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| RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY |
Last Name: Love |
First Name Matt |
Artist Name: Joe Swordfish, Mr Roboto, Song Poet, Knucklehead |
Address: 11015 Eckenstam Johnson Rd |
City: Anderson Island |
State: WA |
Zip: 98303 |
Country Of Residence: USA |
Date of Birth: 9/10/56 |
Phone: 253-884-9279 |
Mobile Phone: |
Fax: |
E-mail / Website: matt.mattlove1@gmail.com - http://www.soundclick.com/bands/7/mrroboto.htm |
Agent: self-represented |
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| Which of the two workshop dates are you available for? |
| 1) Have you applied for the Red Bull Music Academy before? If so, when & how often? |
| no |
2) "This is where I am in relation to the musical universe" - please draw us a map! (no worries, we're not looking for the next Michelangelo...) |
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3) How do you explain to your grandparents what it is that you do and what motivates you? |
| I go down to Madame Rue. You know, that gypsy with the gold-capped tooth. She contacts them for me, but they aren't real interested in what I have to say. They tell me things like "It's beautiful here on the other side. We're catching up with all our old friends, and we've met some new ones. We be hanging with Tupac lately. He's very nice and polite. A very snappy dresser, too. However, he's four cans short of a six pac." |
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| With sign language, and origami. |
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| I was always surrounded by music. It was just there, attacking me. Inspiration struck in the form of my father's open hand against the side of my head. "Get back to your piano lessons, or I'll smack you again," he roared between whiskey shots. It was at that point that I realized it was a life of music for me. |
6) What do you expect your average day at the Red Bull Music Academy to be like? |
| Up at 4:00 am, for a 6 mile run with a full pack. Then a half hour of Tai Chi, followed by a half-hour of silent meditation. A breakfast of brown rice. After breakfast, one-on-one ritual combat with some of the foremost hiphop artists of our era. Verbal abuse and body blows will be exchanged in attempts to develop our disses. Midmorning composition lessons with Karlheinz Stockhausen. Lunch will be hotdogs and beer. Early afternoon we will have recording and firearms lessons with Phil Spector. Late afternoon will be spent visiting the graves of famous Seattle musicians such as Ray Charles, Kurt Cobain, and Jimi Hendrix. Dinner will consist of ground glass and DDT. Evenings will be spent studying light saber techniques with a Jedi Knight, and drinking and whoring with Eddie Van Halen. |
7) And what do you reckon you'll get out of the experience personally? |
| A broken nose. |
8) Which person did you always want to play your music to? And, of course, why? |
| I always wanted to play my music to my mother, so that she would know that I am not a total loser but in fact I have made something of myself by applying myself to pursuing my craft. However, she is deaf, and so she has never heard my craft. |
9) Where did you get your musical education or comparable experiences? |
| I have learned on the job. I was in a band that once opened for Nirvana. I left before they played, but it impacted me profoundly. Two of my bands have had releases on K Records. I used to be kinda friendly with legendary Riot Grrrl strategist and drummer, Tobi Vail. I was in a band with a woman who was the girlfriend of Hole's drummer. It just goes on and on. |
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10) This bar represents you as a whole - which portions do you devote to being a DJ, musician, producer and whatnot? |
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| 11) On a scale from 0 to 10 (0 being "not at all", 10 "brilliant"), how would you rate yourself in each of the following areas? |
| Mixing: |
| Scratching: 0 |
| 3 Turntable Set-Up: 0 |
| Producing Tracks: 2 |
| Engineering: 3 |
| Live Instruments (which ones?): 4 (guitar and bass) |
| Other: Kung Fu: 2 |
| 12) Which of these skills would you like to improve, what would you like to learn about specifically? |
| Production and Engineering |
13) Do you perform music live or as a DJ? How does this sound and look like? |
| I perform music live. It looks a little like a hippo struggling to get out of an overturned rail car. Come to think of it, that's what it sounds like, too. |
14) What technical set-up do you have access to (decks/mixer/studio)? |
| I have a Gibson Grabber (Gene Simmons model) bass, a Guild electric guitar (not sure of the model, but it looks like an SG), an Ibenez acoustic guitar, an Epiphone El Capitan acoustic bass guitar. My computer is equipped with Sonar and a bunch of other programs. Sometimes mice fall into the bathtub and can't get out. |
