The Oak Creek Ensemble guest conducted live at Circle A in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, January 10, 2015.
One of three album preview pieces.
(a previous, studio recording of Oak Creek Ensemble:
https://soundcloud.com/wilhelm-matthies/sets/first-gathering)

Download here, (pay as you wish):
https://darkpebble-bluewave.bandcamp.com/

Thanks!
Wilhelm Matthies
Mattthias Boss
John Daly
Paulo Chagas


OCE - Live At Circle A (3)

Music and things that might sound like music by Mat Ward. Noise Art/A  Piano and Bass Duet with Dani Kirby/A 50 plus member Art Ensemble called Then She Reaches The Gun/Deep Research Into Luigi Russolo and his Intonarumori .. thats just the stuff I post regularly : ) Thanks to everyone thats ever stopped by. Music is The Best!

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.

I love listening to ambient music.
I only use a free VST synths and effects.
Big fan of good free software.


*Thank you all for your kind support*

Happy 2025

I share music that I have made here solo or in groups. I am bundling my work with some online friends as a project oriented, micro-collective. We are happy to share with you!

https://darkpebble-bluewave.bandcamp.com/

Wilhelm Mattthies, John Daly (aka Tuneind52), Paulo Chagas and Matthias Boss

All music by David Mackenzie, except as indicated. Debut album, D.M.T., is the six tracks with the iTunes links. I'm open for collaborations, so message me if you wish to collaborate.

Zap-Pascal is a musician who play accordion, electronic, flute, and use other sounds from his imagination, in solo and in groups since the eighties of the last century... Previously, he played saxophone, slide trombone.

Different experiences between folk tunes, jazz, classical, contemporary, electronic & art - rock music give him large possibilities to explore sounds with himself & other musicians !

- His last live and studo side project is LOCUSTA MIGRATORIA



The author Nniet Brovdi G. V. goes through the birth and the growth, from the Seventies, of the Dark-Punk, Post Punk movement, generating works of art which are highly performing and perpetually changing. Composer,writer, performer and professionally involved with video art, Brovdi sums up in his work also the development of the historic movement with a particular reference to Body Art and to all performative aspects in progress. His production is included in the reflection focused on past times and future ones, fully falling into line with the international current of the synthesis of physical art, like that of Punk and all the culture of behaviour related to the humiliation and glorification of the body, like a pleasant sublimation of oneself existential life.(Courtesy CACT- Contemporary Art Centre of Ticino - Switzerland)
Multimedia Artist: performance, videoart, poet, bodyart music-voice,(He plays:voice, piano,pipe-organ, sax, clarinet, guitar,electronics)/​ digital images, photographia, writing, pictures &amp; other___



UK creatives should listen to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK4wBWiozyM

You must hear this: https://vimeo.com/52766051

*****

Ed Brunsden was kind and patient enough to interview me for  his blog Desert... Mountain... Dust...  - you can read it at https://desertmountaindust.blogspot.com.au/2017/02/tuonela-primitive-progressive.html

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~ Aldous Huxley

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. ~ Jean Cocteau

All music is beautiful. ~ Billy Strayhorn
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I've become addicted to drone. Again. I was the kid with his head on the piano, listening to the overtones die away, or pressing his ear to the steel hull of the ferry, enthralled by the sounds it created. I was the kid who formed wordless songs to accompany the sound of train wheels on a long journey, or hummed along with the fan on a hot day.

In the 60s I used to play my 45s on 16, or backwards, or by hand using razor blades as stylii.

I made cut-up tapes on a cheap cassette recorder in the 70s and experimented with reel-to-reel in the 80s. 

Thank you Subotnick, Lygeti, Coltrane, Jimi, Mimaroglu, Eno, Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, Throbbing Gristle...

I am not a musician. I am a scavenger of sounds. I use the most basic software to process those sounds, stretching and filtering until something emerges that makes a joyful noise. Or not...