Silence is Golden - Matt Warren
Opening - 12:00 AM - Friday, 3rd of June
Artist Talk - 6:00 PM
Running - 3 Jun 2011 - 20 Jun 2011
Born in Burnie, Tasmania. Relocated to Hobart in 1991 to study visual art at University of Tasmania's Centre for the Arts, emerging in 1995 with Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and a Graduate Diploma in Art Craft & Design. Working primarily in time-based media, Matt creates installations, single channel video, audio works, and performance. His work investigates memory, transcendence and suspension of disbelief.In 1999 Matt received an Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship to undertake Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice research at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. Other awards received include the Marie Edwards Travelling Scholarship (2008) Australian Postgraduate Award (2006) and the New Media Skills and Arts Development grant from Australia Council for the Arts (2003), with which he travelled to Germany to undertake research into Germany Expressionist cinema and Krautrock, the latter being the subject of a documentary, Stoic Rhythms - A Krautrock Fan's Journey. He has also created a documentary about Canadian electronic musician/composer Jean-Yves Thériault (2000) and an audio/radio documentary about UK musician/composer Mick Harris (2008).Matt has exhibited in Sydney, Melbourne, Vancouver, Montreal, Tábor; Czech Republic, New Zealand and throughout Tasmania. He has held residencies with Jean-Yves Thériault in Montreal, Canada, with Damo Suzuki in Cologne, Germany and at Raw Space in Brisbane as well as multiple residencies at CESTA (Czech Republic).Within his visual, aural and performance practice Matt has collaborated with Sean Bacon, Edward Colless, Concrete Lung, Scot Cotterell Eli Crews, Tom Hall, Leigh Hobba, Beth Lisick, Deborah Pollard, Sally Rees, Lena Stuart, Damo Suzuki, Jean-Yves Thériault and John Vella amongst others.
Matt's music and sound activities include the solo projects mumble(speak) (which undertook an Australian tour in 2010), Broken Tiny, the improvisational electronic music trio TRIAD (2009 Australian tour), collaboration with Scot Cotterell called dÜo the psyche/drone duo Untermorast and the industrial/metal duo M.O.I.O (Machines Of Indeterminate Origin). In 2009 he completed PhD research in time-based media at UTAS. Matt lives and works in Hobart.
mumble(speak) National Tour 2010 - Matt Warren
Opening - 12:00 AM - Sunday, 27th of June
Artist Talk - 7:00 PM
Running - 27 Jun 2010 - 27 Jun 2010
FELTspace has the pleasure of hosting Matt Warren with his mumble(speak) performance/national tour.
DOORS OPEN AT 7:00PM with a $5 Dollar door charge_ HOW CHEAP IS THAT!!! So please come on down and support local arts culture with a drink or two and enjoy the performance on hand!
Industrial hums, subterranean rumbles from the earth, voices uttered in hushed tones (like the sound of a memory as an internal dialogue) and the search for pieces of melody amongst the murk.
A short bio of Matt and mumble(speak) Hobart based artist and musician Matt Warren started this solo act mumble(speak) as a 'mood' project alongside his Broken Tiny (distorted beats/power electronics) and Time Office (shoegaze/melodic rock) projects in 2007. This soon became his main solo project.
Influenced by the sound design of Alan Splet and David Lynch, the dark ambient project from Mick Harris called LULL and the expansive soundscapes of Brian Eno, mumble(speak) has evolved over this short period, utilising sampled drones and voice, effected live guitar and vocals and in some cases video components.
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