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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...
...speaking of denial, I had forgotten that men like Warren Schmidt still exist, even though they are my people. I was raised among them, though I fled their phlegmish company decades ago to join the chattering classes. Once in a while I read something that evokes them--Evan S. Connell's lovely novels about Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, Garrison Keillor's sweet-savage Lake Wobegon comedies--but an air of reminiscence touches those works. I guessed that television, the Internet, the jet planes that could whisk these characters to Europe overnight, had long since thawed their taciturnity, granted them full...
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...
...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...