You can make music with everything. Who doesn't even drum on their desk or hit the lid of a pot or pan with a spoon? An entire scene has emerged that processes such home, garden and kitchen sounds into microscopically detailed music. The Californian duo Matmos uses absolutely everything to produce sounds. For example, Drew Daniel and MC Schmidt can enjoy themselves on a hamster cage or each other.
The strangest yet can be found on the album A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure, where sounds from a plastic surgery clinic were transformed into techno. This gave the guzzling sound of a grease vacuum cleaner a completely different dimension. Yet Matmos is more than just a gimmick with a bizarre sense of humor; the productions are also very musical. It is not without reason that they provided the beats and electronics during some of Björk's tours (Vespertine and 2003). On the album The Civil War (2003) Matmos combines very conventional instruments such as the hurdy gurdy, banjo, violin and piano with crackling beats and sound collages. Together with a rabbit skin, blood, glass, an apple and a copy of Henry Kissinger's The Diplomacy that falls to the floor, this results in a fantastic, absurdist, melodic and above all very beautiful album, which is more than worth listening to. . (IV) an apple and a copy of Henry Kissinger's The Diplomacy that falls to the floor, this results in a fantastic, absurdist, melodic and above all very beautiful album, which is more than worth listening to. (IV) an apple and a copy of Henry Kissinger's The Diplomacy that falls to the floor, this results in a fantastic, absurdist, melodic and above all very beautiful album, which is more than worth listening to. (IV)more
