Oxtail Recordings returns to our hometown to celebrate 10 years of ambient noise and broken songs, with a showcase of label artists and NYC DIY legends.
More Eaze more eaze is the project of composer/multi-instrumentalist mari maurice. her work touches upon myriad genres and often explores themes of gender, intimacy, identity, perception, and the mundane. resident advisor categorizes maurice’s work as “accomplished ambient pop” and the quietus has said that her work “unearths a raw poignancy in what can often be a coldly academic field.” https://moreeaze.bandcamp.com https://oxtailrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/0utside https://www.instagram.com/more_eaze
MF Clarke Melissa F. Clarke is a Brooklyn based interdisciplinary artist whose work often employs generative and interactive custom-programmed environments. In much of her work she combines research and data into multimedia installations, interactive web pieces, generative video and sound sculptures, performances and printed work. Since 2009 Clarke has been working with bathymetric and other geophysical data sets studying glaciers and the under water landscapes they shaped. Melissa’s recorded debut Arrays will be released on Oxtail Recordings on September 20. http://melissafclarke.net https://www.instagram.com/m_f_clarke
Matthew Ryals Matthew Ryals is a synthesist + composer-improviser based in New York, NY. Primarily working with a modular synthesizer, his music encompasses improvisation, generative composition, chance, cybernetics, unfixed forms, and experiments in manifold archiving. Tiny Mix Tapes has described his music as “filter[ing] the emotion of the human experience through the cold circuitry of electronics”. https://www.matthewryals.com https://matthewryals.bandcamp.com/album/voltage-scores-3 https://www.instagram.com/matthewryals
Matthew D. Gantt Matthew D. Gantt is an artist, composer, and educator focused on sound in virtual spaces, generative systems facilitated by idiosyncratic technology, and digital production presets as sonic readymades. He worked as a studio assistant to electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick, and has been an active participant in the international creative community and countless DIY venues across North America. https://oxtailrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/isomorphs https://www.instagram.com/gan.tttt
Mike Nigro Mike Nigro is a musician and label operator based in Sydney, Australia (previously Brooklyn, NY and Newark, Delaware). His solo practice and collaborations draw inspiration from the minimalists, early synthesizer pioneers, and contemporary experimental underground. His work explores the spaces between musicality and noise; movement and stasis; synthetics and organics. He’s also the founder of Oxtail Recordings, a record label focusing on “ambient noise and broken songs,” which Bandcamp Daily says has“cemented its place as a forward-thinking resource for a community of left-field musicians”. https://mikenigro.bandcamp.com https://www.instagram.com/mnigro