15) Do you produce tracks ot write music? If so, what was your most recent work and how would you describe it? |
| I produce tracks and write music. Lately I have been spending much of my creative time setting poems to music, hoping to someday break into the lucrative song poem business. I would describe it as sort of like that scene in Deliverance where the hillbilly kid with the interesting genetics and the city slicker play dueling banjos, except it's like while they are playing they are dodging flaming gobs of napalm raining down from the sky, while trying to keep from spilling their drinks. |
16) If you have released any music, please let us know where, when and what was it? |
| 2 tracks on K Records, now out of print. Live performances at KAOS, taped and circulated among footbinding fans everywhere. CD-Rs distributed to radio stations KAOS, KUOW, many others - current whereabouts unknown. Also on Internet: http://www.soundclick.com/BizarroUltraband |
17) Briefly outline your career to date - include high and low points. |
| My career has ranged from the near miss, to the laughably inept outright failure. High points include organizing the first anti-gulf war (Desert Storm) show in town, and opening for Nirvana at the 2nd one a week later. The Tropicana Reunion show was another one - hundreds and hundreds of people working themselves up into a frenzy, having more fun than we ever did back in the day. Making friends with Lulina and co-writing the best song in the world with her. Jamming with the Simmons and hoping to take that to higher highs then ever before. Working with Joe Sibley on the best version of California Uber Alles ever. Low points: pretty much the rest of it. |
18) What's the last concert/live performance you saw and what did you think of it? |
| The Kairos Quartet playing Ravel's first string quartet. I was disappointed that Scott and Maria were not there (it was a little like going to see Deep Purple, and having some dork playing keyboards instead of Jon Lord - I knew that it was going to be Steve Morse instead of Richie Blackmore, which I was very cool with, but I really wanted to see Jon Lord) but I felt that the Quartet handled themselves admirably, despite being 50% adulterated. It was interesting that John Michel warned people to listen for the colors because you would not be overwhelmed by the melodies. As far as I was concerned, the melodic content was really first rate, and I was quite impressed by the deft chromaticism. In fact, I was amused with the idea that their students, the Gestalt Quartet were doing cutting edge material ("Dust in the Wind" and "Bohemian Rhapsody" - basically 19th century romanticism and Gilbert and Sullivan light opera, respectively. The Ravel was far more contemporary, challenging, and gorgeous. |
19) Some dodgy geezer invites you into his time machine: Which year and place in music history would you want to revisit and why? |
| I'd probably go back to high school, when I had a ticket to see The Who, but I wasn't able to go. I would like to go back and see that concert. |
20) Name the top three spots where you usually purchase your music: |
| www.cdbaby.com |
| www.sublimefrequencies.com |
| www.barnesandnoble.com |
21) When you enter your local record store what are the five things you do first? |
| 1. Look around to make sure nobody is watching. |
| 2.Stuff my jacket full of CDs by Four Tet, Jimmy Behan, and the Go! Team |
| 3. Empty the cash register drawers into my shopping bag. |
| 4. Write "corporate rock sucks" all over the Rolling Stone magazines |
| 5. Pee on the Britney Spears CDs
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| My record collection is organized like my brain - things are in big and small piles in every room in the house. The style that currently takes up most space and time is one of my own coinage - "Quiet Grrrls." I have discovered that chicks are playing guitars and singing all over the world. They aren't letting macho jerks or histrionic psuedo-feminists define them, they are just doing their own thing. I am trying to support some of them by helping them get into new markets and so on. |
23)Which cover version would you love to do yourself? |
| I eventually do all the cover versions that I want to do, which is nice. My next hope is to do a series of bilingual duets with Lulina. These would include: Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division) Cast Your Shadow In My Direction (Beat Happening), Heartbeat (Buddy Holly), If I Had Words (from the movie "Babe" based on Saint-Saen's Symphony #3, Opus 78) Haunted by the Ghost (Pogues and Sinead O'Connor), Love Theme from Fireball XL-5 (TV show theme) |
