Matt Carlson
Matt Carlson is an American electronic musician and composer based in Portland, Oregon, who works mainly with modular and analogue synthesizers, often combined with voice. He is best known as one half of the duo Golden Retriever, with bass clarinettist Jonathan Sielaff, and for solo albums that move between melodic synthesizer music and experimental vocal pieces. Matt Carlson has also played in the electronic drone trio Bonus and the pop group Parenthetical Girls, and runs his own label, Bucket Factory. Golden Retriever released records on NNA Tapes and Thrill Jockey, including Seer (2014).
All Moments
NNA is proud to present our 50th release, Matt Carlson's All Moments long-playing record. Where 2011's Particle Language LP acted as a study in texture and density within experimental synthesizer music, All Moments finds Carlson engaging with the more traditional musical materials of melody, harmony, and rhythm, calling to mind his work as one half of Portland, OR duo Golden Retriever. The pieces on this record range from shorter pop études to longer, more open improvisatory synth studies, r…
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Aakash
Aakash marks the debut recording of the Portland, Oregon-based trio of Matt Carlson (Golden Retriever), Michael Stirling (a disciple of the late Hindustani master Pandit Pran Nath and a student of Terry Riley), and Doug Theriault. Derived from live improvisational performances, the record finds Carlson's rich analog synthesizers joined by real-time processing of Stirling's lilting voice and Theriault's idiosyncratic guitar work and electronics. Dipping into a kind of liminal void, Aakash isn't j…
The View From Nowhere
The View From Nowhere is a record of experimental electronic music that explores possible relationships between voice and modular synthesis. Composed and recorded by Matt Carlson at Worksound in Portland Oregon, the record develops and expands ideas discernible in his early solo works or as one-half of the duo Golden Retriever. Built with a clear unity of approach centered on the voice and text as elements in synthesis, the record flattens the distance between the vocal and the musical. T…