Matmos

In 1998, Matmos remixed the Björk single "Alarm Call". Then the duo worked with Björk on her albums Vespertine (2001) and Medúlla (2004), as well as the Vespertine and Greatest Hits tours. In November 2004, Matmos spent 97 hours in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts as artists-in-residence, performing music with friends, musical guests and onlookers. The live album Work, Work, Work, essentially a "best of" collection of the session, was released as a free download on their website. Matmos gained notoriety for their use of unconventional samples including "freshly cut hair" and "the amplified neural activity of crayfish" on their first album and "recorded the snips, clicks, snaps, and squelches of various surgical procedures, then nipped and tucked them into seven remarkably accessible, melodic pieces of experimental techno" for their album A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure. In 2011, Matmos participated in a programmed evening of events with the visual arts organisation Auto Italia South East. The event was produced in collaboration with record label Upset The Rhythm and included contributions from experimental electronic musicians John Wiese and Birds of Delay. Matmos have since collaborated with a large number of visual artists and arts organisations, including Cafe Oto and Metal. In 2015, Matmos appeared in Soundhunters, a documentary directed by Beryl Koltz and broadcast on the Franco-German channel arte as well as on many channels abroad. In September 2023, the duo announced their album Return to Archive would be released marking the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Smithsonian Folkways label, with a three-hour free concert at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. in which they remixed field recordings from the label's catalogue in octophonic sound. Hit em In 2024, Daniel tweeted about a new musical genre called "Hit Em" which he claims to have learned about during a dream while he was asleep; in the tweet he described the genre to be fixed at 212 BPM and time signature. The post went viral, with electronic music producers attempting to create examples of the fictional genre. ==Personal lives==

Schmidt and Daniel are a couple. Daniel received a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley with a dissertation on the literary cult of melancholy directed by Janet Adelman. He is an associate professor in the English department at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. That had the band moving from San Francisco to Baltimore in August 2007. Daniel also has a personal dance music project, the Soft Pink Truth. He is a contributing writer to Pitchfork, an online magazine, and he wrote the 33 1/3 book about Throbbing Gristle's 1979 album 20 Jazz Funk Greats in addition to two books of literary criticism. Both Schmidt and Daniel appeared in the Carl Sagan music short Unseen Forces by Ryan Junell. ==Discography==

Albums EPs • Full On Night Split Disc with Rachel's (2000, Quarterstick) • California Rhinoplasty (2001 Feb 12, OLE-501) • Rat Relocation Program (2004) • For Alan Turing (2006) • The Ganzfeld EP (2012, on Thrill Jockey 315) Limited edition • Matmos Live with J Lesser (2002) • A Viable Alternative to Actual Sexual Contact, as Vague Terrain Recordings (2002, Piehead Records) • "A Paradise of Dainty Devices: interludes, micromedia & sound edits" (limited edition of 100, for their "Wet Hot EuroAmerican Summer Tour", 2007) • Polychords : Promo Single released on Matador • I Want Snowden/Sheremetyevo Breakdown Blues, split single with the Disco Yahtzee Empire (2013) == References ==