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Matthew Herbert
Matthew Herbert is a musician and producer working predominantly in the field of electronic music. Known for ignoring the boundaries and mangling the conventions traditionally associated with the genre, he is one of the few independently-minded artists to have made a considerable impact on both media and public while striving to be innovative and experimental. As a recording artist since 1996 he has released music on a variety of record labels under aliases such as Doctor Rockit, Wishmountain, Radio Boy, Mr. Vertigo, Transformer, under his own name and with the Matthew Herbert Big Band. In recent years he has played at The Montreux and North Sea Jazz Festivals, Paris’ Pompidou Centre, Tokyo’s Blue Note, Sonar and Glastonbury and supported Bjõrk at the Hollywood Bowl. Along with over ten albums of self-written, produced and performed music, he has contributed production work to albums by Björk and Roisin Murphy and remixed artists as varied as Moloko, R.E.M., Perry Farrell, Serge Gainsbourg, Yoko Ono, John Cale, The Avalanches and Cornelius. He also owns and runs Accidental Records.
Matthew Herbert is a musician and producer working predominantly in the field of electronic music. Known for ignoring the boundaries and mangling the conventions traditionally associated with the genre, he is one of the few independently-minded artists to have made a considerable impact on both media and public while striving to be innovative and experimental. As a recording artist since 1996 he has released music on a variety of record labels under aliases such as Doctor Rockit, Wishmountain, Radio Boy, Mr. Vertigo, Transformer, under his own name and with the Matthew Herbert Big Band. In recent years he has played at The Montreux and North Sea Jazz Festivals, Paris’ Pompidou Centre, Tokyo’s Blue Note, Sonar and Glastonbury and supported Bjõrk at the Hollywood Bowl. Along with over ten albums of self-written, produced and performed music, he has contributed production work to albums by Björk and Roisin Murphy and remixed artists as varied as Moloko, R.E.M., Perry Farrell, Serge Gainsbourg, Yoko Ono, John Cale, The Avalanches and Cornelius. He also owns and runs Accidental Records.
Matthew Herbert DJ Set
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:30:01
VENUE: Moxa Club Piazza Vilfredo Pareto 1, Mantova, Italy 46100
Matthew Herbert
Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:30:00
VENUE: Serendipity Via Industrie, 123, Foligno, Italy 06034
An alchemist of avant-garde sounds following the tradition from Stockhausen to Aphex Twin, Herbert combines a playful pop sensibility with a strong inclination to experiment. He has become a unique figure in the modern history of music and a point of reference for the musicians with whom he collaborates, among which Dani Sicilian, Jamie Lidell, Cornelius, Róisín Murphy and Björk.
Festival Estrella Levante SOS 4.8 2012
Fri, 04 May 2012 02:15:01
VENUE: Recinto Ferial de La Fica Avenida del Primero de Mayo, Murcia, Spain
Festival Internacional de Acción Artística Sostenible
4 mayo
The Magnetic Fields
5 mayo
4 mayo
The Magnetic Fields
5 mayo
One Pig by Matthew Herbert
Wed, 09 May 2012 19:30:00
VENUE: Queen Elizabeth Hall Belvedere Road, London, United Kingdom SE1 8XX
British electronic musician Matthew Herbert presents his most recent project One Pig, the story of a single farm animal from birth to death and beyond. Matthew and his band will retell One Pig's story in a show complete with live audio-visual composition and on-stage cookery.
Herbert was present, microphone in hand, as the animal emerged into the world and continued to document its life in audio as it grew to adulthood. Although he was prevented from recording the pig's death, he recorded its subsequent butchery, cooking, consumption and the use of almost every part of the animal to make diverse products, from candles, a drum, paint and dye to a new musical instrument which plays the animal's blood.
The result is an elegy to an otherwise anonymous farm animal's life. It's a beautiful and compelling account that prompts questions and gives insight into an animal so commonly underestimated, under-appreciated and unacknowledged in our society.
Matthew HerbertAccidental Records
Herbert was present, microphone in hand, as the animal emerged into the world and continued to document its life in audio as it grew to adulthood. Although he was prevented from recording the pig's death, he recorded its subsequent butchery, cooking, consumption and the use of almost every part of the animal to make diverse products, from candles, a drum, paint and dye to a new musical instrument which plays the animal's blood.
The result is an elegy to an otherwise anonymous farm animal's life. It's a beautiful and compelling account that prompts questions and gives insight into an animal so commonly underestimated, under-appreciated and unacknowledged in our society.
