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...Daniel and Schmidt said they felt most positive about the guidance they gave to Harvard students who are interested in making electronic music. In the second workshop, the duo (along with Whitman) demonstrated several software packages and presented different approaches for composing with them. To conclude, they presented the class with a new piece they had composed using sounds sampled directly from the students. “If we see these on Ebay, you’re dead,” Daniel joked. It was a satisfying conclusion to the duo’s weeklong residency...
...musique concrete, the avant-garde movement that used spliced tape loops to restructure found sounds into full-length compositions. “I wanted some way to respond to the class with sound, but you can only go so far without it becoming a bit gimmicky,” Daniel said. The talk was bolstered by listening to the duo’s favorite recordings, which ranged from former Cabaret Voltaire member Chris Watson’s work as a BBC nature recording engineer to composer Pierre Henry’s “Variations for a Door...
...Though Daniel and Schmidt were ambivalent about their newfound role as teachers (“We’re not equipped nor educated in teaching people to be sound artists in general,” Schmidt said), the listening sessions offered a rare glimpse into the artists that helped shape the Matmos sound, which has reached unsuspecting ears worldwide in the form of production work on Bjork’s album Vespertine...
...think I was perhaps intimidated by Harvard and gave our seminar an academic armor-clad shape,” said Daniel. The two preferred the casual give-and-take atmosphere of their informal presentations, given at Adams and Quincy Houses and in Lecturer Heather Love’s Literature 114: “Friendship” seminar. At Adams House, conversation topics ranged from the duo’s experiences gaining a foothold in the music world and working in the porn industry as soundtrack composers to their thoughts on the interaction between academic discourse and experimental...
...seeking to amplify the object I’m participating in the Western philosophical tradition of searching for the ding an sich,’ but I don’t think it would make the beats any funkier or the song any better,” Daniel later reiterated...