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Matthew Welch
Experimental / Classical / Other

also check out my Band www.myspace.com/blarvuster



BROOKLYN, New York
United States

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Last Login:  11/26/2009
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   Matthew Welch: General Info
Member Since11/7/2005
Band Websitewww.myspace.com/blarvuster
Band MembersProjects include: BLARVUSTER -- Blarvuster is the ensemble dedicated performing Welch's music. Members include: Leah Paul - flutes / Max Mandel - viola / Mary Halvorson - electric guitar / Matt Hough - electric guitar / Emily Manzo - piano / Ian Riggs - electric bass / Joe Bergen - percussion / Tomas Fujiwara....................................... New Release on Tzadik.............. Ikue Mori's Bhima Swarga---Bhima Swarga is a fascinating film project from one of the most creative electronic musicians around. Delightfully animating traditional paintings from the Kertha Gosa temple ceiling in Bali, Mori depicts the journey of the soul from hell to heaven in two versions: one scored using her signature laptop electronics and one scored by Matt Welch, featuring a full gamelan ensemble augmented by Ikue's electronics and Welch on saxophone and percussion. A spectacular audiovisual presentation for all ages......... Personnel: Ikue Mori: Electronics/ Gamelan Dharma Swara: Matthew Welch/ Lela Chapman/ Tomoko Deguchi/ Eric Hung/ Travis Jiorle/ Putu Bagus Khrisna Saptanyana/ Elizabeth Leininger/ Andrew McGraw/ Willa Roberts/ Christopher Romero/ I Nyoman Saptanyana/ ............New Release............ Rusted Breath Quiet Hands (Muud Records)...... Welch-alto sax/Craig Colorusso - el. guitar............. ambient improvised lyrical minimalism
Record LabelTzadik, Mode, Leo, Newsonic, Muud, Parallactic
Type of LabelIndie


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Oct 21 2009 8:00P
Playing Julia Wolfe’s LAD @ Le Poisson Rouge New York
Oct 26 2009 8:00P
Blarvuster and Chamber pieces @ Cornelia St Cafe NEW YORK
Nov 6 2009 8:00P
Percussia plays "Variasi Ombak" @ Drew University Madison, New Jersey
Nov 10 2009 4:00P
Playing Julia Wolfe’s LAD - Cantaloupe CD release show NEW YORK
Nov 17 2009 1:00P
New CD "Luminosity" out on Porter Records BROOKLYN
Nov 17 2009 8:00P
James Moore plays GGG (banjo version) @ the stone NEW YORK
Nov 21 2009 8:00P
with Dither el. guitar 4tet @ The Stone NEW YORK
Jan 16 2010 8:00P
Solo Bagpipes and Blarvuster @ Issue Project Room Brooklyn

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   About Matthew Welch
The music of Matthew Welch (b.1976) stems from a remarkably multi-faceted foundation. Matthew holds two university degrees in Experimental Music Composition, a BFA from Simon Fraser University (1999), and an MA form Wesleyan University (2001), studying with noted composers such as Barry Truax, Rodney Sharman, Alvin Lucier and Anthony Braxton. His compositions range from traditional-like bagpipe tunes to electronic pieces, improvisation strategies and fully notated works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles and orchestra. He has also taken part in a number of compositional collaborations with Indonesian Gamelan composer-performers in Bali and Java, performed in free improvisation contexts with numerable New York City improvisors, and played with art rockers in the Brooklyn underground. As a virtuoso of the Highland Bagpipe, he studied traditional music with Gold Medalist masters such as Colin MacLellan, Jack Lee, Angus MacLellan and Andrew Wright. Matthew also was a member of the four - time World Champion Simon Fraser University Pipe Band, winning with them in 1999 and 2001. As an ambassador for the instrument, Matthew has premiered a number of new compositions written for bagpipes by contemporary composers. This involvement with a more diverse musical context has led him into an expansion of his instrumental array to include alternative bagpipe configurations, accordion and various saxophones. Indonesian Gamelan percussion music, both Javanese and more recently, Balinese, have been another focus of Matthew's, which he has pursued throughout his academic career, with the New York Indonesian Consulate gamelans, and in Bali. Matthew appears on Anthony Braxton's 10 [Solo Bagpipe] Compositions, 2000, and a few compact discs of his own music, Ceol Nua (Leo 336, 2002) highlighting orchestral and chamber works, Hag at the Churn (Newsonic 33, 2003), a collection of electronic concoctions and Dream Tigers (on John Zorn's Tzadik Records' Composer Series 8015, 2005) a program of ecstatic chamber music featuring his critically acclaimed string quartet, Siubhal Turnlar. His compositions for Balinese Gamelan Semara Dana are featured in his multi-media collaboration with Ikue Mori known as Bhima Swarga (Tzadik DVD edition 3007, 2007). The eclectic breadth of his interests in Celtic music, gamelan, minimalism, improvisation and rock also converge in compositional amalgams for his New York based ensemble, Blarvuster. ......"The Brooklyn-based composer leaps vast geographical distances, imagining statistically implausible musical melting pots that sound utterly natural...a composer possessed of both rich imagination and the skill to bring his fancies to life" - TimeOut NY "some serious bagpipe wizardry...as far as I can tell, Matt Welch must be the Eddie Van Halen of the bagpipes." - Pop Matters

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Matthew Welch's Friends Comments
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Tadanori KANNO

Tadanori KANNO



Nov 16 2009 5:43 PM

Thanks for your good music!
ARIGATO!!
Leisure Class

Leisure Class



Nov 13 2009 4:02 PM



"The brooding image of Stalin,
I'm everybody's little darlin'."



