Mothwire (previously Butterfly Wire - long story)is my (Mat Simpson in case you didn't know) new ambient and electro project. I just fell in love with ambient, groovy relaxing music and house (hearing La Femme d'Argent by Air from their album Moon Safari inspired me to write Unattached part 1) and started recording some relaxing,groovy and chilled out music. This is also a break from guitar based music for me; which I found I was awful at writing! So far, 7 songs have been recorded for the first album which is at the moment called Liquid. Please email
[email protected] if you wish to get in touch and please visit www.soundclick.com/mothwire to listen to 6 out of the 7 songs recorded so far.
By the way thanks to www.myspace.com/butterflywire for the sly promotion.
Equipment
Recording: Ableton Live 6, Line 6 Toneport and Gearbox (for getting my guitar into the pc with a pre-amp). Many many VST synths. Favourites at the moment are Syntar - the sitar plugin; MiniErhu - the erhu plugin (it is the weird sounding instrument at the beginning of Unattached part 2 and most of the way through part 1) and String thing (the cool melody at the end of Unattached part 1).
Instruments: Ibanez RG350EX, Fender Squier Strat (was out of action but now back in because I removed the frets), Some kind of Vintage 12 string electo acoustic, and a near-death Vintage V8BRQ which i dont use at the moment. A Yamaha keyboard (i think its a DJX), and what I think is a "phin" (see my pictures)
Effects: Boss MD-2 Distortion, Ibanez Weeping Demon Wah, Alesis Volume/Expression pedal, Alesis Guitar FX. Amp is Marshall MG15CD lol it's poor but I dont use it that much..
Music: My music is very chilled out relaxing music mostly, but my guitar side creeps in occasionally (check out Chinese Whispers)
Anyway thanks for taking the time to check out this profile.
Much love
Mat
www.obcom.co.uk Please check out my friend Peter's amazing animation work. You may have spotted him on Newgrounds recently, he's awesome. When my recording software is working again I'll be recording some music for a short looping animation that you can find on his website. And hopefully you'll be seeing some more collaborations in the future!
Oh and by the way "Moth Wire", "Mothwire" and the Mothwire logo are copyright Mat Simpson May 2007
