Quilt for Yarn/Wire and Instrumental Objects, a Three-Episode Podcast Series About the Creative Practice of Matmos

Supko, John

Frederickson, Brooks J

2024-03-07T18:39:38Z

2024-03-07T18:39:38Z

2023

Music

Quilt is an album made from sounds sourced from my mother's quilting practice and from recording sessions held with the piano and percussion quartet Yarn/Wire. For Quilt, my mother and I designed a quilt based on the Quartered Stripes Quilt pattern. The sounds of my mother ironing and cutting the fabric then piecing the fabric into the quilt were sampled and processed. The recording sessions with Yarn/Wire included them recording musical passages I had written them, as well as structured group improvisations, and free-form experimentations. Quilt joins the two sources into one sonic world.

Instrumental Objects is a three-episode podcast series about the creative practice of Baltimore-based avant-electronic duo Matmos. The podcast uses the multiple definitions of the word "object" as lenses to examine Matmos' approach to music making. Starting with objects reimagined as instruments, then move to Pierre Schaeffer's idea of sonic objects, then end with the contemporary ideas of Object-Oriented Ontology. Presented as a podcast, my research is able present deconstructions of Matmos' works, interviews I conducted with them, and fly-on-the-wall excerpts of them creating material for the album The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form.

https://hdl.handle.net/10161/30329

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Musical composition

Composing

Matmos

Quilt

Quilt for Yarn/Wire and Instrumental Objects, a Three-Episode Podcast Series About the Creative Practice of Matmos

Dissertation