Word: schmidts
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...Warren Schmidt moves ponderously. This is not because Jack Nicholson, who plays him to perfection, is particularly weighty or out of shape for a 66-year-old man. What slows him is the rhythms of his region and his culture; he is a Midwesterner of the Wasp persuasion, which means he is solid, stolid and silent, except when exchanging arm's-length pleasantries with his friends. Like so many men of his class and place, he has bent himself to a job (as an insurance company actuary) that is at once dull and intricate and to a city (Omaha...
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...
...Matmos who stole the show with their dynamic and visually arresting performance, which often felt like a sample orchestra of two. With Daniel micromanaging the elaborate groove architectures and Schmidt “playing” various objects including bells, whistles, a creaky box and a set of plastic balls that he ran through his mouth, the boredom that often accompanies live electronic shows was nowhere to be found. The pair, who are well known for using sounds as diverse as inflating balloons, liposuction surgery and amplified crayfish nerve tissue as musical elements, used the projector screen to lift their...
...this year’s Peter Ivers Visiting Artists, Daniel and Schmidt continued the week with their insights on the nature of electronic music in a series of low-key workshops and discussions. “I was excited to have a chance to stretch out in time something that I’m used to doing in thirty minutes,” Daniel told FM, referring to the presentations they often give at art colleges...
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...