Grieta Reminder of a Precious Life CDr Audiobot (Belgium)
- June 2006 Kneale/Mattin con-v CDr (Spain)
- Aug 2006 Axel Doerner & Mattin Berlin CD Absurd Records/1000+1 Tilt (Greece)
- Sept 2006 Lene Grenager, Harald Fetveit, Lasse Marhaug, Lucio Capece & Mattin "cdr" CDr The Seedy R! (New Zealand)
- Sept 2006 MATTINBARNES Achbal al Atlas CD Little Enjoyer (NYC)
- Oct 2006 Mattin Songbook vol. 4 CD Azul Discográfica (NYC)
- Oct 2006 Tony Conrad, Tim Barnes & Mattin CD Celebrate PSI Phenomenon (New Zealand)
- Nov 2006 NMM “UNIVERSAL PROSTITUTION” CD iDEAL, absurd, 8mm (Sweden, Italy, Greece)
- Nov 2006 MATTIN 'PROLETARIAN OF NOISE' CD hibari (Japan)
- Dec 2006 Josetxo Grieta Euskal Semea CD w.m.o/r (Berlin)
- May 2007 Matthew Bower & Mattin A New Form of Beauty (1975) CD Bottrop-Boy (Berlin)
- Jul 2007 Ryu Hankil, Jin Sangtae, Taku Unami, Mattin: 5 modules III CDr manual modules (Seul)
- Oct 2007 Claudio Rocchetti/Mattin Long Live Anti-Copyright, Death to Intellectual Property CDr Troglosound (Italy)
- Oct 2007 Mattin split with Analoge Suicide & GEN 26 [&] 3" CDr (Ljublijana)
- Oct 2007 Mattin/Taku Unami Attention CD h.m.o/r (Tokyo/Berlin)
- Nov 2007 Billy Bao Fuck Separation EP S-S Records (Sacramento)
- Dec 2007 Mattin Broken Subject CDr Free Software Series (Berlin)
- Feb 2008 Billy Bao Dialectics of Shit LP Parts Unknown (NYC)
- Feb 2008 Billy Bao Accumulation 7" Xerox Music (London)
- March 2008 Josetxo Grieta Sonrisas vendo, Donde nos llevan CDr Taumaturgia (A Coruna)
- June 2008 Junko & Mattin LP Tochnit Aleph (Berlin)
- June 2008 Josetxo Grieta The Art of Distraction LP Ozono Kids (Barcelona)
- August 2008 Junko, Michel Henritzi & Mattin JE T' AIME! CDr Absurd (Athens)
- January 2009 Josetxo Grieta DISTANCIA #2387 CDr Hamaika (Euskal Herria)
- January 2009 Josetxo Grieta "Hitzak, Eginak, Animaliak, Pertsonak DVD Discos Crudos (Bilbo)
- May 2009 Billy Bao Sacrilege CD Afterburn (Melbourne)
- June 2009 DEFLAG HAEMORRHAGE/HAIEN KONTRA re-issue of Luxury CD Tochnit Aleph (Berlin)
- June 2009 DEFLAG HAEMORRHAGE/HAIEN KONTRA Humiliated CD Tochnit Aleph (Berlin)
- June 2009 CONSUMER ELECTRONICS Crowd Pleaser LP Hand to Mouth (Berlin)
- July 2009 Billy Bao MAY 08 LP Parts Unknown (NYC)
- July 2009 Billy Bao I am going to kill all the rich man cassette drone errant (USA)
- August 2009 Alan Courtis, Bruce Russell, Eddie Prevost & Mattin The Sakada Sessions LP Azul Discografica (NYC)
- August 2009 DRUNKDRIVER/MATTIN List of Profound Insecurities 12 Badmaster (Philadelphia)
- October 2009 MATTIN & MALATESTA cassette Ozono Kids (Barcelona)
- February 2010 MATTIN & TAKU UNAMI Distributing Vulnerability to the Affective Classes CDr Rumpsti Pumsti (Berlin)
- March 2010 Billy Bao Urban Disease LP PAN (Berlin)
- April 2010 La Grieta decisión CDr Black Petal (Tokyo)
- May 2010 Ray Brassier, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Seijiro Murayama, Mattin Idioms and Idiots CD w.m.o/r (Visby)
- December 2010 Mattin Object of Thought LP Presto!? (Milan)