New Mistakes

NEW EP: 'Hedges & Norsa & Willy' OUT NOW!!

Contact Norsa at mattnorsa@gmail.com

I was trained in tradition, yet I stepped beyond its walls. Sound is my language, not to decorate but to liberate. Composer, performer, and listener — one fire, three sparks, inseparable.

I write and compose to uncover what is hidden: the truth buried beneath power, the dignity of the ordinary, the current of awareness that flows through all.

I belong to no authority, only to sound, to truth, to the silence from which all begins. My work is not mastery, but remembrance — a manifesto in every note, every word, every breath.

I am a composer of the 21st century: a studio artist. The studio is my forge, my battlefield, my sanctuary. Machines hum like choirs, circuits burn like torches, cables twist like roots in the earth. Tradition breaks open in this fire — the score turns to light, the instrument becomes the world itself.

To be a studio artist is to seize sound at its rawest, to sculpt electricity and breath as one, to summon the invisible power that belongs to all. Here music is not bound by walls, not enslaved by profit, not tamed by form. It is free, untouchable, unending — a living flame for the century that is ours.

Japanese indie Pop/Rock band unit  "I AM NOT...(kanako not and masaru not)" that was active over from 2007 to 2014. These songs were made during the activity period. In 2015, the band broke up. We have been playing music separately now.

I AM NOT...(2007-2014)
kanako not : vocal, guitar, bass.
masaru not : guitar, bass and all programing.

kanako's favorites : Guided By Voices, Pixies, My Bloody Valentine, Pavement, Superchunk, Stereo Total, Shaggs, Jan Švankmajer, Alejandro Jodorowsky.

masaru's favorites : CAN, NEU, Faust, Guru Guru, Soft Machine, Matching Mole, Gong,  Hawkwind, Swell Maps, Red Crayola, Johnathan Richman, Monty Python, Aki Kaurismäki.

I teach in US higher education (in a STEM field) & am a hobbyist composer writing in a few different styles. I recommend headphones. All of my music is released under a Creative Commons Attribution/Noncommercial license.

My bandcamp page is getting out of date again, but some older albums there can be downloaded for free or for a name-your-own price donation.

If anyone wants to try performing any of this stuff on real instruments please send a message and I can provide scores. Not sure how playable some of it is for human musicians though.

Unsolicited messages asking me to listen to your latest song will lead to you being blocked unless if I know you well and we've interacted a lot.

My music is written without the use of AI, though some of my older albums used jankier, older (pre-chatGPT) AI for album art.

Hope you enjoy and thanks for visiting!

Main DAW :  Studio one pro 7    Mixcraft pro 10 studio    Ability pro 5

Your Guide through the Abyss

Ambient experiments, guitar chimes and heartfelt static.  Most of  these tracks are single takes with little or no post-production.

influences: Marumari, Lali Puna, Looper, R.E.M. , Tenmon, Gorki, Grauzone , Sisters, Banshees,  Pumpkins, Joy Division, Basil Poledouris, Tangerine Dream, Yoko Kanno, Jim Henson and associates and many many more



recommended viewing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqxcgH9AOK4&t=3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiCv7qSxWeM

Dutch sound artist with long standing interests in transcending conventional instrument approaches and the use of non-instrumental organic and homemade sounds. If you would like to stay informed about new releases please subscribe to the Martin Hoogeboom newsletter mailing list on my website
www.martinhoogeboom.com

If you have questions regarding my work or you want to collaborate on future projects, please use the following email-address: m.hoogeboom@wxs.nl.

From May 2025 most of my official releases will only be found on Bandcamp and other streaming services. This Soundcloud page will be used mainly for unreleased tracks and demo-recordings.

New Mistakes

Fish to Lizard