Guests James Goode and Matt Davignon on 2nd Hour
Photo by Peter Kaars
Matt Davignon is an experimental/ambient musician living in Oakland, California. Originally born in Agawam, Massachusetts, Matt Davignon has been developing his own unique form of improvisation (for better or worse) since 1994. He spent his formative music years locked in a garage in Sonoma County, California, tinkering with tools such as lo-fi samplers, cassette tapes, contact microphones, household objects, extensive chains of guitar effects, prepared instruments, and field recordings. These explorations continued as he moved to San Francisco in 1997, then Oakland in 2001.
In 2003, he discovered he could make more sounds than he could ever imagine by processing the sounds of a drum machine in real-time with various devices. This has been the focus of his work since then. Characteristics of his music include a focus on textures, arrhythmic patterns and musical imperfections, with a focus on evoking biological systems.
On some occasions he can still be seen playing turntable, cassette tape recorders, live samples of other musicians or 'the bucket of crap' - an assortment of household objects and toy instruments. Matt's also a member of Larnie Fox's Crank Ensemble. He has organized events such as the San Francisco Found Objects Festival and Sound/Shift Oakland.
http://www.edgetonerecords.com/davignon.html
http://www.ribosomemusic.com/index.html
http://www.myspace.com/mattdavignon
James Goode
The study of scientific journals, textbooks, and magazines has had a profound effect on both my sound work and the writings that invariably accompany it. For many years, anything relating to the human brain and its neurological underpinnings held me captive; a few of my interests in this area included—and in some cases still include—epilepsy, schizophrenia, autism, migraines, electric shock therapy, hallucinations, and physical injury to the brain and its aftermath (as in the case of Phineas Gage, for example, where a dramatic transformation of personality took place after an accident).
One of the major influences on my music of the past five years has been synesthesia, a condition that affects approximately one in 25,000 people. It is experienced as a sensation produced in one modality when a stimulus is applied to that of another, as when the mating call of an elk induces the visualization of a translucent latticework of electric blue lines before the viewer's eyes.
http://www.myspace.com/jamesdylangoode
http://www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=4081
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