Døre 19 / koncert kl 20
Bemærk: Koncerten foregår i Valby Kulturhus

De evige lydudforskere i Matmos rammer København til sommer med deres nyeste udgivelse: Et portræt af den polske polyhistor Bogusław Schaeffer, som tager os med på en skramlet og dansabel tidsrejse fra 1960’ernes utopiske polske avantgarde til 2020’ernes dystopiske tilstande. Max Eilbacher spiller et support set.

Ingen lydkilde synes fremmed for M.C. Schmidt og Drew Daniel, der ud over at samarbejde i duoen Matmos også privat danner par. Duoen, der helt fra starten har bygget deres musik op omkring sampling af hverdagslyde med lige dele bizar humor, klinisk grundforskning, avantgardistisk collage og queer blik på samfundet, kan fremstå som den elektroniske musiks nutty professors. Men de går altid til arbejdet med grundighed og underfundighed.. Og man må tage hatten af for en duo, der formår at skabe decideret dansabel musik ud af lyden af plastikoperationer, som de notorisk gjorde på hovedværket “A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure” (2001). Eller som tager på en hel tour slæbende på en tjekkisk vaskemaskine, og som formår at skabe en medrivende koncert ud af noget så umiddelbart usexet som et vaskeprogram. Eller da de opførte et helt værk komponeret af plastiklyde i 2019 på Copenhagen Contemporary præsenteret af ALICE.

Matmos’ kommende album “Regards / Ukłony dla Bogusław Schaeffer” er et portræt af den polske polyhistor Bogusław Schaeffer, som fra 1960’erne og flere årtier frem eksperimenterede i krydsfeltet mellem klassisk komposition, elektronisk musik og radikalt teater. Med adgang til hele Schaeffers bagkatalog på Adama Mickiewicza Instituttet i Warsawa, fik duoen lov til på ægte Matmotsk vis at klippe i Schaeffers værker og sætte dem sammen igen. I møder mellem fortid og nutid tager duoen vævsprøver af DNA fra den polske polyhistors kompositioner og muterer dem til helt nye organismer, der dunker med en både fremmed og nutidig vitalitet. Det er et sammensat portræt, hvor 1960’ernes utopiske polske avantgarde og 2020’ernes dystopi ser hinanden på historisk afstand gennem panoramisk modernistisk komposition, 70’er dub, industrial, og mørk ambient. 

Vi glæder os til at præsentere Matmos i Valby Kulturhus til juni, når de opfører “Regards / Ukłony dla Bogusław Schaeffer”. 

Max Eilbacher

Den amerikanske Berlin-baserede multikunstner Max Eilbacher åbner for Matmos. Med sin baggrund i computermusik og filmkunst arbejder han ud fra konceptuelle og intuitive kompositionssystemer, og han har opført sine værker i diverse gallerier, klubber, museer og kældre rundt i Nordamerika, Europa og Japan. Vi glæder os til at høre hvad han finder på denne aften.

The two sound fetischists of the celebrated sampling duo Matmos hit Copenhagen this Summer with their new album: A sound portrait of polymath Bogusław Schaeffer, taking us from the utopian 1960s Polish avant-garde to the contemporary dystopian cultural moment through a wreck of modernist composition, sixties tape music, seventies dub, industrial music, postrock and dark ambient. Max Eilbacher is playing a support set.

No sound seems unuseful to the celebrated electronic duo Matmos aka M.C. Schmidt og Drew Daniel, who besides their music are also a couple. The duo, who for almost three decades have built their music on sampling of everyday sounds with equally bizarre humor, avantgardistic collage and a queer view on society, always approach their work with thoroughness, subtlety and consistency. Who else manages to create danceable music from the sounds of plastic surgery, as they notoriously did on the masterpiece  ‘A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure’ (2001)? Or who else would bring an old washing machine on an entire tour, creating an amazing concert out of a washing programme, as they did at Jazzhouse in 2016? Also their performance of “Plastic Anniversary” at CC presented by ALICE in 2019 was impressive.

On their new album “Regards / Ukłony dla Bogusław Schaeffer”, Matmos focus on Polish polymath Bogusław Schaeffer Celebrated in his native land but not widely known beyond, Schaeffer innovated for decades across the boundaries of classical composition, electronic experimentation, and radical theater in playfully form breaking ways. At the suggestion of Michal Mendyk of the Instytutu Adama Mickiewicza in Warsaw, Matmos were given access to the entire catalog of Schaeffer’s recorded works to use as they saw fit. Neither performances nor remixes, the resulting encounters between past and present take tissue samples of DNA from past compositions and mutate them into entirely new organisms that throb with an alien vitality. What emerges across this suite of eight new songs is a composite portrait of the utopian 1960s Polish avant-garde and the contemporary dystopian cultural moment regarding each other across a distance. Offering a “life review” of production styles, “Regards / Ukłony dla Bogusław Schaeffer” builds temporary shelters out of the panoramic wreckage of modernist composition, sixties tape music, seventies dub, industrial music, nineties post rock, dark ambient and more.

We can’t wait to see what’s in store for Matmos when ALICE presents the sampling duo at Valby Kulturhus this Summer.

Max Eilbacher

Max Eilbacher is an intermedia artist from Baltimore Maryland, based in Berlin. He studied computer music and cinematic arts while maintaining an active touring schedule. With a number of different groups and projects, he works with conceptual and intuitive compositional systems that square the circle of the raw moment and the controlled display of an outcome. He has presented works in various galleries, clubs, museums, and basements all across North America, Europe, and Japan. Max Eilbacher will play an opening set before Matmos.