Work, Work, Work

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1.	Matmos and Coelacanth - Wood and Tooth 08:16	info	buy track
2.	Matmos and Sagan - "I will not deny, though my memory is uncertain and indistinct, that this witness of yours may have seen us together as he says, on the Gainesville pike walking towards Big Cyprus Swamp, at half past eleven on that awful night. That we bore electric lanterns... 04:35	info	buy track
3.	Matmos and Sagan - Be the Rose Panther 03:32	info	buy track
4.	Matmos and Michael Brown - The Miracle of the Washstand Glass 07:43	info	buy track
5.	Matmos and Michael Brown - The Little People have been there and done your work fingers light and cold as spring wind through the rooms 10:28	info	buy track
6.	DISC - DISC - DiscRot, or The Aging of the New Music 05:48	info	buy track
7.	Matmos and Sutekh and Safety Scissors - The Dream Lobby 05:13	info	buy track
8.	Matmos and Safety Scissors and Sutekh - Locations in the Complex Plane 02:50	info	buy track
9.	Matmos and Sutekh and Safety Scissors - Docking Sequence 06:19	info	buy track

about

As some of you may know from painful firsthand experience, Matmos spent 97 hours performing live in Gallery One of the San Francisco Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (October 2003) as part of their "Work, Work, Work" installation and residency.

Each afternoon from one pm until the museum closed, Matmos hosted improvisational concerts with pals, friends, and gullible strangers. Much of the resulting sound, though sadly (?) not all, was recorded onto DAT tape. After the dust had cleared, the shameful process of culling something worthy of listening to from this archive was boldly taken up by M. C. Schmidt with much generous assistance from Wobbly.

The results are now available here. Some of these excerpted recordings are untouched, and others have had the boring bits cut out, and some are edited so much that the editing itself has become more interesting than what's left.

Technical note: be advised that when this music was heard in the gallery space, it was bathed in a deep, cavernous reverb worthy of Stuart Dempster (or an insecure goth vocalist's 4 track demo). You may want to remix accordingly, and play these soundfiles off a boombox in a cathedral or airplane hangar.

Happy Listening!

-Matmos (Dr. Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt 2003)

P.S. A note about the covers. This was originally intended to be released only on CD-r with a handmade cover for each, handmade with the proviso that each cover should somehow include a portrait of an idealized museum security guard.

This idealization was drawn by Darcy Bartoletti. We have included some of the covers we remembered to scan, they were collaged by M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel and many others.

credits

released August 2, 2017

Matmos and Friends, 2003

Thank you to the San Francisco Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for having us for such a long time!

Wobbly is always a great help editing things.

Love to all.

Credits are attached to individual songs.

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Experimental electronic music duo originally from San Francisco but now residing in Baltimore.

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