Mattin is an artist from Bilbao working mostly with
noise
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and
improvisation
Improvisation is the activity of making or doing something not planned beforehand, using whatever can be found. Improvisation in the performing arts is a very spontaneous performance without specific or scripted preparation. The skills of impr ...
.
Mattin also has written about improvisation,
free software
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, and against the notion of
intellectual property
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. In 2001 Mattin formed ''Sakada'' with
Eddie Prévost
Edwin John Prévost (born 22 June 1942) is an English percussionist who founded the free improvisation group, AMM.
Early years
Of Huguenot heritage, Prévost's silk weaving ancestors moved to Spitalfields in the late 17th century. He was bor ...
and
Rosy Parlane
Rosy Parlane, also known as Paul Douglas, is an electronic musician from New Zealand who currently lives in Auckland, New Zealand. He was in the New Zealand trio Thela, then went on a solo career, as well as co-founding the Sigma Editions recor ...
. He has over 70 releases in different labels around the world. He runs the
experimental
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record labels
w.m.o/r and
Free Software Series, and the netlabel
Desetxea. Mattin publishes his music under the no-licence of
Anti-copyright
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. With Anthony Iles, he has edited the book ''
Noise & Capitalism''. And on May 31st, 2022 he had released a new book titled, ''
Social Dissonance''.
Other projects include;
Deflag Haemorrhage/Haien Kontra,
NMM,
Billy Bao,
La Grieta and
Josetxo Grieta.
Collaborations
Mattin has collaborated with other artists including;
Dion Workman
Dion Workman is a musician from New Zealand. Throughout the mid-1990s he was a member of the trio Thela with Rosy Parlane and Dean Roberts. After Thela dissolved in the late 1990s, Workman and Parlane moved to Melbourne, Australia, and recorded ...
,
Taku Unami,
Emma Hedditch,
Margarida Garcia,
Xabier Erkizia,
Karin Schneider,
Oren Ambarchi
Oren Ambarchi (born 1969) is an Australian musician. He is a multi-instrumentalist who plays mainly electric guitar and percussion.
Biography
Oren Ambarchi was born in Sydney to an Iraqi Jewish family. Ambarchi has been performing live since ...
,
Dean Roberts,
Bruce Russell,
Campbell Kneale
Birchville Cat Motel is a one-man experimental music project formed by Campbell Kneale from Wellington, New Zealand. Although largely unrecognised by the mainstream press and public in his home country, Kneale has toured throughout Japan, Ameri ...
,
Tony Conrad
Anthony Schmalz Conrad (March 7, 1940 – April 9, 2016) was an American video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician, composer, sound artist, teacher, and writer. Active in a variety of media since the early 1960s, he was a pioneer of both d ...
,
Taku Sugimoto
Taku Sugimoto, born December 20, 1965, in Tokyo, is a Japanese guitarist.
He initially gained attention in the late 1990s for his restrained, melodic playing, unusual in the world of free improvisation. Critic Bruce Russell describes this era o ...
,
Matthew Bower
Matthew Bower is a British musician, active since the early 1980s, who has done both collaborative and solo work.
Skullflower
Skullflower was formed when Bower joined up with Stefan Jaworzyn, Gary Mundy and Stuart Dennison in 1987 having prev ...
,
Philip Best
Philip Neil Best (born 15 June 1968) is an English industrial musician, visual artist, and author. A pioneer of power electronics, he formed the band Consumer Electronics in 1982 at age 14.
Best joined the group Whitehouse, in 1983. After a nine ...
,
Drunkdriver,
Ray Brassier
Raymond Brassier (born 1965) is a British philosopher. He is member of the philosophy faculty at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, known for his work in philosophical realism. He was formerly Research Fellow at the Centre for Research ...
,
Junko and
Jack Callahan.
