live Buchla performances

This performance was recorded in a park in Somerville, MA just outside Boston, as part of the Somerville ArtBeat Festival. Beautiful Machines is a concert series that was created and curated by Tom Brown, a brilliant producer, guitarist, and DJ, as well as a collaborator on my own electronic music and technology festival in Durham, NC, Slingshot. I had given a performance for Beautiful Machines earlier in the year. Tom and the administrant of Modular On the Spot Boston, Richard Tarantino (making music as Oxalis, another wonderful musician who I shared the bill with at Beautiful Machines) decided to collaborate on a new concert series for the summer, of which this date was a part of. It was very hot and sunny and was a fun and fulfilling performance to a fantastically curious and patient audience.

Live At Somerville ArtBeat 2023 For Beautiful Machines X Modular On The Spot

avant-hard #3/Put Your Ear To The Ground And Listen.WAV

This is the recording of the set I performed for the third iteration of "Retreat" in Richmond VA. A huge thank you to CJ, RVA Hard Dance Collective, and Synthesis for helping us put together this amazing show, featuring performances from yours truly, Marteka Fair, Lady Starlight, CJS, and Field Day.

Live performance @ Retreat 03 : 02.09.2024

Cyber Sacrifice

Just What People Do

A. I. Love U

part 1 of my first set at Feel Listening Lounge in Washington DC

April 13, 2024

Live At Feel Listening Lounge 04132024 Pt1

a non-linear, semi-improvised composition for Buchla 200e and saxophone, performed live at DC's Feel Listening Lounge for Eklektik Elektrik Residency Session #2

a Buchla & saxophone story as told by Matthew Cha

Sokkyō #2 / buchla music easel

the rain feels different to everyone

Galaxy Brain

Hi-Tension

Meka

100% live synthesis on the buchla 200~

performed on October 4th, 2024 at Slingshot Festival in Durham, North Carolina

SATURDAY LINEUP:
20:30 Kaibo
21 OHMU
21:30 Rival Consoles
23:30 Matthew Cha
00 DJ Cashu
1:30 Marteka Fair

Live Buchla performance at Slingshot Festival 2024

a new Buchla modular techno performance for the very first Eklektik Elektrik showcase~!

thank you a thousand times to Xav for curating, arranging, and hosting this show, also for opening the night with a wonderful set.

Marteka Fair performed on this lineup as well and gave us a propulsive, hi-level, forward-listening show. 

I was gratified to perform my new Buchla set alongside them. even brought the saxophone out of unofficial retirement specially for this show! don't get used to it. 

LOSO was a great venue to perform in - good equipment, very good sound, great lights by Casey, and great staff, thank you all!

live buchla set at LOSO richmond | Eklektik Elektrik showcase 001

dj set at Flash 2/6/25

this is an improvisation performed live in mit's wmbr radio station. i'm very grateful to have had the opportunity to give this performance at the historic station, and am particularly grateful to William for bringing me into the fold and sharing some of the amazingly well-preserved history of wmbr, as well as some very interesting musical ideas!

Electricity Portraits - live Buchla performance | wmbr community conduit 03.13.2025

my performance on the Buchla 200 and Music Easel for Vibra DC on March 13, 2025. Had a great time running it back in a venue that has a lot of personal history for me, and heartily enjoyed the diy vibe and out-of-this-world energy during the show~

live Buchla performance for Vibra DC 03.14.2025

originally performed in quadraphonic for Heaven Dancing Club x Avant-Hard's Live in Translation. This was an incredibly special night in washington DC, conceived and executed through the tireless work of many gifted artists. VI_VI_VI built an incredible bioplastic and metal mesh art installation for the centrepiece of the stage, Dytrip manned live projections featuring integrations of a live video feed of the stage, Sophia Plancich created an evolving live painting over the course of the night, and Stoil ran an absolutely jacked-in live light show to enhance the atmosphere to truly immersive levels. 

Not a moment was left without a universe-expanding soundtrack from some of the most exciting artists in the world to me right now: Christopher Lock, San Huan, and B_X_R_N_X_R_D. full set recordings to come shortly. for now, please enjoy my contributions to the night on my beloved buchlas.

Buchla performance for Heaven Dancing Club x Avant-Hard: Live in Translation

someone described art to me as something unfinishable, something that can be added to infinitely because we don't know what's next. i really like that description. so in a twist of irony, here is "last time for everything." this piece revisits some of the earliest sequences i composed for the buchla, with expanded techniques and freer exploration of the electro organism.

last time for everything

Last Time for Everything

recorded at the meta ta physika stage at The Great Beyond '25! i am so grateful to dustin, steve and jasmine for creating and holding an ideal space to share new music, challenging ideas, collective movement, human spirit! what a beautiful fest.

Matthew Cha @ The Great Beyond '25

Kraftwerk - Computer Love (DISQO VOLANTE Remix)

Red Velvet - Dumb Dumb (DISQO VOLANTE Remix)

Track 3 from my debut EP, re: lit

available on bandcamp!

https://disqovolante.bandcamp.com/album/re-lit

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Never Said

One of my favourite songs of 2017
Raingurl by Yaeji

Raingurl [DISQO VOLANTE Remix]

written, performed, recorded, and produced by Matthew Cha

don't pretend today
'cause it won't just go away
instagram and such
maybe we could keep in touch

moods of the day
just melt away
those things you say
i want to know, i got to know

you give me pause
it's just because
if there ever comes a day
when i cannot say your name
i want to know we did more than talk

flirt, flirt, flirt
hurt, hurt, hurt
burn, burn, burn
flirt, flirt, flirt

only fair to say
baby this is not for play
i like you so much
maybe we could keep in touch

moods of the day
just melt away
those things you say
i want to know, i got to know

you give me pause
it's just because
if there ever comes a day
when i cannot say your name
i want to know we did more than talk

flirt, flirt, flirt
hurt, hurt, hurt
burn, burn, burn
flirt, flirt, flirt

Matthew Cha

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