www.leisureclass.net
It's better than music.
 
greg davis

greg davis



Nov 12 2009 6:23 PM

matt,
i got Luminosity in the mail today. it is really wonderful.
i particularly like the bagpipe pieces. they are like charlemagne palestine and yoshi wada wrapped up together. so good!
erin

erin



Nov 12 2009 6:23 PM

matthew welch!
a) long time, no talk!
b) i'm taking a little trip to your neck of the woods around new years - maybe we will actually cross paths.  :)
Christopher Lacassagne, COMPOSITEUR

Christopher Lacassagne, COMPOSITEUR



Oct 18 2009 3:59 AM

Thanks for the add,
 


Artisticly,
Christopher Lacassagne, composer.
Carbonoproyecto

Carbonoproyecto



Oct 18 2009 3:59 AM

Muchas gracias!! Un gran descubrimiento para mí tu música, very refreshingly!!
I like to invite you to visit our site and listen and read for our work in experimental and improvised music and lyrics.
Jack Oleg

Jack Oleg



Oct 18 2009 3:59 AM

The Criterion Band

The Criterion Band



Oct 10 2009 3:01 AM

Hi Matthew Welch, check out our new track "Long Legs"
Angélica Negrón

Angélica Negrón



Sep 27 2009 12:35 AM

thanks matthew! i really enjoyed your piece too : )
Paul Sumner

Paul Sumner



Sep 24 2009 5:21 PM

Hello Matthew
Best wishes from the North of England.
Paul
Blarvuster

Blarvuster



Sep 24 2009 5:21 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Roor-AexVyU
Emiko Shirayama

Emiko Shirayama



Sep 8 2009 9:48 PM

Thank you for the friendship!
I enjoyed your tracks.
I'm looking forward to your new tracks!

Best wishes,

emiko
Vinnie Zummo

Vinnie Zummo



Sep 8 2009 9:48 PM

Hi Matthew ,
Just want to let your friends know.......
Former Joe Jackson guitarist Vinnie Zummo JAZZ BRUNCH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
August 9th.

The Vinnie Zummo Trio
with
Cameron Brown : Bass
Ray Marchica: Drums
Featuring Janice Zummo : Vocals

AT THE BLUE NOTE  August 9th.
                                                  
SUNDAY JAZZ BRUNCH 2 sets   12:30 PM  and 2:30 PM

The Blue Note
131 West 3rd.St.
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Kota Nakamura-Composer

Kota Nakamura-Composer



Sep 8 2009 9:48 PM

Hi Matthew,
Thank you for the add.
The tracks are great!

best
billygomberg

billygomberg



Sep 8 2009 9:48 PM



days is now available from The Land Of

billygomberg

billygomberg



Sep 8 2009 9:48 PM



comme is now available from mOAR

Berger Rond

Berger Rond



Sep 8 2009 9:48 PM

Hello to everybody ! Great news !!

Audiomachie / Logomachie

(Berger rond, #VVSBR05)
(2009) SOCAN

1) Audiomachie (6:21)
2) Une ombre vacille en serpentin virevoltant (6:58)
3) Bruissement de griserie (9:55)
4) Propensity to go forward (7:36)
5) Drawing of a Back with a Mouth (4:24)
6) Second Life (3:50)

(39:12)

- The project was about trying to explore different poetry styles, always with different instrumentations and musical structures because I don't want to repeat a single one
- An album not directly linked to the four previous ones, but with the impossible to avoid come back to fetish themes
- Second Life is about the technological phenomena, but I got better things to do with my life than spending it on the clone of a capitalist society
- We might as well hope for a real bankrupcy for all of us, it would be worth it to kill capitalism

Most of you will just want to listen to the music made available. Well, here it is with great streaming (right after MA VIE est ICI which is a reminder of my previous album conclusion)
http://www.freakywaves.com
ZAMA

ZAMA



Sep 8 2009 9:48 PM

Fantastic mister welch



Friendly f.s
MOLECULE

MOLECULE



Sep 8 2009 9:48 PM

HELLO,
I SPENT A VERY NICE TRIP IN YOUR UNIVERSE !!!!
GREAT SOUNDS !!!
ALL THE BEST.
MOLECULE.
(paris)
www.molekule.fr
TAKLAMAKAN

TAKLAMAKAN



Sep 8 2009 9:48 PM

NEW RELEASE:

"crna sluz" (79:04 min.)
LTD. 66 CD-R's IS NOW AVAILABLE FROM
Drô6n Records OR Svartgalgh Records
FOR 3,50 euro + p&p.


crna sluz 7904 min., LTD. 66 CD-Rs, DRO6N RECORDS, NETHERLANDS,  2009.  http//www.myspace.com/droooooon

soft

soft



Jul 5 2009 4:16 PM

love your music
soft

soft



Jul 5 2009 4:16 PM

thanks for accepting
as always here everything is a big lie...



icees1992

Icees allison



Jul 5 2009 4:16 PM

hi thanks for adding me to your friends list best to all your dreams. it is so cool to meet you .;] icees1992
577 Records

577 Records



May 1 2009 2:54 PM

Kirk Knuffke
Federico Ughi
Chris Welcome

New CD out now
Garden Of Gifts

http://www.577records.com

Saturday, May 2nd 2009 9pm

Garden Of Gifts ~ CD release concert
at I-Beam Brooklyn

168 7th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215

http://ibeambrooklyn.com
Jack Beals

Jack beals



May 1 2009 2:54 PM

Thank you Matthew!




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