Discography
*Feb 2001 Mattin: ''Betzain'' CDr w.m.o/r 00 (UK)
*Mar 2001 Mattin: ''Tinnitus'' CDr w.m.o/r 01 (UK)
*Jun 2001 Mattin/Prevost/Parlane: ''Sakada'' CD w.m.o/r 02 (UK)
*Jul 2001 Mattin: ''Higu'' CDr w.m.o/r 03 (UK)
*Sep 2001 BI RAK (Mattin/Dennis Dubovtsev): ''Betzain'' CDr w.m.o/r 04 (UK)
*May 2002 Mattin/Rosy Parlane/Xabier Erkizia: ''Mendietan'' CD w.m.o/r 05 (UK)
*Nov 2002 Sakada: ''Undistilled'' CD
Matchless Records (UK)
*Mar 2003 Mattin: ''Gora'' CDr Twothousanand (UK)
*Apr 2003 Mattin/Rosy Parlane: ''Agur'' 3” CDr
Absurd Records (Greece)
*Apr 2003 Belaska: ''Vault'' CD w.m.o/r 06 (UK)
*Sept 2003 Sakada 3”CD
Sound 323 (UK)
*Feb 2004
Radu Malfatti
Radu Malfatti is an Austrian trombone and harmonica player, and composer. He was born in Innsbruck, in the province of Tyrol, on December 16, 1943. Malfatti is associated with the style of music known as reductionism and has been described as "a ...
/Mattin: ''WHITENOISE'' CD w.m.o/r 07 (EH)
*Apr 2004 Taku Sugimoto, Yasuo Totsuka & Mattin: ''Training Thoughts'' CD w.m.o/r 09 (EH)
*May 2004 Margarida Garcia & Mattin: ''For Permitted Consumption'' CDr L´imnomable (Slovenia)
*May 2004 MATTINBARNES: Live at Issue, NYC. CDr
Quakebasket (USA)
*May 2004 Radu Malfatti, Klaus Filip, Mattin, Dean Roberts: ''Building Excess'' CD
Grob Records (Germany)
*May 2004 Sakada: ''Never Give Up in the Margins of Logic'' 3"CD Antiopic (USA)
*Aug 2004 Sakada: ''Bilbao Resiste, Resiste Bilbao'' CDr
Fargone Records (USA)
*Aug 2004 Junko & Mattin: ''Pinknoise'' CD w.m.o/r 13 (EH)
*Sept 2004 Mattin: Basque Rd CDr Document (Australia)
*Oct 2004 Mattin / Dion Workman: ''Via Vespucci'' CD
Antifrost (Barcelona/Athens)
*Oct 2004 Mattin & Taku Unami: ''shyrio no'' computer CD w.m.o/r/hibari (EH/Japan)
*v 2004 Sakada: ''Askatuta'' CDr
The Rizhome Label (Australia)
*Jul 2005 Billy Bao: ''Bilbo's Incinerator'' 7 ¨ w.m.o/r (EH)
*Jul 2005 NMM-''No More Music at the service of capital'' (Lucio Capece & Mattin) CDr Why Not LTD (Malaysia) Rereleased by NO SESO (Argentina) in Aug 2006
*Sept 2005 Deflag Haemorrhage / Haien Kontra: ''Luxury'' CDr w.m.o/r (UK)
*Sept 2005 Mattin: ''Songbook'' CDr hibari (Japan)
*Nov 2005 Billy Bao: ''R'nR Granulator'' CD w.m.o/r (UK)
*Dec 2005 Dion Workman / Mattin: ''S3'' CD
Formed Records (USA)
*Jan 2006 Francis/Guerra/Stern/Mattin 7" cmr (New Zealand)
*Feb 2006 Billy Bao: ''Auxilio!'' CDr Herbal Live Series (Austria)
*Feb 2006 Mattin ''Songbook vol.2'' CDr Ausaider Magazine (Ukrania)
*Feb 2006 La Grieta ''Hermana Hostia'' CDr w.m.o/r (UK)
*March 2006 Mattin & Cremaster ''Barcelona'' CDr
Audiobot (Belgium)
*May 2006 Guionnet/Denzler/Unami/Mattin CDr
Fargone Records (USA)
*May 2006 Mattin ''Songbook vol.3'' Black Petal CDr (Japan)
*May 2006 Radu Malfatti / Mattin ''Going Fragile'' CD
Formed Records (USA)
*June 2006 Josetxo Grieta ''Reminder of a Precious Life'' CDr
Audiobot (Belgium)
*June 2006 Kneale/Mattin ''con-v'' CDr (Spain)
*Aug 2006 Axel Doerner & Mattin ''Berlin'' CD
Absurd Records/1000+1 Tilt (Greece)
*Sept 2006 Lene Grenager, Harald Fetveit, Lasse Marhaug, Lucio Capece & Mattin "cdr" CDr The Seedy R! (New Zealand)
*Sept 2006 MATTINBARNES ''Achbal al Atlas'' CD
Little Enjoyer (NYC)
*Oct 2006 Mattin ''Songbook vol. 4'' CD Azul Discográfica (NYC)
