Bio: Matt Davignon is an experimental/ambient drum-machinist living in Oakland, California. Originally born in Western Massachusetts, he spent musically formative years in Northern California, tinkering with tools such as lo-fi
samplers, cassette tapes, household objects,
4-track compositions, extensive chains of guitar effects, prepared
instruments, and field recordings. These explorations fuel and inform
his current work, which most frequently involves processing the sounds
of a drum machine in real-time with various electronic devices.
Characteristics of his music include a focus on textures, arrhythmic
patterns and musical imperfections, with a focus on evoking biological
systems. Matt also co-produces the Luggage Store Gallery Experimental Music series in San Francisco, and has produced odd concerts such as the San Francisco Found Objects Festival and Droneshift. www.ribosomemusic.com
Live Drum Machine mp3s Click here to stream them all
1) Coral (Y2k7 Live Looping Festival, Santa Cruz) (6.33mb)
2) There once was an accident here (6.77mb)
3) Mold (Room series: Batterie!, San Francisco 7-11-08) (7.64 mb)
4) Ricochet Robot (Y2k8 Live Looping Festival, Santa Cruz) (4.29mb)
5) Badge (Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, 1-10-08) (5.09 mb)
6) Fly in Mouth (4.90mb)
7) Electric Fence (Room series: Batterie!, San Francisco 7-11-08) (5.81 mb) 8) Abandoned (Room 7-11-08) (3.74mb)
9) Distractions (Y2k8 Live Looping Festival, Santa Cruz) (4.11 mb)
10) Edgetone Summit 2007 (with Tom Nunn: electro-acoustic percussion boards) (4.46mb)
11) An entire live set from the Y2k6 International Live Looping Festival, Oct 21, 2006 (21.4 mb)
Thursday, July 16th, 6:30 pm, free Marotta Hour series OSU Urban Arts Gallery 50 W. Town Street, Suite 130 Columbus, OH Solos and duo with Larry Marotta (guitar)
Friday, July 17th: International Children's Art Gallery (ICAG) 5020 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA
Solos & groups: Matt Davignon (drum machine), Michael Klobuchar (guitar) , Steve Sciuilli (bowls/electronics) Maurice Rickard (various instruments)
Saturday, July 18th, 8:30 PM, $6 Exotic Hypnotic Festival at ArtScape 2009 21 W Royal Ave, 5th Floor Baltimore, MD http://exotichypnotic.org/
Wednesday, July 22nd 7:00 pm, $5 The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104 http://www.therotunda.org
Matt Davignon (drum machine) Matt Weston (drums) and others Synapse Brothers (experimental jazz duo: Bob Gluck - keys, John Myers - guitars/MIDI)
Sunday, July 26th 8:00pm, $5 ABC No Rio (COMA music series) 156 Rivington St New York, NY http://www.abcnorio.org/
1. Matt Davignon: drum machine 2. Shiro Onuma (Tokyo) drum, Blaise Siwula (Brooklyn) sax 3. An Open Session
Required On-site Equipment: --Amplifier or PA system, with inputs for 1/4" cables or RCA. --Chair
Some nice things people said: "Davignon coaxes a shifting,
kaleidoscopic ecosystem from his chosen black box.” - Chris Sharp,
The WIRE
"sometimes spare and crackling,
alternately taking turns into what ’70s kraut rock may have sounded
like to dolphins — fragile and gorgeous and stubbornly weird." - San Francisco Bay Guardian
“…drum machines manipulated in such a stimulating fashion that the
results are both stunningly multi-faceted and totally mind altering.”
– Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes
Featured Past Performances:
--Santa Cruz Live Looping Festival. October 18, 2008. Pearl Alley Studios --Placard Headphone Festival. October 14, 2007. The Lab, San Francicso. --Edgetone New Music Summit. (Duo with instrument inventor Tom Nunn.) July 25, 2007. Community Music Center, San Francisco. --San Francisco Electronic Music Festival. August 12, 2006. SomArts. --Project Soundwave: Live Play. June 9, 2006. Artists Television Access, San Francisco. --House Music: Domestic Found Objects Concert. April 4, 2004. San Jose Museum of Art.
