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Matt Davignon CD’s
Update 9/4/06: Most of these CDs can now be ordered through Edgetone/UIRC
Matt Davignon - Living Things ($13)
Matt's third disc for drum machine focuses on organic sounds. Released in January 2010.
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Ordering from Edgetone Records
Matt Davignon - SoftWetFish ($13)
SoftWetFish is Matt's second CD to use drum machine as the only sound source (after 2005's "Bwoo"). Not at all like the rhythms and beats one would expect, the sounds are very abstract, characterized by organic tapestries, drones, frantic passages and lovely flaws.
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Ordering from Edgetone Records
Download the album at Emusic.com (Emusic subscription required)
Organelles (2.84 mb)
Lying in Grass, Gazing Upwards at 11:30 PM (7.2 mb)
Matt Davignon - “Bwoo”: ($13)
Matt’s first cd of music for drum machine. None of the tracks on “bwoo” contain the traditional use of beats. Instead, the instrument is processed through several different sound-altering devices and samplers in real-time, creating gurgles, hums, chirps and surreal, otherworldly music.
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Bwoo.mp3
Matt Davignon – “Music at ½ Speed” ($12)
For fans of slow-motion music. Matt gathered several of his old 4-track tapes from 1994 to 1997 and mixed new versions of several tracks at half speed and often backwards. Listeners are not expected to have heard the originals – they’ve never been released, but they included bizarre pop songs and 4/4 electronic experimentation influenced by industrial music. This collection represents some of the most unusual 4/4 music ever heard, or an extreme close-up view of the building blocks of sound. Original instruments include drum machine, sampler, guitar, bass guitar, tape, keyboards, television, violin, harmonica, toys and many effects units.
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Half Speed – Track 05.mp3
Muck – “Roc” ($10) Despite claims otherwise, Muck is Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Matt Davignon & Marjorie Sturm. The “Roc” cd includes textural, slow motion, surrealistic rock music made from samples, acoustic instruments and assorted detritus.
“The strangest, most disconcerting take on any kind of so-called post-rock I have heard to this day.”
- Francois Coutre (All Music Guide)
Reviews and Ordering info at Pax Recordings
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Matt Davignon – “Charcoal” EP
Recorded in 1999 as a companion EP to the 1998 cd "5 Spots". All the sounds come directly from a "5 Spots" cd, but in most cases they are completely new songs rather than remixes. This was the last recording that Matt made to 4-track cassette. It was originally released in 2004
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9, 11, 8, 1
Matt Davignon – “Yellow” EP
Recorded and released in 2004, "Yellow" begins exploring sound ideas that will later turn up in "Bwoo" and "SoftWetFish". Instead of a drum machine, the sound source is a 100 voice keyboard, run through a large variety of 'tablecore' effects pedals. a love letter to the lo-fi properties of recording on tape - especially the decay of very old, improperly cared-for recordings.
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Urine
Matt Davignon – “Live Media Improvisation 11/7/00” & “Live Media Improvisation 7/6/03” ($8) Most of the time Matt performs live, he uses a turntable and a CD player with a pair of looping devices. These discs are both live sets of this setup recorded at home. Both are recorded in real-time, with no edits or overdubs. Track markers are provided so listeners don’t have to start from the beginning if interrupted. 11/7/00 is almost 60 minutes long. 7/6/03 is 36 minutes.
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Media 7-6-2003 - excerpt 1.mp3
Media 7-6-2003 - excerpt 2.mp3
& - “&”: ($10) An entirely acoustic collaboration between Matt Davignon and Rafter Roberts. The main instruments used were prepared out-of-tune guitars. An entire list of instruments would fill an entire page. Listeners have compared this disc to the music of Harry Partch, Renaldo & The Loaf, and Bradford Reed. These days, Rafter lives in San Diego, where he’s a central figure of the local independent music scene.
Ampersand – scour me softly.mp3
Ampersand – the slime that William.mp3
Ampersand – Oklahoma.mp3
Matt Davignon – “5 Spots” ($10) Released in 1998, this was originally supposed to be a disc of music only for bass guitar, manipulated with loops and effects. The disc contains minimal experiments, fairly simple musical structures and improvisations with a heavy focus on presenting sounds in new contexts. As the CD progressed, other instruments found their way in, including acoustic guitar, CD player, sampler, sk-1 and voice.
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A Small Explosion in Slow Motion.mp3
Millions of years ago.mp3
Compilation Projects organized by Matt
Locations Volume 1: ($10) Eleven musicians collect sounds of their cities and surroundings in specific areas all over the world, then create music compositions from the recordings. Volume 1 includes tracks by Astroblue, Michael Peters, Luca Formentini, Anders Östberg, Sawako Kato, Travis Weller, Dennis Leas, Petr Dolak, Matt Davignon (as Tape Recorder), Andy Soto and Mank. Locations include Seattle; Biesfeld, Germany; Garda Lake, Italy; Eskilstuna, Sweden; Tokyo, Japan; Austin, Texas; Lafayette, Indiana; Prague; San Francisco; Mexico City and Bangor, South Wales.
CD Available in mp3 format
(Click on the tape image, then “Projects”.)
Locations Volume 2: ($10) Eleven musicians collect sounds of their cities and surroundings in specific areas all over the world, then create music compositions from the recordings. Volume 2 includes tracks by Marcelo Radulovich, David Cooper Orton, Omnid, Marcos Fernandes, Antipriest, Paul Paulun, Archive, The Quiet American, Gydja, Jaime Drouin and Rob Switzer. Locations include Santiago, Chile; London; Bayonne, New Jersey; Marrakech, Morocco; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Seoul; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Lhasa, Tibet; Wellington, New Zealand; Victoria, Canada and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
CD Available in mp3 format
(Click on the tape image, then “Projects”.)
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Source/Product: (Free Download) An ambitious 2-CD project that never officially made it to CD. Musicians from around the USA and elsewhere each submitted 5 minutes of “source material” for the first disc. For the second disc, they were limited to using only samples from the first disc. Musicians included Big City Orchestra, Bran Flakes, Rafter, Aliensporebomb, Ryan Novak, Andy Soto, Magicicada, Tim Nelson, Mank, Echovirus, Matt Davignon, Chris Cory, Brad Knox and Nate Groth.
CD Available in mp3 format
(Click on the tape image, then “Projects”.)
CT Found Sound: (Free Download) My first online CD compilation, done in 1999. Each musician was only allowed to use pre-existing recordings to create new music.
CD Available in mp3 format
(Click on the tape image, then “Projects”.)
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