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Matt Davignon

Experimental drum machine/turntable/objects

About Me

Matt Davignon is an experimental/ambient musician living in Oakland, California. Originally born in Agawam, Massachusetts, Matt Davignon has been developing his own unique form of improvisation (for better or worse) since 1994. He spent his formative music years locked in a garage in Sonoma County, California, tinkering with tools such as lo-fi samplers, cassette tapes, contact microphones, household objects, extensive chains of guitar effects, prepared instruments, and field recordings. These explorations continued as he moved to San Francisco in 1997, then Oakland in 2001. In 2003, he discovered he could make more sounds than he could ever imagine by processing the sounds of a drum machine in real-time with various devices. This has been the focus of his work since then. Characteristics of his music include a focus on textures, arrhythmic patterns and musical imperfections, with a focus on evoking biological systems.
On some occasions he can still be seen playing turntable, cassette tape recorders, live samples of other musicians or 'the bucket of crap' - an assortment of household objects and toy instruments. Matt has organized events such as the San Francisco Found Objects Festival and Sound/Shift Oakland.
Matt's cd's can be found here: http://www.edgetonerecords.com/catalog/uirc/cdindex_d.html
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Member Since: 11/14/2004
Band Website: ribosomemusic.com
Influences: Naturally-occuring sounds, biological processes, mistakes, fog, organisms
Sounds Like: a whole lot of fun

Record Label: Edgetone Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Wrote a song!

I came home today and wrote a song from scratch in about an hour. Well, not the music, but the lyrics. Before today all I had was a few spare sentences, a single chorus, and 2 ideas for thin...
Posted by Matt Davignon on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:11:00 PST

CD project journal - June 20

Currently 4 days into my second "recording vacation". Progress is slow, but it's definitely being made. I'm still having driver issues, where I have to reinstall the driver every 20-50 minutes, when ...
Posted by Matt Davignon on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:20:00 PST

CD Project journal part 1: May 15 & June 8

I'm keeping a journal of the process of me trying to record a "pop" cd. (In which the songs have words and more than 1 instrument.) Here are the first 2 entries: May 15, 2008: I guess you could say to...
Posted by Matt Davignon on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:57:00 PST

moved!

Well, not quite yet. I still have a few small stands that need to make it to the new place, and many many boxes to unpack. It's now midnight on the third day of moving. I've been marking it in small v...
Posted by Matt Davignon on Sun, 04 May 2008 12:13:00 PST

2 months later

So, it's 2 months into my live show 'hiatus'....and I still have yet to get the chance to record any music. I've been away on business trips half the time. I'm still playing with the Crank Ensemble, s...
Posted by Matt Davignon on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:07:00 PST

Last show for a while

That's my story anyway... I'm going to try to take a break from performing for a few months after this show, so I can buckle down on recording. Anyway, the show is.... Saturday, Mar 8 2008 8:00 PM 15...
Posted by Matt Davignon on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 05:44:00 PST

Im not your ad space

Ok, something that irks me on myspace are those people who befriend me, then use the comments section of my page to advertise for their new cd's or upcoming shows.So, any such "comments" are going to ...
Posted by Matt Davignon on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:24:00 PST

My favorite albums of 2007

(in no particular order) Efterklang "Parades": This was one of a few groups that I discovered simply because it was on Emusic and I had a few downloads left for the month. Efterklang is a Danish grou...
Posted by Matt Davignon on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:10:00 PST

upcoming vacation

The beginning of the year is going to bring some time off - hopefully to finally start recording tracks of new cd. I now have (I believe) all the equipment I need to start....computer, recording inter...
Posted by Matt Davignon on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:44:00 PST

old house

So I did it - I visited the house where I grew up, while I was in Massachusetts. I haven't been there since I was 17. It's a lot smaller than I remember, but I'm happy to say all the old floors and wa...
Posted by Matt Davignon on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:45:00 PST