Matt Marks Music

 
So I’m doing a small presentation on my upcoming post-Christian nihilist pop-opera, The Little Death, at a Live Arts Collaboration Salon – this coming Monday 11/30 at 7pm. I’m excited for a few reasons: A. I get to talk about myself (and what narcissistic artist doesn’t get off on that?); B. I’m going to perform [...]

If you are in and around New York on Saturday, Mellissa Hughes and my new variety show – The Melly and Mafoo Variety Hour – will be playing a set at The Gershwin Hotel at 8:00pm. The show – being run by our good friend and colleague, Alex Temple – is titled The Secret Life [...]

Well, it’s not exactly new.. But it will be to some of you, and there is a fantastic new music video, and a feature on todays All Things Considered on NPR! Timberbrit is a very unique opera by composer Jacob Cooper that creates a fictional tragic narrative of the lives of Britney Spears and Justin [...]

I’ve added a couple of additions to the Music page. First is High Fructose, a piece I wrote for Joshua Roman’s Seattle Town Hall concert series. It’s an odd piece, very difficult (though not intentionally so!), and the quartet rocked the hell out of it. The piece is about the composition process, as I attempted [...]

One of the pieces I did for Alarm Will Sound’s upcoming shows at Le Poisson Rouge (6:30 and 10:30pm, next Wednesday, 7/22/09) is an arrangement of a piece by Bay Area breakcore artist Preshish Moments called whydobirds. I had been wanting to do a track of his for a while, for a variety of [...]

So I’ve moved everything from Blogger over here to my new WordPress site and set up some new stuff. The largest addition is the music page. There are a ton of new tracks and recordings up, spanning the last five years or so. If there’s anything I left out that you’d like me to put [...]

Yo, check out this awesome story in the NJ Star-Ledger about badass composer, and friend, David T. Little:
“I grew up very much outside of the classical tradition, not really knowing that it existed, not knowing that composers existed or that people still wrote music,” Little reflects.
At first, classical music, particularly Mozart, felt foreign and false. [...]

I don’t know how to tell you how much I love these guys.

Hey folkies, I’ll be performing a live remix of Rhapsody in Blue tomorrow (Wednesday, July 8th – 6:30) @ The Greene Space in NYC for the 85th anniversary of WNYC. If you’re around please come check it out, tickets are FREE! :)
If for some reason you cannot make it – out of town, in hospital [...]

Yeah, I haven’t really been blogging too much here of late. It’s for a couple of reasons: 1. I haven’t really been in the rantacular kinda place recently, where a morning’s angst is translated into an epic blogpost either pro or con something on this Earth; and 2. I’ve been doing most of my micro-blogging [...]