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01. MATT CARLSON - Sitting Down To Boolean Tea
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02. MATT CARLSON - In Order To Find the Real Artichoke, We Divested It Of Its Leaves
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03. MATT CARLSON - The Game
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04. MATT CARLSON - A Discrete Infinity
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05. MATT CARLSON - An Enhanced Interrogation Of Authenticity
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06. MATT CARLSON - The Non-Entity
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07. MATT CARLSON - How S Can Be Indirectly Self Defeating
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08. MATT CARLSON - The View From Nowhere
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09. MATT CARLSON - Why I Left The Center
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ARTIST
CARLSON, MATT
TITLE
The View From Nowhere
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
SHELTER PRESS
CATALOG #
SHELTER 072LP
SHELTER 072LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
8/5/2016
The View From Nowhere
is a record of experimental electronic music that explores possible relationships between voice and modular synthesis. Composed and recorded by
Matt Carlson
at Worksound in Portland Oregon, the record develops and expands ideas discernible in his early solo works or as one-half of the duo
Golden Retriever
. Built with a clear unity of approach centered on the voice and text as elements in synthesis, the record flattens the distance between the vocal and the musical. The voice sounds synthesized, and the synthesized sounds seem to be speaking to you.
The View From Nowhere
takes Carlson's interest in the sounds of attempted communication into the realm of the textual. Although melody and a good dose of Matt's unusual sense of humor shape the record, another key emphasis in the composition is his specific approach to rhythm and sequencing. Rhythmic patterns are used but the music is somehow never fully on or off the grid. Carlson opts to use
Nancarrow
-esque overlapping meters and tempos to keep the music out of any kind of predictable patterns of electronic music.
The View From Nowhere
is thematically centered around ideas of confusion, panic, misunderstanding, and "bad faith" communication. It's interested in the process of how something moves from being an "abstract" sound into becoming a signifier of specific meaning, and the interstitial space in between. The felt attempt to communicate meaning lay behind the artwork as well, standing as a visual representation of the way the music approaches language. The text-based imagery strives to exist between sense and nonsense, the meaningful and the meaningless. Individual syntactical units "point" to one another but don't necessarily cohere into comprehensible statements. Relationality is implied and seems to emerge merely by placing signifiers against one another. Taking influence from text-sound composers such as
Charles Amirkhanian
, the early voice-synthesis work of
Charles Dodge
, and
Robert Ashley
's more speech-heavy work,
The View From Nowhere
might be Matt Carlson's most challenging and refined record to date. It's like being near a million tiny entities all trying to communicate with you simultaneously, or being in a crowded place hearing the rhythms and cadences of communication but not quite being able to parse it.
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