24) Please name your top three music related websites and forums: |
| www.soundclick.com, songwritersandpoets@yahoogroups.com, http://www.hitsquad.com/ |
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25) Do you contribute to any (music-) media? |
| I've submitted songs to independent films and cable access TV shows. No takes so far. |
26) List the music on your application cd, md or tape (please include artists, titles & labels): |
| As an innovator in the field of digital music, and the new economy, instead of sending you a physical application and hard copy medium, I am sending you this application electronically and giving you links to my current projects (in response to question number 16). |
27)Name the 10 records from your country (or city) that you definitely have to play to your fellow participants at the Why are they worth talking about? (include artists, titles & labels) |
| The Beakers (K Records) |
| The Blackouts (K Records) |
| Let's Together (K Records) |
| Days of Whine and Cheese - The Wimps- (Self Released) |
| Life Elsewhere - (Mr Brown) |
| The Intercontinentals - Bill Frisell - (some sucky corporate rock label) |
| Good Dog, Happy Man - Bill Frisell - (some sucky corporate rock label) |
| Seattle Syndrome comp. LP (engram records) |
| Amy Denio - Greatest Hits - (???) |
| Nevermind - Nirvana (Geffin) |
| The Beakers and Blackouts were two early Olympia / Seattle bands that were very important and influential. They have recently been re-released, and they sound thick and sweet. Let's Together is a sentimental favorite - early Beat Happening, Wimps, and Manta Man. The Wimps are the greatest forgotten band that Olympia produced. Life Elsewhere has amazing funky and funny early Olympia brainiac music, from a time when people would have understood that Kurt Cobain was not, in fact, an intellectual but was a confused, inarticulate, cruel and really fucked up medicrity. I had to go with Bill Frisell, as he's just great, and his album Intercontinentals has something for everybody. Seattle Syndrome has X-15 -"vaporized" and The Pudz - "take me to your leader" these songs are must listening for the uninitiated. Amy Denio is a supreme genius, and as you'd expect for one with this attribute, is severely underappreciated in the marketplace. Finally, I'd whip some Nirvana on these people, so they'd see that our weakest product has made the greatest impact. |
28) You'll do a mix for your journey to Seattle - which 10 Tracks will definitely be on there? (artists / titles / labels) |
| It's only 60 miles for me, so my mixtape will feature some short songs. |
| 1. Certainly, I'll have something by Anton Webern. He wrote the booklet on brevity. |
| 2. I Sing About Blue - Tennessee Wayne |
| 3. Temma Harbour - Mary Hopkins (Apple Records) |
| 4. 1900 Yesterday - Liz Damon and the Orient Express |
| 5. Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out) - The Hombres |
| 6. Plan 13 From Outer Space - Lulina |
| 7. Groovy Situation - Gene Chandler |
| 8. Grazing in the Grass - Friends of Distinction |
| 9. Wavelength - Van Morrison |
| 10. Back to the Island - Leon Russell |
29) What is your personal current Top Ten? (artists / titles / labels) |
| 1. Lulina |
| 2. Tennesee Wayne |
| 3. Jandek |
| 4. Vincent Knobel |
| 5. Gang of Four |
| 6. Scritti Politti |
| 7. Young Marble Giants |
| 8. Bonnie Hayes |
| 9.Fad Gadget |
| 10. Just Water |
30) Which 10 albums will you always buy again, regardless of whatever new recording format the music industry |
| 1. Who's Next - The Who |
| 2. Mysterious Traveller - Weather Report |
| 3. Relayer - Yes |
| 4. Birds of Fire - Mahavishnu Orchestra |
| 5. Low - David Bowie |
| 6. L - Steve Hillage |
| 7 Remain in Light - Talking Heads |
| 8 Abbey Road - Beatles |
| 9 England - Amazing Blondel |
| 10 Yes We Have No Mananas - Kevin Ayers |
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31) You're the DJ of the night. Sun sets over Puget Sound. The setting's perfect, the colours are amazing. Which 5 tracks |
| 1. I get a kick out of you - Cole Porter |
| 2. The Humility Of Pain - Jandek |
| 3. Old Fart at Play - Captain Beefheart |
| 4. The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot |
| 5. Little Arrows - Leapy Lee |
32) 12 hrs later. Everyone still seems to be going on strong. The sun is about to rise again. You'll have to think of another |
| This is easy! |
| Troglodyte - Jimmy Castor Bunch |
| Bolero - Ravel |
| In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly |
| Metal Machine Music - Lou Reed |
| A Kingdom He Likes - Jandek |
33) What's the title of your autobiography? |
| "Put down those sissors. Are you trying to put my eye out?" |
34) What do you collect besides records / CD's etc.? |
