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Meet Adam Matta, one-man music machine
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Interview
“Beatboxing is blowing up worldwide; there’s a lot of guys coming out with really interesting sounds,” says Adam Matta.
At his Jan. 28 Jepson Center performance, Adam Matta will take art and technology – the two Pulse Festival buzzwords – and combine them in mind–blowing ways. Which, you’ll wonder, is the art, and which is the tech? Ah, but there’s the rub. Matta is a beatboxer, using his voice and a microphone to create the sounds of a full drum kit – he doesn’t sound at all like a synthetic drum machine – in its myriad poly–rhythmic patterns. That’s organic, right?
At Pulse, he’ll appear onstage with a bicycle wheel mounted on a pedestal. There’s a loop of recording tape stretched over the outside of the wheel. When the tape comes in contact with a playback head, the sound is amplified. Matta edges the bike wheel back and
forth like a turntable, creating an audio scratch right out of hip hop. He has a loop pedal on the floor in front of him, which allows him to record his beatbox vocal percussion, layer it, add bass (he’s good at that, too) and then add more live sounds. It’s a kind of abstract impressionism, a riff on streetcorner beatboxing that elevates one art form into the realm of another. Based in New York, Matta has had solo shows at the New Museum for Contemporary Art, Galapagos, PS 122,