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Matt Piper

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About Me

Here's a little info about a couple of the tunes on this page:

"Lantern Bowls" features samples I recorded of four stainless steel bowls from my kitchen. On "My Own Skin," I played the nylon string guitar and acoustic fretless bass guitar.

And here's a little info about me:

The instruments I play the most often are electric guitar (with or without a ridiculous array of effects pedals on the floor), nylon string acoustic guitar, steel string acoustic, acoustic fretless bass, banjo, electric bass, brass-body resonator guitar, piano, and keyboards/knobs through laptop computer. I also enjoy playing ukulele, zither, wood flutes, 12-string acoustic guitar, and any object from which I can coax a pleasing sound.
I love any chance to play improvisational music, or to play in the studio and try to add something to someone's project. I also love to score for any cool video, animation, film, or TV project.

I had a book published last year, my first as a solo author, called Using Reason's Virtual Instruments, which is all about giving the reader a solid, intuitive, gut-level understanding of synthesis techniques, specifically applicable to Reason software, but also applicable to designing sounds with any software or hardware synthesizers. I recently enjoyed an opportunity to guest lecture on this topic at the SAE Institute in Hollywood, and I think I'd like to do more guest lecturing and/or lead workshops on this in the future.


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/25/2006
Band Website: awakedream.com
Influences: The Short List: Miles Davis, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Igor Stravinsky, Herbie Hancock, John Williams's scores for Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back, various classical Indian music and other world music.
Sounds Like: non-random vibrations with apparent intention
Record Label: I'm told that would require that I make a record.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

DREAM CALIBRATION

On December 7 2007, I had the pleasure of participating in an all-night ambient improvisation session recorded at Leland Way Studios in Hollywood. The crystalized essence of that session is now availa...
Posted by Matt Piper on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 07:56:00 PST

Tints of Autism

I recently found out that a short ( Tints of Autism) is an intimate portrait of three young adults with autism, and how they and their families cope. You can see it here: http://current.com/items/8884...
Posted by Matt Piper on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:04:00 PST

Satan Is the Reason for the Season

It could be argued that if Satan had not tempted Eve, man never would have fallen into sin and therefore never would have required a savior to be born in the first place. In that case, Toys 'r' Us (fo...
Posted by Matt Piper on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:07:00 PST

My book has been published

I wrote a book this year about how to use Propellerhead's Reason music production software. It is called Using Reason's Virtual Instruments. It's my first book as a solo author. I did the best job I c...
Posted by Matt Piper on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 10:06:00 PST