| Movies with the title "Plan [ ] From Outer Space." So far I have Plan 9, Plan 10, Plan 11, Shakespeare's Plan 12, and Plan 69. |
35) What's lying next to your bed? |
| My dog, Rosie, who is also the vocalist on my biggest hit, "Rosie's Lament." |
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| 37) What's the most interesting book you've read in the last 12 months? Language and Politics by Noam Chomsky |
38) What's the one thing you can't live without and why? |
| Oxygen. because I couldn't breathe without it. That's all I need. well, oxygen and food. that's all. No, wait. Oxygen and food and water. I'd be fine without anything else. except clothing. Clothing and shoes. I might be able to get along with one shoe. but not no shoes. and shelter. yes, in this climate I need at least a cave. A cave and some fire. and food, and water and oxygen and clothing, and a shoe or two. that's all can't live without. |
39) What are your three favourite movies? |
| Ishtar |
| Mystery Men |
| The Incredibles |
40) What's the funniest thing that ever happened to you? |
| I smoked some pot, and then I took a hit of Nitrous Oxide. I couldn't stop laughing, that's the truth I swear to god. |
41) If you have traveled, which places and countries did you like best? And, of course, why? |
| The Aran Islands of Ireland. I like Ireland because they've never conquered anybody. They've spent 500 years under the bootheel. I understand how they feel. The Aran Islands are my favorite place in Ireland because they are so remote and so isolated that when you are there you can imagine that the entire world has been destroyed by nuclear war, which would probably be a good thing, for the most part. |
42) Which records make you cry and why? |
| Nirvana records make me cry because they are so fucking lame and that fame rightfully belongs to me. |
43) And while we're on the subject of sobbing, when was the last time you cried anyways? |
| I remember it like it was yesterday. When I read about his widowed bride, something touched me deep inside the day the Music Died |
44) What is better than music? |
| Farting |
45) What was your most significant experience of the last 12 months? |
| Jamming with Mark and Tim Simmons a couple of days ago. It was fucking awesome! |
46) What are the first things that come to your mind when you think about the Emerlad City Seattle? |
| I think of the Wizlard of Zo, and then I think of Micorsotf, and then I thor urp! |
47) What's your favourite record that was made in Seattle? |
| "Here Come The Brides" by Perry Como |
48) Which three people from Seattle have changed your world? Tell us why! |
| Amy Denio - she broke my heart |
| Elizabeth Loftus - Because she's so smart |
| Timothy Brock - He was in the Fartz! |
49) What is your day job? |
| I'm a nose inspector. I pick the best ones. |
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I'm a little tired, I'm sort of sad, I'm pessimistic about the future and my feet itch. |
51) How did you find out about this academy? (friend/former applicant/former participant/Music Academy representative/Red Bull representative/Agent/Radio/TV/ Magazine or newspaper/CD-Rom/Internet (which website?)/Red Bull Music Academy Info Session/Other Red Bull Event (which?)/Record Store? |
| Lulina, the greatest artist in Brazil, told me about it. |
52) What did you do when you found out about it? |
| I fell to my knees and I prayed. |
53) After completing this questionnaire, make up your own question and answer it. |
| Q: Do you think some of these questions were a bit personal and off the subject? |
| A: Yes |
If you have any questions, please contact your local Red Bull Music Academy representative (check http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/ for details), or email us at info@redbullmusicacademy.com. You will be notified by phone / email on July 29, 2005 if you are accepted as a candidate. If not, you will be notified by email. So please, do double check that all your details on the front page are correct and written legibly. If your uncle can read them chances are we can, too. And good luck - we're looking forward to welcoming you to Seattle this Noveber. |
Dear Sir or Ms:
I have attached my application form for the Red Bull Music Academy in
Seattle. Being the forward looking cybernetic artist that I am, I am
submitting my application in electronic from, and providing links to
some of my music, which is available online. Most of my best music is,
anyway.
I am not certain that all the graphics will survive their journey
through the wormhole of googlespace, so I have also posted the
document online. You can view it at:
http://home.earthlink.net/~mattlove1/ApplicationForm.htm
Thank you for your consideration, I am looking forward to meeting
talented artists from all over the world.
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