Matthew HerbertAccidental Records
FutureEverything Festival 2012
Fri, 18 May 2012 19:30:00
VENUE: RNCM Concert Hall , Manchester, United Kingdom
FutureEverything confirm Matthew Herbert’s spectacular One Pig show, a performance that follows the life of a pig from birth to dinner plate
Matthew Herbert’s One Pig will be performed live on Friday 18th May at RNCM as part of the 2012 FutureEverything festival. The avant-garde musician has created an electronica album that captures the sounds of an anonymous pig’s life on a Kent farm, through to its death at an abattoir, and the consumption of the meat at a banquet hosted in its honour.
This controversial work utilised the pig’s meat, which was turned into musical instruments (and was prepared by Heston Blumenthal) – bunting and tablecloths were made from the blood, the fat became candles, trotters a candelabra, and the pig’s farmyard oinks were recorded and sampled as part of the score.
One Pig debuted at the Royal Opera House in October on a stage filled with hay bales and musicians in white butchers’ coats. A new instrument, designed by Yann Seznec, called a ‘styharp’ was commissioned as part of the project, and will be played live alongside a chef that cooks bacon, onstage, as part of the performance in Manchester.
Matthew Herbert released One Pig in 2011. The album, made entirely from recordings of a modern pig’s life cycle, aimed to listen in on a single farm animal’s life in the context of an otherwise-anonymous food chain. The project generated controversy as PETA condemned One Pig as making “entertainment” from animal cruelty, apparently without first checking key details about Herbert’s intention and methods. Herbert discussed the ideas and approach to One Pig with PETA’s Jobst Eggert in this interview.
Herbert has previously written scores inspired by packets of crisps, human hair, and has pioneered the use of so-called ‘real’, ‘ordinary’ or ‘found’ sounds in modern electronic music. On 2005′s Plat du Jour he recorded music beneath the sewers of fleet street, inside industrial chicken farms, used Vietnamese coffee beans as instruments and once drove a tank over a recreation of the dinner that Nigella Lawson cooked for George Bush and Tony Blair. He also recorded 3500 people biting an apple at the same time.
“Cacophonous explosions, raw sheets of electronic noise and a menacing barrage of percussion gelled into a plausible soundtrack for porcine doomsday… a rare performance that impales you on the prongs of a moral pitchfork.” – The Telegraph
“It’s a fascinating journey forcing us to regard the politics of our food. Could or would anyone else produce this work? No chance, and that’s the beauty of a Herbert recording. Gloriously unique and unsettling provocative. 10/10.” – Clash Magazine
Matthew HerbertOne Pig
Matthew Herbert’s One Pig will be performed live on Friday 18th May at RNCM as part of the 2012 FutureEverything festival. The avant-garde musician has created an electronica album that captures the sounds of an anonymous pig’s life on a Kent farm, through to its death at an abattoir, and the consumption of the meat at a banquet hosted in its honour.
This controversial work utilised the pig’s meat, which was turned into musical instruments (and was prepared by Heston Blumenthal) – bunting and tablecloths were made from the blood, the fat became candles, trotters a candelabra, and the pig’s farmyard oinks were recorded and sampled as part of the score.
One Pig debuted at the Royal Opera House in October on a stage filled with hay bales and musicians in white butchers’ coats. A new instrument, designed by Yann Seznec, called a ‘styharp’ was commissioned as part of the project, and will be played live alongside a chef that cooks bacon, onstage, as part of the performance in Manchester.
Matthew Herbert released One Pig in 2011. The album, made entirely from recordings of a modern pig’s life cycle, aimed to listen in on a single farm animal’s life in the context of an otherwise-anonymous food chain. The project generated controversy as PETA condemned One Pig as making “entertainment” from animal cruelty, apparently without first checking key details about Herbert’s intention and methods. Herbert discussed the ideas and approach to One Pig with PETA’s Jobst Eggert in this interview.
Herbert has previously written scores inspired by packets of crisps, human hair, and has pioneered the use of so-called ‘real’, ‘ordinary’ or ‘found’ sounds in modern electronic music. On 2005′s Plat du Jour he recorded music beneath the sewers of fleet street, inside industrial chicken farms, used Vietnamese coffee beans as instruments and once drove a tank over a recreation of the dinner that Nigella Lawson cooked for George Bush and Tony Blair. He also recorded 3500 people biting an apple at the same time.
“Cacophonous explosions, raw sheets of electronic noise and a menacing barrage of percussion gelled into a plausible soundtrack for porcine doomsday… a rare performance that impales you on the prongs of a moral pitchfork.” – The Telegraph
“It’s a fascinating journey forcing us to regard the politics of our food. Could or would anyone else produce this work? No chance, and that’s the beauty of a Herbert recording. Gloriously unique and unsettling provocative. 10/10.” – Clash Magazine
Matthew HerbertOne Pig
OFF Festival 2012
Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:38:01
- electronic
- experimental
- jazz
- electronica
- minimal
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