Name: Rock Biter by Matt Omahan
Duration: 2 min 17 s
Description: All sounds are from analog synthesis ran through digital sound processing.

Here is the music from the "Chaos" section of Now We Are Here, a dance piece created and choreographed by Professor of Dance Nusha Martynuk.  I scored and provided sound design for the piece in collaboration with Oberlin's Balkan Ensemble.

Composed in the TIMARA studios at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.

Chaos - Excerpt from Now We Are Here

Glacially slow, mildly referential.  A microscopic articulation from noise to pitch.  The perfect listening environment for this piece is on headphones while walking.

Premiered on April 2, 2015 in Oberlin, Ohio.  The audience entered the performance space while this piece was playing.

Suffuse

We are constantly surrounded by little bits of designed sound. From a cell phone’s keyboard clicks on touch screens to synthesized engine noises in electric vehicles, synthesized sounds have reached a new commonality and—in cases such as these—replaced real world sounds. If a synthesized sound reaches the ubiquity and recognizability of that of a real world sound, does it, in turn, become a “real world sound”?

Composed at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and premiered at my senior recital.

Painting is "The Plough and the Song" (1947) by Arshile Gorky, whose visual studio art has served as an inspiration for my own sonic studio art.

The Scattering (2016)

All sounds are from analog synthesis ran through digital sound processing.

Rock Biter

The image is of the oil painting "Collapse Sonata" by Matt Omahan.  For studio art inqueries, email matt.omahan@gmail.com.

Schwan (2)

da damn phreak noize phunk - lunch corner
4E introducing DJ Snax - Wrap me Up
Byron the Aquarius - Space N Time
The Other People Place - Sorrow and a cup of Joy
St. Germain - How dare you
Drivetrain - Paradise Earth
Norm Talley - Detroit Dubz
Swains - Unfulfilled Desire ( D.I.Y. Remix) 
P.H. Concept - High Wired
Shanti Celeste- Strung Up
Rhythm Invention - Fresh Momentum ( Space Dub) 
Bass Rate - Rhythm Nation ( Club Mix) 
Andy Mac - Asteroid Belts
Alfonso X - Wheel of Fortune 
Osunlade - Diamant (instrumental mix)

Swiftly but Softly - love my vinyl

Song about having nothing and then making something

Make Dreams Into Homes

The artwork is an excerpt of my painting "Vermillion" [8"x10" Oil Painting]

And why would I ever want to return?

Written and performed by Matt Omahan.

Track artwork is and excerpt of "Transmission" [16"x20" Oil Painting] by Matt Omahan.

Etude Brutale (for Distorted Solo Cello)

i’d fuck up my life if you told me to
but i don’t need your help
i do it by myself

maybe a lie is a second truth
but i can never tell
so we can’t do this my way

suck up all my time for the moment
drowning in my fault and I know it isn’t healthy
but can anybody sell me for this art

i don’t wanna spend time with you
naw you don’t fucking know me bro just tell me what you got
before i claim your spot
still you’re stuck in my favor
it’s all the same
you got my attention but I won’t listen
can’t walk with conviction
been out of state
so how come i’m burning out
tryna make it out of here alive
 
i want more from men and women
if we take it slow then i won’t hesitate
we could do it thirty minutes
and you can ask me any second of the day
i’m gonna miss you but I’ll never hit the brakes
cos i’m fucking or i’m fucked up
and if I ain’t gonna sing that shit you better see me
work a nine to five to fill my plate

so you best watch me pop
when people get the jist they be like oh my god
i got more time off
still tryna figure out who you are
can’t put my thoughts to speech unless i steal your magic and i put you on my sleeve
all i really know is i should punch the snare in when i’m feeling beat

and i’d fuck up my life if you told me to
but i don’t need your help
i do it by myself

maybe a lie is a second truth
but that shit don’t go well
that shit don’t go well

i suck up all my time for the moment
drowning in my fault and I know it isn’t healthy
but can anybody sell me for this art
nah i don’t wanna leave home
i can’t free smoke and it’s all my fault baby
but it’s alright just know i feel you
i feel you

this ain’t all my love
i got way more love

sunder

@noise.harvester

i harvest noise

composer turned painter painter turned composer I don’t know

Electroacoustic Composition at the University of Manchester // Technology in Music and the Related Arts at Oberlin Conservatory of Music

Rock Biter

Matt Omahan

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