Matt Marble

M a t t M a r b l e (b.1979 Jackson, MS) is a composer/performer and writer/researcher living in Princeton, New Jersey. He has composed works for film, theatre, dance, c.d., stereo diffusion, multimedia performance, and instrumental ensembles. As a performer (found objects, home-made instruments, samples, extended sythesizer), Matt has played with diverse improvisers on the West Coast and has collaborated frequently with Seth Nehil. His composed works are rooted in a practice of scored improvisation and draw directly and indirectly from extra-musical fields such as botany, crystallography, and anthropology. Scores and drawings have been presented at the Jersey City Museum & the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona (MACBA). Writings and an anthology of scores, Tools of Mind, have been published by FO A RM Magazine.Matt studied music composition at CalArts (w/Michael Pisaro) and music theory at Portland State University (blobbyblobblobby) and the University of Paris, VIII, St. Denis-Vincennes (w/Eugenia Duta). He received his B.A. in Speech & Hearing Science from Portland State University and worked as a full time Research Assistant for the National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research (NCRAR) at the VA hospital in Portland, OR. He is currently a graduate student in the Composition department at Princeton University.
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::::::::::: :: : : : : : : : : :T O O L S O F M I N D Edited by Matt Marble, published by FO A RM Magazine (see below)The works gathered in this book reflect particularly the resource of their own path of origin - the mind. Each contribution offers a model, design, plan, or developmental process [...] Conjoining performance scores by international artists with diagrams from diverse fields of thought, this book takes form as mosaic imagery : a collectivized tool of intuition. (From the introduction by Matt Marble)Featured Artists: David Abel, Peter Ablinger, Jonas Baes, Seth Cluett, Christian Keston, Pauline Oliveros, Adam Overton, Mark Owens, Michael Pisaro, REBAR Collective, Tara Rodgers, Phillip Schultze, Dan Senn, Craig Sheperd, Scott Smallwood, Yasunao Tone, Giancarlo Toniutti, Heather Watkins.The book can be purchased here, via PayPal:http://foarm.artdocuments.org/issues.htmI was interviewed about the book for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona (MACBA) by Barbara Held for the premier of their new online radio series (Lines of Sight/Linies de Visio):http://rwm.macba.es/ca/curatorial:::::::::::: :: : : : : : : :
FO A RM MAGAZINE
With Seth Nehil, Bethany Wright, and Joseph Bradshaw, I co-edit FO A RM Magazine, a multimedia forum for arts and culture, emphasizing experimental sound practices and auditory culture. Our latest issue, Autonomy (5), features writings and/or audio by Michael Schumacher, Achim Wollscheid, Adam Overton, Arsenije Jovanovich, Barbara Held, Giancarlo Toniutti, et al. This issue also offers the first critical expose, in English, on Philippino composer/pianist/ethnomusicologist Jose Maceda: featuring writings/sound by Jonas Baes, Ramon Pagayon Santos, Subhash Kak, and Mat Marble --
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