*Oct 2006 Tony Conrad, Tim Barnes & Mattin CD ''Celebrate'' PSI Phenomenon (New Zealand)
*Nov 2006 NMM “UNIVERSAL PROSTITUTION” CD iDEAL, absurd, 8mm (Sweden, Italy, Greece)
*Nov 2006 MATTIN 'PROLETARIAN OF NOISE' CD hibari (Japan)
*Dec 2006 Josetxo Grieta ''Euskal Semea'' CD w.m.o/r (Berlin)
*May 2007 Matthew Bower & Mattin ''A New Form of Beauty'' (1975) CD
Bottrop-Boy (Berlin)
*Jul 2007 Ryu Hankil, Jin Sangtae, Taku Unami, Mattin: 5 modules III CDr manual modules (Seul)
*Oct 2007 Claudio Rocchetti/Mattin ''Long Live Anti-Copyright, Death to Intellectual Property'' CDr Troglosound (Italy)
*Oct 2007 Mattin split with Analoge Suicide & GEN 26 ''
' 3" CDr (Ljublijana)
*Oct 2007 Mattin/Taku Unami ''Attention'' CD h.m.o/r (Tokyo/Berlin)
*Nov 2007 Billy Bao ''Fuck Separation'' EP S-S Records (Sacramento)
*Dec 2007 Mattin ''Broken Subject'' CDr Free Software Series (Berlin)
*Feb 2008 Billy Bao ''Dialectics of Shit'' LP Parts Unknown (NYC)
*Feb 2008 Billy Bao ''Accumulation'' 7" Xerox Music (London)
*March 2008 Josetxo Grieta ''Sonrisas vendo, Donde nos llevan'' CDr Taumaturgia (A Coruna)
*June 2008 Junko & Mattin LP Tochnit Aleph (Berlin)
*June 2008 Josetxo Grieta ''The Art of Distraction'' LP Ozono Kids (Barcelona)
*August 2008 Junko, Michel Henritzi & Mattin ''JE T' AIME!'' CDr Absurd (Athens)
*January 2009 Josetxo Grieta ''DISTANCIA No. 2387'' CDr Hamaika (Euskal Herria)
*January 2009 Josetxo Grieta ''"Hitzak, Eginak, Animaliak, Pertsonak'' DVD Discos Crudos (Bilbo)
*May 2009 Billy Bao ''Sacrilege'' CD Afterburn (Melbourne)
*June 2009 DEFLAG HAEMORRHAGE/HAIEN KONTRA re-issue of ''Luxury'' CD Tochnit Aleph (Berlin)
*June 2009 DEFLAG HAEMORRHAGE/HAIEN KONTRA ''Humiliated'' CD Tochnit Aleph (Berlin)
*June 2009 CONSUMER ELECTRONICS ''Crowd Pleaser'' LP Hand to Mouth (Berlin)
*July 2009 Billy Bao ''MAY 08'' LP Parts Unknown (NYC)
*July 2009 Billy Bao ''I am going to kill all the rich man'' cassette drone errant (USA)
*August 2009 Alan Courtis, Bruce Russell, Eddie Prevost & Mattin ''The Sakada Sessions'' LP Azul Discografica (NYC)
*August 2009 DRUNKDRIVER/MATTIN ''List of Profound Insecurities'' 12'' Badmaster (Philadelphia)
*October 2009 MATTIN & MALATESTA cassette Ozono Kids (Barcelona)
*February 2010 MATTIN & TAKU UNAMI ''Distributing Vulnerability to the Affective Classes'' CDr Rumpsti Pumsti (Berlin)
*March 2010 Billy Bao ''Urban Disease'' LP PAN (Berlin)
*April 2010 La Grieta ''decisión'' CDr Black Petal (Tokyo)
*May 2010 Ray Brassier, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Seijiro Murayama, Mattin ''Idioms and Idiots'' CD w.m.o/r (Visby)
*December 2010 Mattin ''Object of Thought'' LP Presto!? (Milan)
*October 2011 Mattin ''Exquisite Corpse'' LP Azul Discografica (New York), Ozono Kids (Barcelona), w.m.o/r (Stockholm)
*September 2012 Mattin & Richard Francis ''Lisa Says'' LP aufabwegen (Cologne)
*February 2014 Mattin ''Songbook #5'' LP Disembraining (Brisbane/Melbourne)
*February 2014 Regler ''Regler'' LP 8mm (Oporto)
External links
Mattin websitedownload the book Noise & Capitalism
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Basque musicians
Noise rock musicians
Experimental musicians
Free improvisation
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)